Hi folks,

Her indoors has finally agreed to a new car, and as shes paying for it and wants a Scout who am I to argue. My diesel vRS is currently in the garage with a goosed DPF, the 2nd time in 4 years this has happened. This time though I am getting it remapped and cutting it out altogether, dont know too much about it but I totally trust my mechanic, and a bit more power might be a nice swangsong for the car. Ive been reading on this wonderful site and it seems that a few people have had DPF problems, however, when you consider how many VW group diesels are out there is it just that I have been unlucky? I dont know if its the way I drive the car thats caused it to clog up but I sit at 60mph with the cuise on for 30 miles at a time twice a day 5 days a week. Would this style of driving affect the DPF? I didnt think so but now Im not so sure.

Basically, I wanted to ask if anyone thinks these probelms are enough to justify going for the TSi Scout over the diesel? I know the petrol will cost more on a weekly basis to run, but will be a couple of grand cheaper up front and I'll have alot shorter wait to get hold of one. I never though I'd have anything other than diesel again, but I dont want to buy a diesel Scout and then have the DPF go again when its just out of warranty. Have I just been unlucky?

Thanks in advance

Blair

I had a DPF on a vRS Octavia and never had a problem.

However, now I only do <12K a year, I can justify having petrol. That and my wife said I had to have petrol because "then I'd have a proper car" - can't argue with her I suppose!

I think you may have just been unlucky, but honestly, I'd go and have a test drive in the petrol - those TSI engines are absolute dreams to drive!

We went form a diesel BMW to a petrol Octavia, the wife done 2 miles to her work and two miles back it was killing the DPF i had to regularly manually set the DPF to regen via the BMW diagnostics i got from a guy on the 5 series forum and then take it for a right good thrashing once a month, now we have the petrol i generally dont have to worry about that all i do is get the oil and filter changed more often and i still take it for a good thrashing not because i have to but because i want to its so much fun.

Petrol all the way.

I can only speak for the 1.4 tsi, previously had a 206SW with the 1.6 110 hdi (same one used in the HDI GTI) and thought when I bought the 1.4 octy estate I thought I would have to resign to gentle crusing and pottering around, not so, the 1.4 tsi is a crackin little motor and hauls the estate no problems, not fast by VRS standards but not embarrassing by any means, I imaging the 2.0 would be well impressive.

Parkers calculator estimated 4 years to break even, 1.6CR-D vs 1.4tsi. final clincher, dealer found a cancelled order exactly as requested (with a free spare)+ VAT free and it was mine 8 days later.

Glad I went Petrol, more fun.

Peugeot had a DPF, I never had any problems with it in 5 years and 58,000 miles.

Edited 19 June, 201115 yr by John T

1.8Tsi is a fantastic motor. I'm only doing around 6k a year in ours but coming from a 1.9Tdi I realise what i've been missing !

"I dont know if its the way I drive the car thats caused it to clog up but I sit at 60mph with the cuise on for 30 miles at a time twice a day 5 days a week. Would this style of driving affect the DPF? I didnt think so but now Im not so sure."

The AA is reporting increased DPF problems due to people driving for economy at 60mph in 6th gear, apparently not getting the DPF hot enough to do its passive regen.

Thanks for the advice folks, yip, I think my mind has made up. It really gets on my goat though that you could spend upwards of £20k on a modern diesel and not be able to drive it the way you want without running into DPF problems further down the line.

Have had a look at DtD and Car File, both coming in at just over £20k for a new TSi Scout but that leaves the problem of selling my vRS private. I'll try the local dealers and see if they can get close to the online prices.