Hi all,

      I'm currently in the market for a Octavia mk2 facelift VRS, I ideally want the estate version but these seem very hard to find in the petrol variety! I'm considering a diesel, but I will do less than 10k a year and my daily commute is 10/15 miles on A/B roads, so I'm concerned that I won't get the car exhaust warm enough to regenerate the DPF.

 

does anyone on here have a similar commute with a diesel and how does your DPf like it?

 

thanks in advance!

I had a similar commute, admittedly it was more stop-start for 10 mins each end, then A-road/motorway in the middle for 11 miles. With the diesel MK2 facelift DSG the engine wasn't warming enough in winter and about right temp halfway during summer. Very frequent DPF regens.

 

Although no warning lights or failures, I thought it wasn't a good sign long-term and traded it in for petrol.

I originally commuted 50 miles each way by motorway for the first 3 years of ownership. Since then for the vast majority of the time my daily commute is now 3.5 miles evenly split between 30 and 40mph roads.

 

I do a Longish journey of 20 motorway miles every few weeks. Car has over 90k on the clock and I cannot recall ever seeing the DPF light come on. 

 

I have the PD engine which tends to have more DPF issues than the CR engine (which I missed out on by a few weeks.) CR engined vehicles registered  after September 2010 have the cambelt changed every  5 years instead of every 4 for vehicles registered prior to that. 

 

Despite not experiencing any problems so far, if I had known of the potential issues with the DPF, at the time of purchase, I would have probably stuck with petrol.