Or do declare it to the insurer (many have), pay a small premium and drive a much nicer car for many more years to come...

i may well go down the DPF modification route. Question is now, do I modify the new non OEM DPF or the old original one thats off the car..... it was 22g middle of last year, cant see it being full. Or can it be cleaned. if so ill gut the new one and keep the oem.

Dpf's are more trouble than they are worth imo , no drama having it removed

i may well go down the DPF modification route. Question is now, do I modify the new non OEM DPF or the old original one thats off the car..... it was 22g middle of last year, cant see it being full. Or can it be cleaned. if so ill gut the new one and keep the oem.

 

Remove the new one and sell it, or keep it as a reserve for if you sell the car and want it putting back to standard.

 

Gut the old one professionally (try Shark) so that from an MOT perspective it looks intact and enjoy hassle-free motoring.

Remove the new one and sell it, or keep it as a reserve for if you sell the car and want it putting back to standard.

 

Gut the old one professionally (try Shark) so that from an MOT perspective it looks intact and enjoy hassle-free motoring.

 

Booked in for Wednesday, Stage 1 , Dpf mod, EGR mod.....

A performance map too? DPF delete by itself is usually stage 0.

In for a penny, in for a pound.....

When the DPF was replaced, was the pressure sensor calibration completed. You cannot just replace the DPF without carrying out the sensor basic settings because it will not know the DPF has been replaced without the adaptation. If you do not complete the adaption it will assume the current readings are for the soot readings at the time the DPF was replaced. If that was 15% the car will never report below that figure regardless of how empty the DPF is.

When the DPF was replaced, was the pressure sensor calibration completed. You cannot just replace the DPF without carrying out the sensor basic settings because it will not know the DPF has been replaced without the adaptation. If you do not complete the adaption it will assume the current readings are for the soot readings at the time the DPF was replaced. If that was 15% the car will never report below that figure regardless of how empty the DPF is.

 

I can only assume the calibration was completed as it was a garage that did it, but I also replaced the sensor and calibrated it, the sensor I took off was not the one the car had on it when it went in, so I assume they also replaced the sensor.

 

I cant figure out what the calibrating does. you just adapt it and you are done. but how does it know the content of the DPF and when the car isnt running, everything is equal. Cant quite get my head round that.

Right DPF is 'serviced' and the map has been altered accordingly as has the map for the EGR, and stage 1 has been added. Aparrently the car was 200 BHP  before the stage 1 remap and 240BHP after, but from a PD170...? Methinks the figures are wrong. I cant feel any difference yet, but i also went for the economy hybrid map so maybe the low rpms are running a bit lean and all the go is higher up, but whatever, no more DPF light.

Edited 16 April, 201511 yr by whitep

Enjoy!

Got the dyno sheets ?

 

My pd170 Octy dyno'ed at 198hp but its the same old , different dynos , different days argument

 

You should feel quite a difference with an extra 20% power

Got the dyno sheets ?

 

My pd170 Octy dyno'ed at 198hp but its the same old , different dynos , different days argument

 

You should feel quite a difference with an extra 20% power

 

Well its been since February 16th since I have been able to boot the car, so i may be remembering wrong.

 

I dont have the dynos, but i thought I might plug in vag com and see what the requested over actual boost figures are, mind you , I would have thought I would be getting lights if the car wasnt reaching boost?

Edited 16 April, 201511 yr by whitep

you'd know if you were getting 240hp , im sure

you'd know if you were getting 240hp , im sure

 

I would have expected so too. I reckon the car was already remapped by a previous owner.

Edited 16 April, 201511 yr by whitep