Land Rover Evoque AdBlue problems
Discussion
If you've got an 2015/17 Evoque BE WARNED! the new ingenium engined cars are fitted with a DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) system.
On the above models a common fault had been noticed, that being, if you refill the DEF reservoir yourself you will probably trigger a fault (inferior DEF fluid detected). This fault can sometimes be reset via a diagnostic scanner, but often needs to have the tank drained, refilled, pressurised and reset, this can be quite expensive (Guy Salmon, wanted £180 for the initial diagnostic check and then 2 hours labour at £180 per hour to rectify the fault).
Halfords have looked into this AdBlue (major DEF brand) issue because customers have mention this fault occurring when using their own labelled AdBlue.
They asked a number of Land Rover main agents around the country about the issue and were told it is a common fault on this car which was rectified on the 2017/18 models.
However, that doesn't do much to help the rest of us with the earlier models and as they are now coming out of warranty, that, could be an expensive pill to swallow.
Apparently on pre-modified cars the AdBlue has to be added very slowly and not in great quantity (approx 8 ltrs after refill warning).
What I'm concerned about, as I'm sure many others will be, if Land Rover knows this problem exists (hence system design change) why don't they recall the non modified cars and not leave the owners open to unnecessary worry and expense (plus a potentially lower resale value).
Halfords also asked the dealers if Land Rover's own label AdBlue was a superior product to Halfords own label product and were assured that there was no difference. So don't be fooled into thinking you should pay the usually much higher priced Land Rover stuff.
Please pass this information on to other interested parties, it may jolt Land Rover to do the decent thing.
On the above models a common fault had been noticed, that being, if you refill the DEF reservoir yourself you will probably trigger a fault (inferior DEF fluid detected). This fault can sometimes be reset via a diagnostic scanner, but often needs to have the tank drained, refilled, pressurised and reset, this can be quite expensive (Guy Salmon, wanted £180 for the initial diagnostic check and then 2 hours labour at £180 per hour to rectify the fault).
Halfords have looked into this AdBlue (major DEF brand) issue because customers have mention this fault occurring when using their own labelled AdBlue.
They asked a number of Land Rover main agents around the country about the issue and were told it is a common fault on this car which was rectified on the 2017/18 models.
However, that doesn't do much to help the rest of us with the earlier models and as they are now coming out of warranty, that, could be an expensive pill to swallow.
Apparently on pre-modified cars the AdBlue has to be added very slowly and not in great quantity (approx 8 ltrs after refill warning).
What I'm concerned about, as I'm sure many others will be, if Land Rover knows this problem exists (hence system design change) why don't they recall the non modified cars and not leave the owners open to unnecessary worry and expense (plus a potentially lower resale value).
Halfords also asked the dealers if Land Rover's own label AdBlue was a superior product to Halfords own label product and were assured that there was no difference. So don't be fooled into thinking you should pay the usually much higher priced Land Rover stuff.
Please pass this information on to other interested parties, it may jolt Land Rover to do the decent thing.
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