--- title: Explained: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Upper Burgate canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/upper-burgate-hampshire/ location: Upper Burgate county: Hampshire latitude: 50.946240 longitude: -1.782580 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-20 --- # Upper Burgate: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It? Pause here a minute if the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, done right where the vehicle stands around Upper Burgate, is normally all it needs when caught before the motor runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't. ## Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler? Plenty of newer diesels around Outwick, like those in Upper Burgate, carry on two liquids; the motor takes only the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust stream and cleans it. Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives. ## How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs around Upper Burgate Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things lining up together. Haste comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Salisbury Road, or heading home in the car park outside Bat and Ball. Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one. A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, keeps on. It's seconds, be it in Lower Burgate or bang in the centre of Upper Burgate. ## How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Breamore or a forecourt in Upper Burgate. - Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually don't. - Many cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two. - A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many motors. Check for it. - In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which. - The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Salisbury, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up On the day the light appears — wherever you are around Hampshire — a routine to use. - Not in a rush on the side of A338, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off first. - Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It seems silly. It does the trick. - The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, confirm it is closed before lifting the bottle. - Finish once that tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour gently through its built-in spout. - Shut the cap, then check again — making sure your diesel cap stayed shut throughout. Only then, start your car. If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Never go on to step five. ## Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Upper Burgate already? Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition goes on — and so keep it off. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it. If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Harvest Energy or the Esso, ask the attendants to help push the car away from the pump. If you are on your own drive around Upper Burgate, leave the vehicle where it sits. When the motor has been run already, pull over somewhere safe and turn the vehicle off. The next exit means where to leave if you're on the M27, under 10 miles from Upper Burgate. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Salisbury, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Upper Burgate. ## Upper Burgate: what takes place when we arrive Our technicians come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Fordingbridge Junior School, close to Amphitheatre or on your own drive. Both the work and the quote rest on three answers — which liquid, which quantity, and whether it has run — so we ask. That price comes on the call, before any van leaves. The fuel system is then flushed thoroughly, once the tank is drained. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Next our engineers start the engine and make sure it runs properly before we go. If the engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours. ## About Upper Burgate itself Upper Burgate is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Hampshire, with an elevation of 31 metres above sea level. Upper Burgate lies near the city of Salisbury, approximately 8.6 miles away, and is part of a network of small settlements including Lower Burgate and Tinkers Cross. Upper Burgate is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and quiet rural setting. Upper Burgate is located in the South East region of England, about 81.4 miles from London. ## AdBlue drains around Upper Burgate and across Hampshire Upper Burgate is a rural hamlet, and the teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Tinkers Cross and Flood Street among them, across the SP postcode area. Quote a postcode that starts SP6 1, and our van arrives fastest. The vehicle doesn't need to shift. Draining takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a road by Hulse Hall, or a layby on the way to Back Field. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Burgate Manor? By a county line? Checking is better than guessing, so phone. ## For Upper Burgate drivers, the short version Pour no AdBlue till you've read the cap. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it stands, anywhere around Hampshire: switch it off and ring 0333 366 0103.