NRALIFR wrote:
4x4ord wrote:
When Ford starts a regen that gets interrupted the regen is canceled till the filter reaches 100% full before initiating another attempt.............
That’s the way mine works, and there have been a few trips that just weren’t allowing a full regen to occur. It’s maddening to see that happen several times in a row. I wish when the DPF gets above about 80% soot load, it would allow you to start a manual regen. There have been too many times that if the ECM would just start the regen at the beginning of a short trip, it would have plenty of time to finish by the time I reach the destination. Instead, it seems to wait until just a few minutes before I get to where I’m going. Then it only has time to burn off about 10% of the soot.
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If you have a Chevy you can use a Edge CS or CTS to monitor and initiate a regen, I have soot level, miles since last regen, as well as exhaust temperatures. It will also data log and read and clear Codes. I keep an eye on my soot level and if I am getting up there and driving more than 30 minutes I will force a regen.
To the op,
I would give it a regen or two before getting too worked up, I have had my Edge CS monitor since the truck was new and would get between 450-500 miles between regens depending on driving. I had an unfortunate issue when a drill bit got away from me and I ended up with a hole through my airbag module, I took it in to the dealer for that and they did the update for the regen cycle while it was there.
My next regen cycle didn’t even go 300 miles and the one after that about 400 miles, I went back to the dealer and complained to the service manager and was told nothing they could do. Since then I have gotten up to 720 miles between regens and it usually is around 650 plus or minus a few miles.
I think as mentioned above it needs to get some running data before things even out.
