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The Modern Day Diesel

The DPF (diesel particulate filter) is a filter within the exhaust system that retains carbon preventing black diesel smoke and harmful fumes from entering the atmosphere. Unfortunately DPFs can block up with this carbon causing many problems. Contributing factors include using cut price diesel, short journeys and a lack of oil changes. A vehicle will self clean its DPF after so many cycles or journeys but in order to do so it must be at a set temperature and has to be travelling for a length of time. After so many cycles of not being able to regenerate the filter will block causing loss of power, the engine light to come on and the vehicle will go into a limp mode. In this case you will either have to replace the DPF at a very high cost, have it removed and sent away for cleaning or in most cases it can be cleaned on the car at a fraction of the cost of a new one. We are able to clean most DPFs on the vehicle, restoring them back to a good working condition. If you require more information please give us a call on 01271 812295.