Thread: D5 and Ad-Blue Use & Refilling

From our experience ( have been using ad-blue in trucks for getting on close to 10 years now maybe ), just buy the stuff, and make sure it's a known brand, in trucks it can cause $20,000 to $30,000 worth of damage to the system.

in a Land Rover it will probably be more .... ha ha

lots of shonky people have and are making ad-blue, we see them come and go in our industry, not worth risking a major failure, feel sorry for the poor transport industry that has no choice to purchase it in 1000 litre pods or 10,000 bulk tanks on a weekly or monthly basis to keep their trucks running down the highways.

Retail price is around $1-00 per litres, with the cheapest I have personally seen around $-50 cents a litre, average price most pay is around $-80 cents per litre.

so I won't be trying to cook it up in the back garden, really not worth for the small amounts that a car / 4WD based vehicles use.

Jack

From what I can gather the add blue is not a legal requirement in Australia and Not using it causes No harm So why not have the system bypassed by the dealer Before you take delivery?
Urea is pretty corrosive stuff, You only have to look at the damage it does to a super shed to see that So personally I would much rather Not put it through my engine if I didn't have to

Legal requirement to pass the emissions laws. ( it does in trucks, not sure about cars and such )
we had EGR, a DPF and Ad-Blue on the cards here in Australia later this decade but the government have deferred at this stage, ( thank god )

we we can blame the USA and Europe for the emission laws, Australia just follows like sheep

we haved moved away from EGR and a DPF and now just using ad-blue only, it is so much better EGR & a DPF, it was a horrid system,

jack

It doesn't go through the engine so there is no trouble there. It only goes into the exhaust.

I'd love to find a dealer that would disable it!! We need someone like Graeme or Mark to work out a way to do it I think.

After your warranty has run it course.

So can anyone confirm,if the D5 has add blue,there is no DPF or EGR?

Originally Posted by scarry

So can anyone confirm,if the D5 has add blue,there is no DPF or EGR?

Best to check - Ingenium are specified as EGR and SCR

Originally Posted by trout1105

Urea is pretty corrosive stuff, You only have to look at the damage it does to a super shed to see that So personally I would much rather Not put it through my engine if I didn't have to

The corrosive effect depends on the concentration. Urea is filtered out of the body via the kidneys, bladder etc. In low concentrations, it is not that corrosive.

Vinegar is pretty corrosive, see how it eats away at metal.