DPF Filters
Wife & I are looking for a tow vehicle for a Big Horn 5-er, 14,000 GVWR. I'm thinking about a 1-ton diesel, and are looking at used. Here's my question: Do I need to be concerned with those that ha...
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The bad thing with the new emissions on diesels is the truck needs to be driven. Short trips are not good on this trucks. They need to get up to heat and stay. It not good to stop the truck while the truck cleans out the DPF. The truck cools down and then has to heat all the way back up and restart the cycle again after truck gets back up to heat. On my 2010 Duramax exhaust temps run up to 1250 degrees when cleaning out.
I dislike that there is no stock option on monitoring the DPF on the truck. I bought an Edge insight CTS which is an aftermarket monitor. It can read up to 8 different sensors on the truck. I replaced the my first DPF on the truck at 470k miles. Mileage intervals between DPF clean out were under 200 miles empty and under 100 while pulling. With new DPF intervals are every 400 miles.
Buy an used emission truck the DPF has to be a top concern. I payed $1600 to a GM shop to replace mine. Just because they have low miles doesn't guarantee a proper working emissions systems. Its more likely the owner hasn't allowed the truck to run long enough for the filter to clean out properly.
I dislike that there is no stock option on monitoring the DPF on the truck. I bought an Edge insight CTS which is an aftermarket monitor. It can read up to 8 different sensors on the truck. I replaced the my first DPF on the truck at 470k miles. Mileage intervals between DPF clean out were under 200 miles empty and under 100 while pulling. With new DPF intervals are every 400 miles.
Buy an used emission truck the DPF has to be a top concern. I payed $1600 to a GM shop to replace mine. Just because they have low miles doesn't guarantee a proper working emissions systems. Its more likely the owner hasn't allowed the truck to run long enough for the filter to clean out properly.
