I have a CR90 - 1.6

I have always thought that the DPF (mandatory?) is a pain - and adds problems rather than contains them. My earlier 3 pot diesel never had any problem.

Has any forum member had this item removed - and what are their experiances after.

In monetary terms I now pay £20 pa, whereas the earlier non pdf cost £30 pa.- so very little gain. There are all sorts of warnings about decreased performance (folowing DPF removal), but is this really the case?

Your thoughts appreciated

I've no issues and no puffs of soot from the back which you'll have if you remove

Hi 2ndSkoda, there is really no valid reason to remove your dpf and will render it illegal very shortly as it will be a non compliant vehicle. If you are a fairly average driver doing normal...ish miles you won't ever get any problems. In fact, few drivers ever get a problem inspite of what you may read here, and in the press. Although I acknowledge there are some drivers who have experienced the odd issue because they don't do enough miles or they drive all the time in towns. Modern diesels are unsuitable to be driven in towns and on slow urban work if that is how it will be predominantly used as it clogs up the dpf. Regardless of why you might want to remove the dpf there is soon to be new EU regs that will require you to put back any dpf or cat you remove and so it is a pointless excercise to do anyway. On your car you would be removing both the dpf and the cat as they are a combined unit costing near £1,700 inc labour to have replaced. Not good!

Hi 2ndSkoda, there is really no valid reason to remove your dpf and will render it illegal very shortly as it will be a non compliant vehicle.

Regardless of why you might want to remove the dpf there is soon to be new EU regs that will require you to put back any dpf or cat you remove and so it is a pointless excercise to do anyway.

I will be looking to remove my DPF in my PD if it blocks. Can you point me at your sources for this?

Dpf removal isnt a simple get underneath and remove a section exhaust.

DPFs have a few sensors plus fuel lines running to it so these need to be delt with.

I believe plenty have removed them so there is probably so good info out there if you have a good look.

Now from experience the biggest problem with DPF (that ive seen)is lack of understanding of them, by car buyers and in cases people selling them.

The main issue is its need to regenerate, this normally done by its self normally at motorway speeds etc etc, now this is where the problem starts, if you do a lot of stopping and starting or loads of short journeys the DPF doesnt get to regenerate correctly and this allows the DPF to block, which leads to it needing replacing.

Now DPFs should last a number of years on a car depending use (some vans often hit 125,000miles before being replaced.)

As said above many diesels are suited to shorts journeys

But rather then looking at all factors and researching many people look for MPG figures when buying a car. Which is a bad move on many grounds lol

I ment arent suit in my previous post :/ lol

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