I'm hoping one of our technical gurus can answer this query.

A car with a DPF, what does the dpf sensor measure?

Could the front pipe complete with the DPF be removed, the DPF cut open and all the filter gubbins be removed leaving an uninterrupted pipe, refitted the front pipe with empty DPF and then trick the DPF sensor to think the filter was there but not blocked and hence no longer need to go through the regen process?

I eagerly await a flood of responses stating either what a 'kin great idea or what a load of *******s because.................

Not on the 1.6TDI yet but we do many 2.0 and 3.0TDIs.

I'm hoping one of our technical gurus can answer this query.

A car with a DPF, what does the dpf sensor measure?

Could the front pipe complete with the DPF be removed, the DPF cut open and all the filter gubbins be removed leaving an uninterrupted pipe, refitted the front pipe with empty DPF and then trick the DPF sensor to think the filter was there but not blocked and hence no longer need to go through the regen process?

I eagerly await a flood of responses stating either what a 'kin great idea or what a load of *******s because.................

The DPF sensor measures the pressure drop across the DPF. Its just a hose to the inlet and another to the outlet. These hoses connect to pressure switches that convert the pressure to a signal for the ECU.

You can knock out the DPF core but the tricky part is reprogramming the ECU to make it think there isnt a DPF fitted. This also makes the DPF sensor redundant. If you dont reprogram your just going to get error warnings.

As previously posted its already done on many PD engines. Better to fit a pipe and remove the DPF so you can refit it if u sell it. Currently the MOT test only tests for smoke so even a car designed with a DPF will pass same as cars without one ever fitted.

Pretty much everyone who has had it done on then pd engine has had positive results.

Just google 'DPF delete'.