Considering a Superb Diesel but my journey to work is only 7 miles each way. But every 3 weeks or so, I end up doing a long work commute of 500 miles or so. Plus occasional trips to Europe see my annual mileage hover around 15,000 a year.

I was considering the Greenline as I find I'm trying to drive as economically as possible at the moment but I'm aware that its generally not recommended to do such short commutes in a DPF car.

Does anyone have any direct experience?

You will probably find a mixed response, some people may have had issues and others not.

When I read the heading my immediate reaction was no.... but as you are also covering a fair few miles every few weeks I couldn't see any DPF problems arising.

As I mentioned above, you will probably get mixed responses. You can have 2 cars that do the same journey, 1 could be fine for years and the other could have issues.

I'm in the same situation. My work commute is 7 miles return trip, but my job involves longer trips every few weeks and I average 15k p.a. I've got the 170 CR TDi variant and haven't had the DPF light on once since I bought it new last August. Currently at 10,500 miles on odometer. Fill up at Texaco every time (standard diesel though) as some report the quality of fuel can have an effect (Honest John for one).

CR 140 engine - doing small mileage daily commutes followed by intermittant long hauls, never had a problem other than low MPG.

Logic says I'll be fine. The DPF will slowly block up and then it gets a massive run (between 100 and 200 miles each way) in a single day. I know its kind of silly and I should probably just get the 1.8 DSG but I love the thought of very cheap road tax and getting near to 1,000 miles to a tank.

Can the DPF be removed if it comes down to it?

I had a CR engine with a DPF for a year and for 6 months of those I commuted 10 miles to work daily, however once a fortnight i'd visit my Dad which meant 80 mile round trip and motorways, so had a chance to clear the DPF regularly

Considering a Superb Diesel but my journey to work is only 7 miles each way. But every 3 weeks or so, I end up doing a long work commute of 500 miles or so. Plus occasional trips to Europe see my annual mileage hover around 15,000 a year.

I was considering the Greenline as I find I'm trying to drive as economically as possible at the moment but I'm aware that its generally not recommended to do such short commutes in a DPF car.

Does anyone have any direct experience?

My Greenline does 5.5 miles to work and the same back - on suburban roads.

Occasional longer drives at weekends as well as the usual shopping and Dads taxi trips etc etc.

No problems in the 3 months I've been doing it so far.

Logic says I'll be fine. The DPF will slowly block up and then it gets a massive run (between 100 and 200 miles each way) in a single day. I know its kind of silly and I should probably just get the 1.8 DSG but I love the thought of very cheap road tax and getting near to 1,000 miles to a tank.

Can the DPF be removed if it comes down to it?

I cannot comment on DPF removal but it would invalidate the warranty if it was found to be removed. A couple of recent posts have been doing minimal mileage with no issues, cannot see why you should have either.

I do 3 miles x 2 in-town everyday and am ordering a CR 140 DPF.

It seems to be fine if you do long trips (50miles+ ?) every other week or once a month. And be gentle on the gas when engine is cold to reduce soot.

In the end, most of the DPFs are not killed by the unprocessed soot, but the ash byproduct during the regeneration.

Not sure if anythings i will say will help but i got my 20006 superb with 2.0tdi BSS engine as a taxi 3 years, the DPF was an absolute nightmare so much so that Skoda advised against selling them as taxis due to the DPF problem. The stop start nature of my work just did not get the DPF up to temperature. However Soda released a patch update for it and have had no problems with it since

The DPF will actively regenerate whether you drive long distances or not. The engine carries out a 'post injection' cycle that raises the DPF to regeneration temperature. You'll also notice the raised idle and higher oil temperature.

Now that the DPF technology as a whole is a few generations on, it is getting far more reliable, the same as almost every other technology.

i've driven a greenline superb for 2years now and i have had no issues what so ever with the dpf. Yes i've seen the gear change information change by seeing the arrow point downwards but i assumed it was something to do with the regeneration process, but as ive said no issues with it what so ever. I'd happily get another one, but the deposits on my wife's motability website for the same car is a touch too much sigh !!

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