I think my DPF is almost full...

[Greg Roles]

Problem is it fills logarithmically at the end, so it's not linear, but yep Ben is an outlying data point on a 150km estimated lifespan bell shaped curve.

[Greg Roles]

mmm indicates around 30,000 km for me before consulting Gav(or greg if he pulls his finger out!)

Feel free to buy any other sports DPF available in the world. Yeah. No such thing as it's in the friggen hard basket!

[ian]

Ive never had a Regen i've driven over 55,000km , could it be that I don't nurse the car or am I just lucky and mines a 125KW diesel ?

[Arctra]

So for those that have the Tiguan TDI out there, VCDS shows something different:



And the ranges are different too:



I have about 77,000km's at the time of this scan. Gotta say, I'm quite happy the Carbon Mass is so low. Greg, I dunno if I am reading that wrong though - I have a sneaking suspicion that is the soot level rather than the ash level in the DPF. If that is the case, Measuring Block Group 068 didn't work on the Tiguan, so I'm not sure where to get the correct measures.

Thanks to The_Hawk for doing the scan for me and figuring out which readings were relevant.

[Greg Roles]

Yeah that is the current soot level, it's low as you have obviously recently done a regen. Interesting that your car actually has an ASH volume, this is a MK6 thing as the DPF is quite different, but I have not looked into the MK6's as yet given they are a while off having clogging issues due to terminal filling.

[Greg Roles]

Ive never had a Regen i've driven over 55,000km , could it be that I don't nurse the car or am I just lucky and mines a 125KW diesel ?

You would have had approx. 68 active regens in that time, you just aren't aware of it. Ever noticed the car idling at 1000rpm instead of 800rpm? THAT's an active regen. You get approx. 800kms between them, give or take.

[Mysticality]

Hey, guys!
Just chiming in... What do these values mean?

They're from the 18th of April, so an easy 15-25,000km ago...


EDIT: It did a regen on the way home from the bloke with the VCDS, 100km trip - about 5k's in.

[benough]

Now THIS is a proper regen

[Greg Roles]

I hope that was on the motorway!!

You need to keep EGT's above 600 to get a proper burn, but your inlet flap will sort that out. I have to do that manually, and it's actually hard to keep EGT's up enough to get a full burn if not on the highway.

[Greg Roles]

Hey, guys!
Just chiming in... What do these values mean?

They're from the 18th of April, so an easy 15-25,000km ago...


EDIT: It did a regen on the way home from the bloke with the VCDS, 100km trip - about 5k's in.

Without going right into it, all is well, and you are doing better soot wise than the car calculates you should - at that period in time anyway.

You Mark 6 guys don't need to worry till you hit 100,000k, it's the MKV guys like me in that sort of tiger country now.