chicken george wrote:

...if you post anything bad it is eagerly lapped up and exaggerated further. Attempts to try and correct any non facts gets you labelled as a trouble causer. Then when you finally get your point across tbe conversation gets steered back to the original non truth within days.

There are issues with oil dilution but this is not unique in modern diesels struggling to achieve euro6. And LR are doing the extra oil changes needed at no cost.

Agreed but, unfortunately, not unique to the DS Forum.

There’s a recent example of a certain engine fault that’s happened with a small number of examples of a popular LR model. Along with a small number of people who have experienced it, there’s a much greater number who have no experience of it at all, but seem to enjoy being “in” on the issue and will weep and wail with cries of righteous indignation until the only apparent solution is that every single person in LR Customer Services is burnt at the stake! Okay, I exaggerate, but you get the idea...

Unfortunately, these people, just like a pathogenic virus, then thrive on being the first to break the news on other websites where nobody’s even heard of the issue.

While these people seem to get a kick out of it, it leaves owners who have no need to worry, worried silly and a manufacturer with a needlessly damaged reputation and some hardworking people’s livelihoods at risk ☹️ Heck, even the perpetrators risk the resale of their own cars, so it’s a little lemming like really

downloaded service bulletins from topix are treated as if the posted has an insider in LR leaking him secret information via the watergate hotel. At work
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Tigger wrote:

@ Chicken George - by “SRCF”, May I take that you mean the Selective Reduction Catalyst? If that’s the case, the the SRC is completely different to a DPF, in that it uses urea solution (trade name AdBlue) to convert harmful nitrogen oxides into nitrogen, water and and CO2.

https://www.dieselforum.org/about-clean-diesel/what-is-scr

It does not need regeneration.

A DPF traps diesel particulates and then burns them at high temperatures. This does require regeneration.

No its an scrf , a combined particulate filter and nox treatment in one box, adblue is added before this box (after the DOC)

adblue is actually used as a catalyst to break down the particulates as well as converting the NOx

A system also used for many John Deere tractor engines as it happens.

Over all the distinction is quite complicated and causes a lot of confusion. At work
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Interesting. Do you have any links to technical stuff from people like John Deere? I’d be interested to read it

chicken george wrote:

Seems its a marmite car.
I personally like mine even after down sizing from a RRS.
But the news on the DS forum isnt good. mind you much of the bad stuff comes from ex owners who have
moved to to other brands.
If the car was as bad as that forum says it would be totally unusable. Whats worse is that even the moderator sees the truth as optional, if you post anything bad it is eagerly lapped up and exaggerated further. Attempts to try and correct any non facts gets you labelled as a trouble causer. Then when you finally get your point across tbe conversation gets steered back to the original non truth within days.

There are issues with oil dilution but this is not unique in modern diesels struggling to achieve euro6. And LR are doing the extra oil changes needed at no cost.

Great car terrible forum.

great post CG,no old cobblers,point put over very nicely indeed.so all the knockers who don't have one,never driven one,shove your biased comments. i drove one a friend bought last year and thought it was really good all round.  gone
P38 v8 auto no problems,great howle from exhausts when giving it welly
Td5 auto head gasket,no5 pot not uncommon but good car.
1st Tdv6s manual epb problem fixed under warranty(stealer said"never heard of this before,i suggested he looked at d3 forum.
2nd Tdv6 se auto epb
3rd Tdv6 xs auto 2008,swmbo,s favourite.

More beers can go in the FL2 when back seats used. I rest my case.  FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Your round then??  gone
P38 v8 auto no problems,great howle from exhausts when giving it welly
Td5 auto head gasket,no5 pot not uncommon but good car.
1st Tdv6s manual epb problem fixed under warranty(stealer said"never heard of this before,i suggested he looked at d3 forum.
2nd Tdv6 se auto epb
3rd Tdv6 xs auto 2008,swmbo,s favourite.

Very - must slim.  FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Tigger wrote:

Interesting. Do you have any links to technical stuff from people like John Deere? I’d be interested to read it

I found a great pdf article about deere and scrf but can nolonger find it on Google

This gives some detail
http://ect.jmcatalysts.com/catalyst-techno...crf-system At work
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not the article I mention but it proves im not going mad
https://www.oemoffhighway.com/engines/filt...nt-systems

SCRF. SDPF or SCRoF are all the same thing At work
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CG your not going mad - been there a long time

What you need is a nice break in a caravan to settle you down.  Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

I do stress a bit on there, its like banging your head against a wall. brings out the worst in me. At work
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Thank you

So when we are shot of the eu,can we remove our dpf,s etc
a guy I know was selling an old fergia blue one,(this should not be confused with the fergi that like the toes being sucked
I thought if I bought it and put twin seats on it I could use that instead of the the landy.  gone
P38 v8 auto no problems,great howle from exhausts when giving it welly
Td5 auto head gasket,no5 pot not uncommon but good car.
1st Tdv6s manual epb problem fixed under warranty(stealer said"never heard of this before,i suggested he looked at d3 forum.
2nd Tdv6 se auto epb
3rd Tdv6 xs auto 2008,swmbo,s favourite.

A purely hypothetical question. I had a bad dream last night that I was looking for a DS. However if for some reason I wanted to buy a DS and was researching the possibility I would want one with a proper spare wheel. Now I understand that this is a decision to be made when the car is built so is there any easy way of finding out if a used DS has the spare wheel well short of seeing the vehicle in the flesh. I suspect that the proportion will be quite small. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE