Don't see how it 'greatly reduces emissions' - all its does is hold the soot in until your on a motorway or A road and pumps it out there! Its not reducing it, just saving it all up.

It doesn't pump it out, it burns it to gas. (carbon plus heat plus oxygen = CO2).

Having a DPF is what put me off buying the Octavia vRS with a diesel engine.. with the cost it takes to remove and remap its the difference in running costs for the TFSI that is a lot more reliable unit....

Aside from the sensor issue (easy fix unless you have a Q7, they need to drop the engine down to reach it) DPF's are quite reliable. The biggest problems are repeated cold/short running (which diesel engines hate) and those getting dodgy remaps which fill them up with soot.

Then when the same people get the DPF removed, they find soot all over the back of the car. Those people are the authors of their own problems.

Don't see how it 'greatly reduces emissions' - all its does is hold the soot in until your on a motorway or A road and pumps it out there! Its not reducing it, just saving it all up.

Having a DPF is what put me off buying the Octavia vRS with a diesel engine.. with the cost it takes to remove and remap its the difference in running costs for the TFSI that is a lot more reliable unit....

I think the post above covers the emissions issue. Being pedantic the equivelent of the CR is the TSI, which isn't without it's reliability issues (cam chain tensioner) which to anyone with a TSI I'm not being disrespectful of your choice!

I just find it a little strange that an engine is slagged off for any problems that may result from a remap, when the manufacturer has decided not to take it to that level (wonder why.....)That applies to petrol ones too!

If people want a more powerful engine then there's loads of stock ones out there to choose from.

Its gone wrong? sure its not just a sensor? ps your DSG should already have launch control if Im not mistaken.....

No - I'm not sure but for the money I'm getting it removed as it takes that engine maintenance issue out of the question.

Didn't know about launch control! I'll have to give it a go.

If people want a more powerful engine then there's loads of stock ones out there to choose from.

Not in a Skoda there's not... unless you've got access to a Rally car.

Edited 14 May, 201313 yr by giblet

Got the DPF delete and the engine seems a lot smoother and free (hard to explain but it feels like it is breathing easier).

Power went up slightly to 215hp but the car was put on the rolling road immediately and the remap was noted as unadapted (it takes around 6 hours for the ECU to allow the changes to take effect as the engine slowly increases the fuel and air ratios safely, eventually it gets to the maximum that the map allows). Off the top of my head I think torque increased to 348Ib/ft <-- I need to check that...

No smoke. Probably is a little bit but I can't see it from driving - and on another non skoda car I remapped I could see it constantly. Quite surprised really.

All in all hard to recommend unless you are having constant DPF issues. But saying that, its gone now and I won't have to worry about that issue again.

Sorry torque is completely wrong I'm sure it's not 348... I'll check my graph later.

There is a lot of talk about the reliability of the DPF on the CR, but very little in the way of economy. My main reason for for removing the DPF over a standard remap would be the economy. I've had a DPF removal on the PD engine in the past and the performance gain wasn't as noticeable as the smoke increase compared to the standard remap.

Does anyone have any feedback on this?