you will see a burn off  of soot (blue or white smoke when its coming to the end of the regen , but once its running you will find there is no smoke.

 

 

If the MOT testers see smoke I hope they'll check that it's not doing a regen.

On 17/03/2018 at 20:42, mase101 said:

I agree the dealer did say it's because of all the start ups moving the cars around the forecourt TBH I put that down to car salesman BS.

When I took delivery of my new 1.6 TDI CR it had 27 miles on the clock and quite soon afterwards it initiated a DPF regen. I put this down to lots of idling while it was being shunted round the Arnold Clark network (it was in the showroom). It has behaved as expected since then now 22k miles and 2 years old. So salesman might be right.

On 2018. 03. 26. at 21:44, KarlO3V5 said:

DPFs aren't covered by any warranty known to man so I'd be very careful. My advice to anyone buying a used VAG diesel is to use VAG DPF and see how full the DPF is.

 

You need an adapter like this one

 

https://www.hypermiler.co.uk/dpf-diesel-particulate-filter/vag-dpf-vw-which-obd2-ii-elm327-dongle-should-i-use-bluetooth-wifi

 

On a second note - anyone with the app and dongle here - please post your results so I can compare my 15' 43k 184

My DPF figures at 210k km. This is a 2014 O3 2.0 TDI with DSG-6.

Lots of highway driving (70%) at real 145 km/h, city driving is less than 5%.

Long-term average fuel consumption: 6.7 l/100 km.

Oil consumption: 1.5-2 l/30k km. I have a heavy foot but I never trash the car before it warms up.

I also checked one of my colleague's car (same car, same circumtances): 234k km on the clock, oil ash: 67.7 g.

 

 

On 30/03/2018 at 21:36, aki78 said:

My DPF figures at 210k km. This is a 2014 O3 2.0 TDI with DSG-6.

Lots of highway driving (70%) at real 145 km/h, city driving is less than 5%.

Long-term average fuel consumption: 6.7 l/100 km.

Oil consumption: 1.5-2 l/30k km. I have a heavy foot but I never trash the car before it warms up.

I also checked one of my colleague's car (same car, same circumtances): 234k km on the clock, oil ash: 67.7 g.

 

 

 

Thats very interesting - I was wondering what the ash load limit was. I assume that the limit will be the same for the 184 - it's essentially the same engine isn't it?

DPF seems to be good and loving the car 

16 hours ago, mase101 said:

DPF seems to be good and loving the car 

 

Theose are just figures provided by the sensor. And we all know just how realistic VW Group sensors in their deisel cars are

 

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1 hour ago, Scot5 said:

Theose are just figures provided by the sensor. And we all know just how realistic VW Group sensors in their deisel cars are

 

 

Its not the accuracy of the sensors, its how the Software interprets the data they present.

5 minutes ago, KevC_Derby said:

Its not the accuracy of the sensors, its how the Software interprets the data they present.

VAG don't have a good track record for trustworthy software on their diseasel engines ...