Afternoon all, looking to see if anyone else has suffered from needing a new EGR valve, DPF and all pipe work? Our car is needing its 3rd of both at 75k miles & if so was the cause ever found.

 

thanks

5 hours ago, shiznmatt said:

Afternoon all, looking to see if anyone else has suffered from needing a new EGR valve, DPF and all pipe work? Our car is needing its 3rd of both at 75k miles & if so was the cause ever found.

 

thanks

are you saying you've had 3 egr valves and 3 dpf in 75.000 miles,

so  a new dpf & egr valve every 25,000 miles ?

a lot of people would delete and remap after the 1st failure   

costly business if having to fork out ££££ every 25k miles

That is correct, it’s had it done twice under warranty.

Yes. On a ‘Friday afternoon’ Volvo, at around 50k miles, and while not a failure, we had a regular DPF warning light on a 1.6 diesel Fabia.  The latter was cured each time by a quick Italian tune-up round the by-pass.

 

Both put down, at least in part, to too much short journey usage, and both now replaced with petrol engined cars.

Either you're driving the car wrong, only doing short journeys or there's a fault with the engine causing it to block prematurely.

 

What kind of journeys do you do? 

 

I put nigh on 65k miles on a Leon with pretty much the same engine as the 190 Superb and never had any issues with the EGR or DPF (the glowplugs I did have issues with though). My commute is about 25 miles each way mainly motorway and A roads and both cars do a regen about once a week. 

 

As said if you are doing the kind of journeys the DPF needs and this is still happening there might be another issue somewhere else that needs investigating  

I've only covered 800 miles since the last MOT at the beginning of September last year and a couple of runs up and down the bypass in the winter has cleared the DPF warning light.  The car's only covered just over 27,000 miles from new and although I haven't had problems with running a diesel in this time, I'm planning on changing the car next year and will go for a petrol next time.

By the sounds of it you'd be better of with a petrol.

Diesels really need using otherwise the car can miss the regen.

There are additives that claim to force the regen, not sure if they work or not. 

 

 

Yes, I agree.

 

I was still working when I bought the car, but I've since retired.  We used to take the car to Lithuania every year to visit SWMBO's family and friends but, for obvious reasons, we haven't been for two years.  Last time we went away by car, it was for nearly 4 weeks, so it's good to have a decent sized car to carry all our belongings.  I'll be 70 in September and had originally planned to buy a new car then as a birthday present to myself, but I deferred it for a year as the pension pot took a bit of a hit at the start of Covid, though it's recovered to its pre-Covid levels again now.  So long as there are no major downturns before next year, I'll look at changing to petrol in 2022.

Try changing the petrol station where you normally fill up the fuel tank.

 

It's not normal at all. Modern diesels don't like short trips or city commuting. For that usage is much better a petrol engine. Mine is mainly used in highways for long distance journeys and have had 0 problems until now (98.000 km)

34 minutes ago, Penpusher said:

Yes, I agree.

 

I was still working when I bought the car, but I've since retired.  We used to take the car to Lithuania every year to visit SWMBO's family and friends but, for obvious reasons, we haven't been for two years.  Last time we went away by car, it was for nearly 4 weeks, so it's good to have a decent sized car to carry all our belongings.  I'll be 70 in September and had originally planned to buy a new car then as a birthday present to myself, but I deferred it for a year as the pension pot took a bit of a hit at the start of Covid, though it's recovered to its pre-Covid levels again now.  So long as there are no major downturns before next year, I'll look at changing to petrol in 2022.

 diesel engines are ok for low mileage short distance users, but you need to get used to  the routine required and stick to it.

i've a diesel caddy van 2 years old, 10.000 miles on the clock, so only doing 5,000 miles a year and all town driving ie short journeys .

regens are every 180 miles or so,  so after a regen, i set the trip to 0, i now know roughly when the next regen will be due.  i use the vag dpf app on my phone, so i can watch the regen taking place before and after. The thing is with regens, you cant force it to happen, it wont happen until the dpf is 99 - 100& full,   a lot of people think you can just take the car for a run every now and then and all will be fine, but it does'nt work like that, all you would be doing is wasting time and money by going for a run when it's not ready to regen.

     it can be a pain in the @rse at times, but you do get used to it.  in my 2 years of driving the van , i've never had a warning light come on