--- title: Explained: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Winsick canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/winsick-derbyshire/ location: Winsick county: Derbyshire latitude: 53.213650 longitude: -1.394330 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-15 --- # How It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Winsick Keep your motor and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Around Winsick, catching it before the motor runs normally leaves draining and a full flush where it stands. Reading before the event? In that case what follows explains how it happens and what to stop it ever happening. ## AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers Many modern diesels around Calow Green, like those in Winsick, run on two fluids; the motor takes just the diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust stream and cleans it. There's a filler for every tank. Some vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have both side by side behind one flap. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between the two. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank in Winsick: how it happens Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things lining up at once. First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the car, and running dry leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Mansfield Road, or at Three Cottages on the way home that evening. Next, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old motor — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not. No part stops the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes a few seconds, whether in Milehill or right in the centre of Winsick. ## Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel? A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Grassmoor or a forecourt in Winsick. - Position can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not. - The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two. - A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it. - Cannot see it beside your diesel inlet? In that case check below the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook will say which. - The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Chesterfield, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank Wherever around Derbyshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day. - Turn off after you park — flat ground, engine stopped, and never in a rush by Telmere Lodge at the roadside. - Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have found your filler and read the cap. - The two behind one flap? Then make sure the cap on your diesel filler is still closed before lifting the bottle. - Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle runs out. - Before starting your car, close the cap and look again that the diesel cap never came off. Find during the second or third step that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Never go on to stage five. ## Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Winsick? Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is drawn from. Ask the attendants to help roll your car clear of the pump if you are at a forecourt — the BP, the another forecourt nearby or somewhere else. Your own driveway around Winsick is where it stays. If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Come off the M1 — under 3 miles out of Winsick — at the first exit. A short hop across Winsick is a smaller job than a run towards Sheffield, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went. ## Winsick: what takes place when our technicians turn up By Hasland Junior School, close to St Pauls Church or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. Those answers settle this work and our price, so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it has run. During the call itself, you hear the quote — before dispatch. Emptying your tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the fuel system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. Filter flushed or, where needed, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a test of your car. Then our engineers start the engine and check it runs properly before leaving. With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine has not run need roughly half an hour once our technicians arrive. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. It is worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies. ## About Winsick, briefly Winsick is a suburban area in Derbyshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 101 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Winsick lies approximately 12 miles from Sheffield and is surrounded by nearby places such as Milehill, Corbriggs, and Hasland. Winsick has a population of around 1105 residents and is located in the East Midlands region, about 129 miles from London. ## AdBlue drains around Winsick and across Derbyshire Winsick is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the places around it, Corbriggs and Hasland among them, across the S postcode area. A postcode starting S41 0 gets the van to you fastest. There's no need to shift your car. Wherever it sits — beside Hasland Methodist Church, on a lay-by heading to Monkey Park, on a drive — that's where it gets drained. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of The Playhouse, ring and ask rather than guessing. ## The short version for Winsick drivers Pour nothing until you have read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere in Derbyshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — so leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103.