Diesel Particulate Filter cleaning solutions
My diesel SUV has just returned from the shop with a new DPF as the new one plugged up at 42,000 miles. This filter is plumbed right off the turbos and requires that a lot of the car is disassembled ...
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Gotta drive it the way it was intended to be driven. My 6.7 diesel is a fantastic truck, but in February we go to Florida for 2 weeks every year. Spend the time on a little Gulf coast island and putter around under 30mph most of the time there. The truck HATES it. I can feel it going into active regen, which is when the engine purposefully burns hotter to burn out the soot. I never drive far enough for the active regen to get up to temperature and end up in regen the entire trip. As soon as I hit the highway pulling the TT, it cleans it right back out again.
This year we are just going to plan to hit the Walmart in the next town over after a week. That should get highway temps long enough to clean it out.
If you don't drive it the way it was designed, you'll be testing a lot of those DPF cleaning additives. Its probably far cheaper to get on the highway and take a roadtrip once a week or bi-weekly, then to pay for additives that may or may not work.
This year we are just going to plan to hit the Walmart in the next town over after a week. That should get highway temps long enough to clean it out.
If you don't drive it the way it was designed, you'll be testing a lot of those DPF cleaning additives. Its probably far cheaper to get on the highway and take a roadtrip once a week or bi-weekly, then to pay for additives that may or may not work.
