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Hi, for a few years now I got a bit of a problem with my car. As I dont do very long trips with my car as I use it to commute to work (15 miles one way), sometimes my DPF regen starts just before I arrive to work. Well obviously I cant just drive around so I have to switch the engine off during an active DPF regen. But what happens is that when I start the engine after a while, the active DPF regen carries on after a minute or so, while the engine is cold. This results in a shaky engine, nasty smell and quite a lot of white smoke while the engine is not up to the operational temperature. Is that possible that the active DPF regen won't stop until it actually finishes itself, even tho I switched the engine off inbetween? Went to 3 different garages, all told me that they can't see anything on the diagnostics and the one thing they told me to never interrupt the active DPF regen. But everything I read so far it said that when you switch the engine off durin a regen it will stop it and will start to do it all again at some point again, not carrying when it left of. My engine is a 2010 1.6 Tdi. Thank you for any help I can get.

I got exactly the same issue with my 2010 TDi 1.6. But I kinda figured out the reason for it, but can't find any solution to resolve it (well there is kinda). If the car is having a activate DPF regen and you interrupt it with switching the engine off, for some stupid reason the regen will continue after you start the engine again and it will be jumpy, smelly and white smoke will be coming out of the car until it reaches it's operating temperature again. The only solution to prevent this happening for me is just to complete the active DPF regen and it will be fine.