GAMBIA GARAGE
I am an independent Land Rover specialist based in Gambia where there is an ever increasing number of Range Rovers, Range Rover Sports, Range Rover Evoques and Velars. I personally have a slightly modified 4.6 Range Rover Classic and a 4.2 Range Rover LSE.
DPF ISSUES
The biggest problem we seem to have out here is the dreaded Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) causing engine oil dilution, which can destroy the engine. I am able to remove and map out the DPF, but not usually in time, as the problem is not known or understood out here. I always take a dilution reading of the oil first and check for sparklies [particles] in the oil filter. As you know, the dilution should be zero, but I have had them still running with 25 per cent oil dilution. Then there are those that are on three or four per cent and fail, very strange. They even fail after renewing the engine oil and filter as a result of the engine damage previously caused by the dilution. That can be difficult for the owners to accept, as you can imagine, so I have to explain the situation in detail to cover myself.
From experience, it seems that when a car starts to have a suspected dilution they send it to this country and some un-suspecting buyer gets what they think is a good-looking car, and then they start to find out that it may not be as good as they thought.
