--- title: Woodthorpe: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank, Explained canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/woodthorpe-leicestershire/ location: Woodthorpe county: Leicestershire latitude: 52.751390 longitude: -1.196790 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-19 --- # Woodthorpe: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It? If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Around Woodthorpe, catching it before the motor turns normally means a drain and a full flush on the spot. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the page covers the reasons it takes place and the how to avoid it for good. ## AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers No single liquid but two: that's how many modern diesels around Woodthorpe and Loughborough carry, with diesel feeding the engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own. Each tank has its own filler. Some vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have the two side by side behind one flap. Diesel gets filled on every forecourt visit, week in, week out. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think what filler to use. Mistakes happen in that gap between them. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank around Woodthorpe: how it takes place It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up. On a driveway off Allendale Road before work, or in the car park outside The Beacon Inn heading home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car tells you, and if it is empty, limp mode kicks in. The old car's cap is where your hand goes — but a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: a new motor. Third, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in as easily, and once the tip begins, no part stops it. It takes a few seconds, whether in Shelthorpe or bang in the heart of Woodthorpe. ## Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel? A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Woodhouse Eaves or a forecourt in Woodthorpe. - Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not where it sits. - Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two. - The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where. - In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which. - The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Loughborough, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Leicestershire that is. - Switch off once parked — flat ground, motor off, and not rushed by Braid Close at the roadside. - Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have located your filler and read the cap. - If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on. - Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty. - Close the cap and check again. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car. Find at the second or third step that AdBlue went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Leave out stage five entirely. ## Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Woodthorpe already? What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting your engine. Leave your ignition off as well, because on plenty of diesels switching it on alone runs your pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, just where fuel is drawn from. Ask the attendants to help roll the car away from the pump if you are at a forecourt — the Tesco Extra, the Texaco or somewhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in Woodthorpe. Where your engine has been run by now, pull over safely and switch the car off. Woodthorpe lies under 5 miles from the M1; there, take the next exit. Mileage counts — a short hop across Woodthorpe makes a smaller job than driving under 10 miles to Leicester — so say about how far it went. ## Our arrival in Woodthorpe, and what happens next Outside Outwoods Edge Primary School, near The Good Shepherd or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, we come to it. Both the work and our price depend on three answers — what fluid, which amount, and if it's run — so we ask. You get that price on the phone, before anyone heads out. The fuel system is then flushed thoroughly, once that tank is cleared. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. That is why it matters more. After the filter is cleaned — or replaced, where required — clean diesel is added, and then the vehicle is tested. After that we fire it up and confirm it runs correctly before leaving. If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It is worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies. ## About Woodthorpe and where it is Woodthorpe is a small hamlet in Leicestershire, situated inland at an elevation of around 60 metres, approximately 8.6 miles from Leicester. Woodthorpe lies near the villages of Shelthorpe, Quorndon, and Woodhouse, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing. Woodthorpe is a relatively small community, with a population of around 1058 residents, and is located about 97.2 miles northwest of London. ## AdBlue drains across Leicestershire, Woodthorpe included As a rural hamlet, Woodthorpe has the same vans as surrounding places — Quorndon, Woodhouse — right through LE postcodes and the surrounding area around them. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting LE12 8. The vehicle remains where it is. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near Sacred Heart Catholic Church, a lay-by on the way to Shelthorpe Golf Course (Pitch & Putt), a drive. Tricky to explain, like the back of School Library? Close to a border? Checking is better than guessing, so ring. ## In short, for Woodthorpe people First, the cap; after that, the pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave the car off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across Leicestershire.