Had my car into the dealers and was told off for the fuel warning light being on (30 miles showing on range display). Apparently you should never drive these cars (and presumably others with DPF) with less than 15 litres in the tank as it will cause it not to regenerate the DPF, any subsequent blockage will NOT be covered under warranty. I just thought i'd pass the message on, as it was something i'd never considered.

We'll you had at least 15 miles to go then! What are they talking about :-)

They're talking rubbish.

I never fill mine up until the light is on and have been down to 0 miles loads of times, never even seen the DPF light once in 43k miles.

Edited 30 September, 201312 yr by Neily03

You would think the re gen code/cal would ensure no regen once the fuel light lights and would wait til it goes off again - which to be fair will be pretty soon or else you'd be pushing !!!

Sounds a load of tosh to me.

Before the DPF becomes blocked the pre and post pressure sensors would throw the mil lamp, trip to the dealers, force a re gen. Job done.

Had my car into the dealers and was told off for the fuel warning light being on (30 miles showing on range display). Apparently you should never drive these cars (and presumably others with DPF) with less than 15 litres in the tank as it will cause it not to regenerate the DPF, any subsequent blockage will NOT be covered under warranty. I just thought i'd pass the message on, as it was something i'd never considered.

 

This is an excellent way of finding un-knowledgeable dealers.

Ask to point out where in the handbook it says this.

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This is a link about dpf from the AA training.

http://www.aa-academy.com/Training/Learning%20Zone/Diesel%20Particulate%20Filter%20(DPF).asp

Nothing about low fuel.

Maybe you can pass it on to the dealer

I'd ring plod and tell em the dealer must be selling more than cars! Did you ask norman know all how he would prove how many times your light has come on and if he could how he'd then prove it affected the dpf. Clearly Skoda have a design flaw then.

Had my car into the dealers and was told off for the fuel warning light being on (30 miles showing on range display). Apparently you should never drive these cars (and presumably others with DPF) with less than 15 litres in the tank as it will cause it not to regenerate the DPF, any subsequent blockage will NOT be covered under warranty. I just thought i'd pass the message on, as it was something i'd never considered.

 

That's funny every new car I've had from Skoda has been in the red on collection!! lol

 

Regards

 

Richie

I can't really say I've lost any sleep over it, just thought i'd mention it .

This is rubbish, I had my mark 2 FL for 3 years and 62k always let the car go down to about 10 miles remaining every tank full and never see the DPF light in the 3 years no even once.

As everybody else has said, complete rubbish being spoken by the dealer. Fuel level has no impact on the DPF and regeneration process. An active regen will use a lot of fuel, and when I was driving my dads Fabia greenline it kicked in whilst I was stuck in traffic and not much fuel left.

Makes me wonder what else they 'know' about the workings of my car.

I've read somewhere that there are a number of external influences that prevent the car from initiating a regen of the DPF, low fuel being one.