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• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• Unless they've invested in expensive laboratory equipment (GC/MS) JLR dealers still have to rely on the car's own estimate of the dilution percentage, based on the post-injection activity log. Any tim ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 22nd Jun 2018 6:27 am Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• UK owners should contact [url=http://www.millersoils.co.uk/services/oil-analysis]Millers Oils of Brighouse, Yorkshire who offer an excellent service with diesel dilution reported to 1 decimal place. ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 1st Jun 2018 8:55 pm Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• Beware Wikipedia.
  
  SCR is a proven technology on diesel locomotives, ships, and heavy-fuel-fired power plants and industrial generators. Cummins, Ford and GM have been doing it legally in the US ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 23rd May 2018 10:29 pm Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• perhaps they had to make some hasty changes to their software to ensure it functions 100% of the time, rather than just the first 22 minutes of driving, but I have no proof of this.
  A potential lin ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 23rd May 2018 12:25 am Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• The TD6 engine has been dropped

• I've just read the P400e review and, already being a big fan of petrol-electric hybrids, I have to say it sounds like a fantastic driving experience, with some very clever touches like look-ahead terr ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 36 Views: 34818 Forum:General Posted: 20th May 2018 8:55 am Subject: The TD6 engine has been dropped

• The TD6 engine has been dropped

• I suspect it's there to give the L-405 a theoretical entry-level price close to £80K (£80,035) while just £6,930 more buys the impressive 2.0 Litre P400e Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (404HP), a ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 36 Views: 34818 Forum:General Posted: 20th May 2018 8:22 am Subject: The TD6 engine has been dropped

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• DR, with 2 turbos will they have two separate exhaust streams a bit like we were discussing? That would go a long way towards sorting things out with the post-injection, if heat does turn out to be pa ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 15th May 2018 1:19 pm Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• Regarding twin turbos, the following thread contains an unconfirmed report that TDV6 has now been dropped.
  
  https://disco5.co.uk/forum/thread1227.html
  
  Edit. Confirmed the following 3.0L diesel op ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 15th May 2018 8:19 am Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• Some good ideas there DR, as you say it is probably down to a combination of factors. My dealer said as much regarding the prospect of finding a solution - a little bit here, a little bit there. It al ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 14th May 2018 11:16 pm Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• VD5, it appears to be widely acknowledged that this issue doesn't apply to the D5 2.0 Ingenium .....so as this is a D5 site you are giving site users \ potential purchasers the impression that there ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 14th May 2018 12:51 pm Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

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  #4 is a presumption not yet supported by evidence - i.e., results from oil testing from D5 TD6 engines. In other words, the system believes oil dilution is occurring based on an estimation the real ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 14th May 2018 12:19 pm Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• Apples and Oranges? Well, Yes and No, so humour me for a moment and follow a train of thought to see where it leads...
  
  Focussing on the similarities between the cars' exhaust problems we'd get a l ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 13th May 2018 6:22 am Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• CG said "Yes and you are taking their worst case scenario as a minimum requirement"
  
  I believe, and engineers have confirmed, that the DOC lights up on demand and then takes 10 to 15 minut ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 13th May 2018 12:08 am Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• As we have been told, it all depends on driving style. I suspect they are being careful to define a journey mix which they know guarantees that the AR will complete. For everyone.
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 12th May 2018 3:21 pm Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• Because normal driving doesn't invoke passive regeneration this is the driving pattern that's needed to guarantee a complete active regeneration on the L550. Whether it's done before or after the filt ...
VeryDisco5 Replies: 718 Views: 646365 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 12th May 2018 11:55 am Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?