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#1 ·
Tried a quick search of the forum and couldn't find an answer (and someone will probably post rtfm!) but my Adblue range hasn't gone down at all since I got my car. At pickup it said the Adblue range was 4500 miles and now 1200 miles later it still says 4500 miles. Is this normal? I know that Adblue usage is a function of driving style, but is my car actually using any at all?

In my Disco Sport it would wildly over-estimate the range when full (15 litres would estimate around 14000 miles) however I would get around 9-10,000 miles before it warned that there was less than 1000 miles left. With LR, Adblue top-ups were part of the service pack so could just pop in to my local dealer. Understand that with Skoda it's self-help!
 
#2 ·
I get about 6,000 miles to 11 litres of adblue, give or take. Last time I bought adblue the cost was £11 for a fill up.

I would rather pay for my own adblue with the standard Skoda service cost of £149 ( think I got it cheaper) than paying for Land Rovers eye watering servicing costs ( I saw somewhere non-service plan Customer we're paying between £500 and £600 p er s ervice). Would be interesting to know if that's the case.
 
#3 ·
Not sure about the non-service plan costs at LR, I paid £499 which got me 2 services and around 5 Adblue fills. Agree that the Skoda seems cheaper on paper, however it only includes 1 oil change and 1 inspection service afaik, which is less than the LR where I got the equivalent of 2 inspection services plus the Adblue. It was convenient getting someone else to fill the Adblue for me whilst I drank their over-rated 'free' coffee! Skoda still probably better value on balance though...

My issues with LR were more the poor quality of the actual product as well as the dealer constantly trying to fob me off with excuses as to why the brakes squealed like a train, the service indicator didn't work, 4 visits to fix a rattling speaker when I told them exactly what the problem was the first time, etc, etc...
 
#4 ·
Forgot to ask - should I expect it to start counting down from around 1500 miles then? Is the system set to never estimate more than 4500 miles?
 
#5 ·
Hi. Sorry, new to this forum, so forgive if I am offering anything daft.

My original Adblue reading gave me a range of 5500 miles, and it healthily ticked down by 500 miles every 6 or 700 (!). I have had to refill only twice in 16,000 miles to date. Incidentally, despite getting low on Adblue, 11 litres was too much. But the reading itself never returned to anything higher in range than 4500 miles.

Page 277 of the Kodiaq manual tells you/us:

Before continuing your journey, switch on just the ignition for 30 s so that
the refilling can be recognized by the system. Only then start the engine.

I didn't do this either time. Probably insignificant, maybe not??
 
#6 ·
Kevinthepenguin said:
Hi. Sorry, new to this forum, so forgive if I am offering anything daft.

My original Adblue reading gave me a range of 5500 miles, and it healthily ticked down by 500 miles every 6 or 700 (!). I have had to refill only twice in 16,000 miles to date. Incidentally, despite getting low on Adblue, 11 litres was too much. But the reading itself never returned to anything higher in range than 4500 miles.

Page 277 of the Kodiaq manual tells you/us:

Before continuing your journey, switch on just the ignition for 30 s so that
the refilling can be recognized by the system. Only then start the engine.

I didn't do this either time. Probably insignificant, maybe not??
Sorry it was 10 litres which is now £11.50.
 
#7 ·
Hello,

Dragging up on old topic but why create a new one!

Collected the car last month (Feb 21) and driven just over 1k. Total mileage so far is 3,800 but yesterday I got a notification to top up the Adblue.

From what I've read on this forum a lot of owners are stating the can get 5-6k miles before topping up.

I'm finding it strange I'd need to top up now... has anyone else had this issue? Or I'm I missing something?

Thanks :)
 
#8 ·
It can start warning you more than 1000 miles before it runs out, which would bring you to c. 5000 miles.
 
#9 ·
Sdot said:
Hello,

Dragging up on old topic but why create a new one!

Collected the car last month (Feb 21) and driven just over 1k. Total mileage so far is 3,800 but yesterday I got a notification to top up the Adblue.

From what I've read on this forum a lot of owners are stating the can get 5-6k miles before topping up.

I'm finding it strange I'd need to top up now... has anyone else had this issue? Or I'm I missing something?

Thanks :)
Be careful and read the warning... I've got a warning light with yellow mark....ended on garage cause had a addblue error ...dealer cleaned the adblue injector and everything ok...
 
#10 ·
Reviving this thread to share my first AdBlue refill experience. My Kodiaq is 3.5 months old and has driven 6500 km (4000 miles). I started getting the AdBlue refill warning a couple of weeks ago (starting with an indication of 2400 km range remaining). Today, it said 1700 km range remaining and that I needed between 5-15 liters to refill. I bought a 10-liter jerrycan of the stuff and the car swallowed the entire amount when I filled it today (no idea how much more it could have taken). I am frankly surprised that I would need to put in 10 liters 3-4 times a year, especially as others in this forum shared much longer distances traveled before having to refill.

JR
 
#11 ·
Much like J-R, once again reviving this thread to share my first Adblue top up experience.

My car had covered around 4600 miles when it first warned me that the Adblue would run out in 1500 miles and I should top up, so similar to others and estimating around 6000 miles range to empty. Initial estimate given on the dash was in the range of 5-10 litres required. I initially ignored this and it fairly consistently counted down in 100 miles steps as I drove more miles. By just under 5100 miles is said I had 1000 miles left so decided to do something about it. At that point the car said I should add between 5 and 15 litres.

After a bit of research, the 10 litre plastic containers with a plastic nozzle to get it into the car seem a bit of a hassle, so thought I'd try to find a petrol station with an Adblue pump and discovered that quite a few BP garages now have them (and some Shell ones) and the one on the A303 nearest to me had a pump. I was quite surprised to find it was way cheaper through the pump than by buying a 10 litre container.

So my car took 14.89 litres of Adblue to be full at a cost of £0.749 per litre (or 74.9 pence/litre) which worked out at £11.15 to fill the tank. Seeing as the BP garage also had the 10 litre containers for £14.99, it was about half the cost to get it from a pump. Way more convenient and I also know that the tank is now completely full where if I'd put 10 litres in I wouldn't know how full or otherwise it was. My car now says it has 7500 miles range of Adblue as well, which is about 3000 miles more than when I picked it up with just 9 miles on the clock. I wonder whether the dealer actually filled the Adblue tank or just tipped 10 litres in and then delivered it to me? Seems the tank is a bit larger than that!

The one other advantage of using the pump was that unlike petrol and diesel pumps in this country, the little clip on the handle of the pump was still fitted, so I could clip it on and then not hold the pump whilst it filled up the tank, relying on the auto shut-off to stop the flow and just stand there waiting for it to finish. It was quite slow though...

So in summary, search out a BP or Shell forecourt with an Adblue pump - way more convenient and also cheaper, plus you know your Adblue tank is completely topped up after a refill - what's not to like?
 
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