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Re: Another desperate owner with DPF issues
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:57 pm
by Ian.g
Guy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:43 pm
^ Or just go on a long trip every other weekend. Drive a couple of hours on some good roads to a nice hotel, have a nice meal, do some sightseeing. Maybe go abroad. Spend £200-300 on each trip and after a year re-evaluate whether you'd have been better off swapping your SD for a £7k 'loss' and staying at home
Well that is one solution!
My take on this is that some DPFs are manufactured faulty. Comparing my driving to the OP, I should be having trouble with my DPF and you probably shouldn't. That applies to others who have had trouble as well. The DPFs are made in such a way to trap soot and I suspect some of them don't have enough patent channels to allow free flowing of exhaust through the filter. So a minimal amount of soot loading causes trouble. Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree here, but some owners do seem to have a disproportionate amount of trouble.
Re: Another desperate owner with DPF issues
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 8:07 pm
by mark-yorkshire
Ian.g wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:57 pm
Guy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:43 pm
^ Or just go on a long trip every other weekend. Drive a couple of hours on some good roads to a nice hotel, have a nice meal, do some sightseeing. Maybe go abroad. Spend £200-300 on each trip and after a year re-evaluate whether you'd have been better off swapping your SD for a £7k 'loss' and staying at home
Well that is one solution!
My take on this is that some DPFs are manufactured faulty. Comparing my driving to the OP, I should be having trouble with my DPF and you probably shouldn't. That applies to others who have had trouble as well. The DPFs are made in such a way to trap soot and I suspect some of them don't have enough patent channels to allow free flowing of exhaust through the filter. So a minimal amount of soot loading causes trouble. Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree here, but some owners do seem to have a disproportionate amount of trouble.
I think you are correct. The number of forum members that have had serious issues have been fairly limited. It’s noteworthy that issues started after the software was “upgraded” in early/mid 2017.
Re: Another desperate owner with DPF issues
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 9:44 pm
by Tom 2000
Ian.g wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:57 pm
Guy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:43 pm
^ Or just go on a long trip every other weekend. Drive a couple of hours on some good roads to a nice hotel, have a nice meal, do some sightseeing. Maybe go abroad. Spend £200-300 on each trip and after a year re-evaluate whether you'd have been better off swapping your SD for a £7k 'loss' and staying at home
Well that is one solution!
My take on this is that some DPFs are manufactured faulty. Comparing my driving to the OP, I should be having trouble with my DPF and you probably shouldn't. That applies to others who have had trouble as well. The DPFs are made in such a way to trap soot and I suspect some of them don't have enough patent channels to allow free flowing of exhaust through the filter. So a minimal amount of soot loading causes trouble. Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree here, but some owners do seem to have a disproportionate amount of trouble.
It could be the sensors misreading the soot level.
Re: Another desperate owner with DPF issues
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 10:08 pm
by Ian.g
Tom 2000 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 9:44 pm
Ian.g wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:57 pm
Guy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:43 pm
^ Or just go on a long trip every other weekend. Drive a couple of hours on some good roads to a nice hotel, have a nice meal, do some sightseeing. Maybe go abroad. Spend £200-300 on each trip and after a year re-evaluate whether you'd have been better off swapping your SD for a £7k 'loss' and staying at home
Well that is one solution!
My take on this is that some DPFs are manufactured faulty. Comparing my driving to the OP, I should be having trouble with my DPF and you probably shouldn't. That applies to others who have had trouble as well. The DPFs are made in such a way to trap soot and I suspect some of them don't have enough patent channels to allow free flowing of exhaust through the filter. So a minimal amount of soot loading causes trouble. Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree here, but some owners do seem to have a disproportionate amount of trouble.
It could be the sensors misreading the soot level.
Could be. Either way, I think some of them have a fault somewhere when manufactured. Would probably be solved by changing the DPF and sensors - but that would mean admitting that there is a fault. So unlikely to happen I suspect.
Re: Another desperate owner with DPF issues
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:26 pm
by Hawkeye
I did 7k miles in my SD in 15 months and mostly in London traffic and short journeys interspersed with long trips in the U.K. and abroad. Thankfully, no DPF issues at all.
I lost nearly £20k selling my car, so for £7k, I’d bite their hand off and get yourself into a face-lifted petrol model if you want to remain in a Macan.
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Re: Another desperate owner with DPF issues
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:34 pm
by Col Lamb
Over the last couple of years the instances of DOF issues have not been insignificant.
Yes it seems short journeys are a contributing factor, but it does seem a random occurance, some suffer many do not.
Only a potential SD buyer can weigh up the risk to them.
Those owners with DPF problems are no doubt exasperated that their Macan is one of those where there will always be doubt about the next limp home mode occurance.
Re: Another desperate owner with DPF issues
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:52 pm
by Gazoak
The issues you are having on this thread are exactly the same as the issues we are having with Macan. You shouldn't have to adapt your style of driving to suit the car at any price! It's a ridiculous first World problem making our ownership experience most miserable of late.
Re: Another desperate owner with DPF issues
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 2:51 pm
by stallturn
Has anybody noticed the potential big elephant sitting in the corner of this for-room?
If people are having problems with the diesel particulate filter, what might be the situation when the new emissions regulations arrive in September and petrol cars have a particulate filter?
Presumably they work in the same way?
Re: Another desperate owner with DPF issues
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 3:39 pm
by GMAN75
stallturn wrote: ↑Mon Jul 23, 2018 2:51 pm
Has anybody noticed the potential big elephant sitting in the corner of this for-room?
If people are having problems with the diesel particulate filter, what might be the situation when the new emissions regulations arrive in September and petrol cars have a particulate filter?
Presumably they work in the same way?
Gasoline and diesel engines work entirely differently. For GPFs there won't, apparently, be a need to artificially increase the temperature in the exhaust to initiate regeneration. The regen should be entirely passive and work under decelerative conditions. Basically, this will all work on oxygen being forced through the system which, coupled with high temps in the exhaust already, will initiate the regen.
Re: Another desperate owner with DPF issues
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 6:07 pm
by gasgas1
why not just drop the car into dealer every now and then (have a loaner if need be) and let them run and clear the DPF. A Boxster for a couple of hours can be fun.