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A blinding light starts to come from all over it and then suddenly ............oh wait that's Dr Who!
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Right ! We've always blamed the dog.
(Whilst casting sideways glances at each other)
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So the hunt is on for the elusive green regen light
The first to have it gets a years free subscription to Disco5.co.uk
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How many times did the stop/start activate on your way out?
Resetting the service counter clearly doesn't erase any memory that's used to estimate the distance to next service. Otherwise one would expect the counter to read 16,000 miles immediately after reset.
It's an estimation only...one reason why I plan to test my oil. If the actual dilution is well under 6% then the service counter could have a problem. Which would be good news, I think.
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VeryDisco5 wrote:
The dealer who said 30 minutes needs some re-training. According to JLR's own guidance the DPF needs regular drives of over an hour to keep it in good shape.
This after an update to my iGuide:
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chicken george wrote:
Thats just very disco exagerating everything to the max as usual. Take his info with a large pinch of salt. Or read it in a salt mine.
That iguide text looks to be identical to the DS handbook: just the standard boilerplate advice for DPFs. The problem for the DS and D5, though, is that in the real-world active regenerations take much longer than expected which is why we are all saddled with excessive post-injection, oil dilution and early service requests. JLR would like you to believe this is caused by your driving style. Or the fairies. Anything but a design fault.
Perhaps internally they know full well what the problem is but they can't ever change the documentation as that would be an admission that a general fault exists. However, in an unguarded moment, an executive office manager sent me a letter quoting advice that had presumably come straight from engineering without first being checked by the politburo. In a propaganda war this is the sort of thing that gives people the opportunity to judge for themselves whether the company always tells the whole truth. Read alongside JLRP00100, it looks very much as though like there is a consistent, rational explanation exists for the issue.
I stress that this was written in relation to the L550 - not the L462. But when the end-users of both vehicles are experiencing the same problem, both also included in JLRP00100 - worse on the D5 from what I have read - what else to conclude?
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