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This may help you 70mai - Hardware Kit Installation Demo Video - YouTube In short, red wire on permanent voltage, acc wire on ignition-on voltage.

Probably not. If the piston rings are the problem, it's most likely RPM related, not power related. Higher RPM => more piston 'trips' => more oil burned.

Also having a full size gemini 18' spare. The floor is lifted by an inch or so.

My guess is that bad servicing and "misuse" leads to these issues. Doing long oil service intervals and lots of city driving is what kills the engine. My average consumption is around 7.5L/100km. Mixed highway and city driving at a 70/30 ratio I'd say.

Well, If you are planning to buy a diesel, be sure to check that the DPF is in running condition(can be easily checked with VCDS or VAG Dpf and an ELM bluetooth device, doing a 10-20 miles drive test and watching the values). Almost everyone I know that bought a used 184hp engine (being skoda, golf or seat), had some sort of problems with the DPF, myself included (had to professionally clean it). Oil consumption can be another issue, but that's harder to diagnose sadly. Noises can be all over the places. The vacuum pump is a know issue, the fuel pump can have a whining noise (someone replaced it and still makes the same noise). But, If you are lucky and have none of these problems, it's a great all rounder car.

One way to check if the car is in "regen mode", without additional equipment, is to look into the infotainment system -> car -> start/stop system status. If the message "Engine must be running" is present, then the car is doing a regen.

I know of the safety limit, but what I mean by that, is if it's going to regen, say for it example every 150 miles instead of 270 if the ash is at 50% .

Are you watching the values live? Or taking 'snapshots'. I'm curious about the behavior of the soot mass measured. I have seen in mine that sometimes it is rising, then starts to go down as the engine gets warmer.

Does stored ash mass value influence regens in any way?

The value can be a bit higher if the idle is sitting at 1000rpm

Changing the CCV diaphragm won't help much probably. I changed mine and it was in perfect condition. If there is anything wrong with the CCV system, the whole rocker cover should be changed.

Soot mass measured says otherwise though 🤔

Any way to trick the soot mass calculated? It's really anoying since it goes up at almost a constant rate and getting way more regens now in the winter, since i let the car sit with engine running while i defrost / clean snow.

If you made 1500km before the light came on, then it's certainly not 0.46l / 300 km . More like 1L / 1500km since high to low is about 1L in this engine.

It's like a whining noise. That tone that changes at 2s ( changed revs ) I don't worry about it, since it doesn't seem to affect the engine / car in any way, I was just curious what's happening.

Does anyone know what might be causing this sound? It only occurs when the engine is cold, and the outside temperature is cold (I'd say below 5 Celsius) VID_20220109_112350.mp4.15289e5d1f67f14c3c45604c952e3294.mp4

Definetely sounds like ECO mode, and the fog lights turning on and off, are the cornering lights function.

Considering it's running around 1lt / h, that would be at least 10hrs. I'm guessing damaging the engine is not a possibility.

Is there any problem if G13 was used? If I'm not mistaken, G13 was used on my car after cambelt + water pump replacement at that start of this year.

Considering we talked about additives. Does anyone recommend oil additives?

Around 55g. The DPF was clogged, never being able to complete a regen.

My DPF was cleaned one year ago, so the ash level is pretty low(was set to a value of 5.5g since it wasn't a new part replacement, and now it's around 7g) , and the DPF is functioning normally ( I would say, e.g: Regens occur at around 250 miles, and around half of that if driving ONLY in the city ).

I'm always using premium fuel.

Since I'm doing way more city driving lately, I've been thinking of using a DPF cleaner additive, but I would like to hear some opinions before that. The reviews I've seen online are mostly positive though. What are your thoughts? ( engine's a 2.0 TDI cupa)

It's a 1.6 engine though. They should last more.