One thing occurs and I’ve no idea whether they’ve got any better and I don’t have a diesel Volvo so don’t know what they’re like but, I used to own a 2013 Skoda Octavia (mk3 184bhp cr tdi) vRS diesel and the DPF was bl00dy awful. I guess the VAG DPF of similar age are probably the same parts and my skoda was enough to put me off VW diesels.
Constant regens if the car was even threatened with short journey and even on decent driving Id still have noisy interrupted regens. SWMBO once got 7mpg over a week and a bit doing 4-5 miles runs to and run work over a Christmas period with interrupted regens each night coming home with horrifically sluggish performance until I took the car for a decent run.
I traded it in for a BMW diesel and never had an issue with regens again.
On the topic of Skodas - Octavia is pretty good, the vRS anyway is good fun but no where near the quality of the passat especially lower down in the cabin. Hard plastics at floor level etc.
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