DPF Cleaning Off The Truck?

N-Trouble wrote:

The Mad Norsky wrote:

goducks10 wrote:

N-Trouble wrote:
I know when mine plugs rather than spending $1200+ to replace the DPF I will instead buy a tuner and delete the crap.

OP I would say everything in your post is pretty spot on and accurate.

x2. I can't wait till I'm past the 5 year mark. Then I know the junk emission stuff will fall off.

I understand that emissions testing will be coming, sooner or later, to all 50 states.

So go ahead and delete. But then the question arises what happens when you get tested???????

And gee folks, the OP asked nicely to not hijack this thread with talk of deletes and tuners. Lets be nice and honor that request.

Um... Pretty sure he added the tuner comment in later (see the edit time stamp...) so please lay off the policing comments.

Guys, I think this is the stuff the OP wanted to stay away from?

Back to the poster's point. It is a shame that LD diesel trucks don't have a serviceable DPF. But then I think that the light vehicle manufacturers are betting on these vehicles being traded by 200k miles or so. On our urban buses that average only 13 mph their whole service life, we service the DPF's ever 50k or 60k miles. That's down from the OTR trucks which is somewhere around 150k to 250k miles. If and when my DPF goes, I'm hoping that an industry will be built up in the US and I can get a serviceable unit for my truck. For RAM trucks specifically, the DPF is a separate module from the SCR system and they unbolt from each other. However, the canister for the DPF is still non-serviceable.