Is there any visual indicator/warning light to say the DPF regen is running if not. Has any of Remapping world modified the maps to help this issue with a visual indicator on the dash when the regen is running.

I have long bemoaned the lack of any driver indication of DPF activity on VAG cars, its the root of so many problems that are preventable. It is in fact possible to get the information you need on what the DPF is doing but it requires a little plug in device for the diagnostic port and an app on your phone. There are various apps but the one I use is called VAGDPF for Android and its brilliant, not sure which app is best for other makes of cars. I know the soot loading, the ash loading and when a regeneration starts and finishes along with lots of other info. Not interrupted a regeneration for many months.

All Evoques fitted with JLR's own Wolverhampton built "Ingenium" 2.0l diesel engine (approx. 2015 on), are not fit for purpose. The physical layout of the bodyshell means the DPF is located too far downstream of the exhaust manifold to passively regenerate, (the exhaust gas is too cool by the time it reaches the DPF). So the car initiates active regeneration and this is causing oil dilution problems.

Apparently the new model Evoque recently launched has not full addressed this issue either?

How JLR have "got away" with this is beyond me.

Maybe they need to start fitting their cars with shorter dipsticks? ;)

Quite like the sound of the RR Ewok!.

Alas, while it would probably be cute, it would be just as unreliable as the rest of the range :-(

I was standing in a well-known Surrey dealership on Friday and two customers could be heard discussing this issue heatedly with their respective service agents. I listened carefully to the pathetic, disingenuous, DS-planation being given to the owner of a 30 month old Discovery Sport which had seen its first service at 2 years old. The owner was demanding to know why his car required another service (for which they wanted to charge him £240) only 8 months and 6,000 miles after the first one.

Of course, this question is straightforward for anybody who's been following this issue for the past two years: his car had been "upgraded" with N289 which meant that it had - for the first time since it left Halewood - a fully-functional, oil dilution-sensitive, service indicator. Of course, the rate of diesel dilution is no higher than it had been during the first two years, it's just that now this owner, like thousands of others, has been alerted to its presence.

The technical evidence suggests that Jaguar Land Rover sold tens of thousands of faulty 2.0 litre D8-chassis diesel cars from September 2015. "Faulty" in the sense that they all suffered from massive diesel dilution (indy repairers say that 20% dilution was common) while at the same time being fitted with a faulty service indicator that "conveniently" concealed the damaging effects of the oil contamination. Come on - what are the chances of that? Service intervals reduced on average by 60%, soot production up by a factor of 200% to 300%. Haven't I heard this somewhere else recently? Oh, yes that's right: Volkswagen cars AFTER cheat devices were forcibly removed following action in the courts.

There's now a technical guide answering the OP's question and much more. Essential reading for any prospective buyer of the JLR D8 transverse diesel but priceless if you're trying to reject a poor quality, misrepresented money-pit.

www.dropbox.com/s/d0bcrd7sve4l598/D8_Dilution_Expl...1

Edited by Ta-Ta JLR on 10/11/2019 at 18:32

We had the 2.0 2WD Evoque on a two year lease during which time it needed three oil services. The pretty but stroppy girl on the service desk was ignorant, rude and a lying little ***** when I told her the reason. Luckily the car went back before we got into the costs too much.

Dreadful car in general but SWMBO wanted one..