BMW Diesel Engines & short commutes
23 November 2014, 10:18 PM
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At risk of asking a dumb question... how do I know that a DPF regen needs doing, or has happened, or is in the process of happening?
I have an F10 530d, which generally gets used for a couple of short trips each week, but every few weeks I'll visit a customer 50 or 60 miles away so it gets a much better chance to warm up and stay at motorway speed for a while.
Should I expect to see a warning come up on the instrument cluster? Or feel a significant change in the engine's behaviour?
I have an F10 530d, which generally gets used for a couple of short trips each week, but every few weeks I'll visit a customer 50 or 60 miles away so it gets a much better chance to warm up and stay at motorway speed for a while.
Should I expect to see a warning come up on the instrument cluster? Or feel a significant change in the engine's behaviour?
In the wifes you could tell once youd stopped as the backend smelt like burning, only true way is to plug a laptop in and get the reading, this way you can put them into manual regen which I did with the wifes using a guy over the rd who worked for Vauxhall. but I got rid of it due to EGR issues and her doing school runs. We went for a petrol in the end.
I think the V6 are better but how much im unsure.
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