Graculus
Well-Known Member
We had a '21 plate Velar in work today with EML on, needless to say it went straight in my 'to do list'... Now we have no JLR diagnostics and my SDD won't play nicely with 2017-on LR's, they have a Snap-On thing but again, that won't talk to more recent stuff. My Autel AP200 had no problems however!
2.0l Ingenium petrol engine with DTC's set for airflow too high, Bank1 & Bank 1 too lean, soon found one of the charge air hoses had a loose hose clamp between the charge air cooler - how, when or why it was loose, God only knows, but it'd pushed off the elbow onto the inlet manifold, the car was sold by another branch less than a week ago so either someone has been fiddling (lots of hoses & harness not in clips, but close by!) and I can't imagine the average prep. tech. even taking the engine cover off.
Anyway, to the point - because there were emissions related DTC's, you can turn off the EML but the DTC's won't clear until you 'prove' it's fixed with a test drive
So off I went, a good 30-miler... It's a nice place to be, not the same position as a 'full fat', the seats are a bit more 'German' (i.e. hard and unforgiving) the 2.0l pulls well enough and is lively away from the lights but progress slows >85mph, it's still pulling, just not at the rate you'd get from a SDV8. I was also expecting a bit less roll, it wasn't bad, just not as good as having active ARB's.
Would I buy one? No. Not because of the seats, not because of the engine or the body roll, purely because the boot isn't big enough for the dogs to travel any distance in. The interior and systems are as good as you'd get in anything else for the price, JLR seem to have managed to make it (IMO) nicely understated, not all shouty and 'Fisher-Price' like Mercs. The Velar was released in my last year at JLR and I sort-of liked it then, obviously it was riddled with issues and bugs but they seem to have cleared all that up.
I did enjoy the short drive, clearly it won't suit most 'because electronics etc.' or 'because Ingenium', which I fully understand, but if we had smaller dogs....
As a bonus, my SDV8 was sulking in the car park when I got back, clearly it'd enticed a flock of poorly seagulls over it whilst I'd been away so I had to wrestle the jetwash away from the Nigerian service wash guy for ten minutes.
2.0l Ingenium petrol engine with DTC's set for airflow too high, Bank1 & Bank 1 too lean, soon found one of the charge air hoses had a loose hose clamp between the charge air cooler - how, when or why it was loose, God only knows, but it'd pushed off the elbow onto the inlet manifold, the car was sold by another branch less than a week ago so either someone has been fiddling (lots of hoses & harness not in clips, but close by!) and I can't imagine the average prep. tech. even taking the engine cover off.
Anyway, to the point - because there were emissions related DTC's, you can turn off the EML but the DTC's won't clear until you 'prove' it's fixed with a test drive
So off I went, a good 30-miler... It's a nice place to be, not the same position as a 'full fat', the seats are a bit more 'German' (i.e. hard and unforgiving) the 2.0l pulls well enough and is lively away from the lights but progress slows >85mph, it's still pulling, just not at the rate you'd get from a SDV8. I was also expecting a bit less roll, it wasn't bad, just not as good as having active ARB's.
Would I buy one? No. Not because of the seats, not because of the engine or the body roll, purely because the boot isn't big enough for the dogs to travel any distance in. The interior and systems are as good as you'd get in anything else for the price, JLR seem to have managed to make it (IMO) nicely understated, not all shouty and 'Fisher-Price' like Mercs. The Velar was released in my last year at JLR and I sort-of liked it then, obviously it was riddled with issues and bugs but they seem to have cleared all that up.
I did enjoy the short drive, clearly it won't suit most 'because electronics etc.' or 'because Ingenium', which I fully understand, but if we had smaller dogs....
As a bonus, my SDV8 was sulking in the car park when I got back, clearly it'd enticed a flock of poorly seagulls over it whilst I'd been away so I had to wrestle the jetwash away from the Nigerian service wash guy for ten minutes.
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