SQ5 - Adblue or not??

[Damp Logs]

Hi
Have been looking at replacing my A4 with a SQ5, but heard horror stories about Adblue consumption and cars failing to start.
I have read somewhere that SQ5 doesn't use Adblue, but the ones I have looked at all had it.

Did I read wrong, or has the engine changed?? If so, when did it changed?

Thanks in advance

[rassi]

My A6 BiTDI has the same 313 bhp engine as the SQ5, and there is no AdBlue fill. This changed with the "upgrade" to the facelift A6 320 bhp engine, and I always thought that the SQ5 was the same, non AdBlue engine. Not very helpful, but strange if they made a difference between the two models.

[Damp Logs]

Thanks

Any idea when the upgrade/facelift happened?

[rassi]

Damp Logs said:

Thanks

Any idea when the upgrade/facelift happened?

The A6 was face lifted mid 2015

[Damp Logs]

Great, thanks

[kent_phil]

Not the same car but had Ad-Blue on our recent Q7 and it wasn't ever that much of a bother.

It gave 1,500 miles warning that it was running out and had to fill it up every 8,000 miles or so.

The local BP garage has an Ad-Blue pump, the nozzle for filling was next to the diesel fuel cap - took two minutes at 60p a litre to fill it up.

I have heard some stories about the first cars to use it not being anywhere as well integrated, having to fill up through a nozzle in the boot for example - so check where the filler is first.

Cheers,

Phil