12-11-2014, 05:58 PM
Its still a Peugeot engine, and Peugeots shitty additive assisted DPF. 
I should've gone for the Ford 1.8 TDCi tbh...no DPF needed on that! 
However it is about 500 years old lol. And appears to come with its own set of expensive faults.
IF the cheap DPF works and isn't likely to melt at the first regen or block up over a day, it's significantly cheaper and easier to do that than to gut and map mine (for me anyway!).
Not to mention it'll actually still be legal, pass future MOTs without issue and will be able to sell it when the time comes.
I'd probably then have a go at DIY cleaning the old one...when that fails, work out a poor mans way of gutting it - pair of side cutters and superglue I guess.
Getting info on them seems near impossible though. Really struggling to find info online about this exact DPF. There's lots of generic DPF info, and a lot of bullsh*t spouted by people who clearly haven't a clue lol.
Ford don't seem to want to help with regards to what the 'normal' differential pressure should be or if there was a software update that mine may have missed or anything else I should check before committing to buy a DPF from them (they don't know that I wont lol). Was just told to phone their premium rate £1/min technical centre...despite emailing the technical centre. Or I could send a letter (who writes a letter these days!?) to their tech dept in Colchester. Now I know you'll probably say it's in their interest not to tell me how to fix the car...but if its a software update, or a specific part, it'd be in their interest to sell it to me surely!
The supplier of the DPF (a major parts chain) appears to have unknowledgeable's answering their ebay questions which isn't overly helpful. Just for example, when they asked about a 'small pipe from the engine', I didn't realise they meant the ~2" one from the turbo! I was then advised another DPF was the right one....umm, you mean the one with the same part number just without the fitting kit? Yeah...thanks...
The only people that have been helpful so far was Dinex...who informed me they only make DPFs for commercial vehicles so it definitely isn't theirs advertised for a car!
I should've gone for the Ford 1.8 TDCi tbh...no DPF needed on that! However it is about 500 years old lol. And appears to come with its own set of expensive faults.IF the cheap DPF works and isn't likely to melt at the first regen or block up over a day, it's significantly cheaper and easier to do that than to gut and map mine (for me anyway!).
Not to mention it'll actually still be legal, pass future MOTs without issue and will be able to sell it when the time comes.
I'd probably then have a go at DIY cleaning the old one...when that fails, work out a poor mans way of gutting it - pair of side cutters and superglue I guess.
Getting info on them seems near impossible though. Really struggling to find info online about this exact DPF. There's lots of generic DPF info, and a lot of bullsh*t spouted by people who clearly haven't a clue lol.
Ford don't seem to want to help with regards to what the 'normal' differential pressure should be or if there was a software update that mine may have missed or anything else I should check before committing to buy a DPF from them (they don't know that I wont lol). Was just told to phone their premium rate £1/min technical centre...despite emailing the technical centre. Or I could send a letter (who writes a letter these days!?) to their tech dept in Colchester. Now I know you'll probably say it's in their interest not to tell me how to fix the car...but if its a software update, or a specific part, it'd be in their interest to sell it to me surely!
The supplier of the DPF (a major parts chain) appears to have unknowledgeable's answering their ebay questions which isn't overly helpful. Just for example, when they asked about a 'small pipe from the engine', I didn't realise they meant the ~2" one from the turbo! I was then advised another DPF was the right one....umm, you mean the one with the same part number just without the fitting kit? Yeah...thanks...
The only people that have been helpful so far was Dinex...who informed me they only make DPFs for commercial vehicles so it definitely isn't theirs advertised for a car!