08 Plate Auto @36,000 miles, R2 service completed at 35,500
Bare with me chaps cos this might be a little bit long winded! Hopefully, when you’ve heard the background, you might understand my worry.
Next week, I set off for Spain for the winter, towing my 5th wheel with my Nav. It’s a heck of a long way and due to previous bad experiences with the emissions side of things on my truck I can’t help but have a niggling worry.
I understand what the DPF regeneration does, but what I’m struggling a bit with is when it does it.
If the DPF light comes on on the dash, possibly due to too much town work, the manual says take it for a run up the motorway at OVER 50mph until the light goes out, usually about 15 to 30 minutes? I’ve also read that if you have to drop below 50mph within the 15 minutes, then the regeneration is incomplete and you have to start again?
At the mo, my Nav is fine with no light, but I’m toying with taking her for a blast up the M6 sometime this week to sort of “force” a regeneration before I set off for Spain.
Question is, would I be just wasting my time & fuel?
Does the regeneration process ONLY start when the light is on or is it something that is started automatically as soon as the exhaust gets hot enough on the motorway, whether the light is on or not and just quietly goes on in the background without the driver knowing it?
Not long after I bought the Nav, the “controller” for the DPF regeneration failed (so the dealer told me) so it had to go in for a “forced” regeneration on the ramp and a new “controller”.
Then, last year in France, an exhaust temperature sensor failed and it took two trips to two different French dealers before it was spotted and replaced by which time the two week holiday was ruined.
Knowing that, perhaps you’ll understand my somewhat dented confidence in the Navs emissions system?
Any advice much appreciated.
Ta
Bare with me chaps cos this might be a little bit long winded! Hopefully, when you’ve heard the background, you might understand my worry.
Next week, I set off for Spain for the winter, towing my 5th wheel with my Nav. It’s a heck of a long way and due to previous bad experiences with the emissions side of things on my truck I can’t help but have a niggling worry.
I understand what the DPF regeneration does, but what I’m struggling a bit with is when it does it.
If the DPF light comes on on the dash, possibly due to too much town work, the manual says take it for a run up the motorway at OVER 50mph until the light goes out, usually about 15 to 30 minutes? I’ve also read that if you have to drop below 50mph within the 15 minutes, then the regeneration is incomplete and you have to start again?
At the mo, my Nav is fine with no light, but I’m toying with taking her for a blast up the M6 sometime this week to sort of “force” a regeneration before I set off for Spain.
Question is, would I be just wasting my time & fuel?
Does the regeneration process ONLY start when the light is on or is it something that is started automatically as soon as the exhaust gets hot enough on the motorway, whether the light is on or not and just quietly goes on in the background without the driver knowing it?
Not long after I bought the Nav, the “controller” for the DPF regeneration failed (so the dealer told me) so it had to go in for a “forced” regeneration on the ramp and a new “controller”.
Then, last year in France, an exhaust temperature sensor failed and it took two trips to two different French dealers before it was spotted and replaced by which time the two week holiday was ruined.
Knowing that, perhaps you’ll understand my somewhat dented confidence in the Navs emissions system?
Any advice much appreciated.
Ta
