Evoque with a Diesel Particulate Filter fault

 

This DPF image showing the soot build up was not connected to this vehicle - it is a library image but shows how bad a DPF can block.

 

A DPF typically uses a substrate made of a ceramic material that is formed into a honeycomb structure. In order to reduce emissions from diesel vehicles, diesel particulate filters capture and store exhaust soot, which must be periodically burned off to regenerate the filter.

 

You are not legally allowed to remove the DPF system from your car if the vehicle was originally fitted with one from factory as standard. 

 

This 2016 Land Rover Evoque came in with an engine management light on relating to the Diesel Particulate Filter being blocked. It was also due it's MOT test. It failed the MOT test purely on this fault.

 

Initially we thought that it was going to be one of the horrendously expensive fixes on the Land Rover DPF system which can cost upwards of £2500+ but in this instance it just required a DPF forced regeneration and an additive put into the fuel tank and the fault was cured.  

 

This Evoque does not cover many miles and this is the reason why the DPF became blocked and sooted up. It may well happen again but we are pretty sure that we have cured the fault for the foreseeable. 

 

One very happy customer just before Christmas