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Sep 21st, 2018, 19:59 | #1 |
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Am I driving enough
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My current car is my 1st diesel. In the morning I drop the missis off and then I go to work. Overall about 4 - 5 miles and the engine gets up to temperature. Around 12 I have 2 short drives, engine dosent warm up and then drive home at 5 (engine dosent warm up) Every other weekend or so I'll go for a big drive, about 50 - 150 miles. Am I driving enough to avoid dpf issues??? Cheers |
Sep 21st, 2018, 20:03 | #2 |
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Short answer is, it depends.
We don't know what car you have and you may not even have a DPF.
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Sep 21st, 2018, 20:09 | #3 |
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It's a 2010 v50 2.0d
I checked with the vin number and I have a dpf model |
Sep 21st, 2018, 20:35 | #4 |
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I often think my car doesnt get driven enough. Unless Im at a petrol station pouring £65 into the tank. Then I change my mind.
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Sep 21st, 2018, 21:27 | #5 |
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Your journeys don’t sound ideal especially in cold weather when it will take much longer to warm the car up. Especially the middle of the day trips.
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Sep 21st, 2018, 21:34 | #6 |
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I do similar, slightly less on a daily basis. I wouldn’t even consider a dpf model as the engine just isn’t getting properly hot often enough. I have a couple of colleagues who have had major issues (non Volvo) with similar driving regimes.
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Sep 21st, 2018, 22:41 | #7 |
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I had an XC90 D5 for 6 years and gave it very similar use; 3 miles to work every day and the occasional 70 mile round trip at weekends. Sometimes it would do short trips only for 3 weeks or more: it did occasionally, maybe 5 or 6 times a year, do much longer trips of 200-300 miles.
It never caused any problems, and I don’t ever recall the DPF regenerating in all that time. A friend of mine had a Landrover Freelander which had similar use, but he did have DPF issues on several occasions and saw regular regenerations, especially if he used supermarket fuel.
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Sep 24th, 2018, 12:44 | #8 |
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People shouldn't have to change their lifestyle to suit their cars, manufacturers are basically producing a product that is not up to the job.
When was the last time you had to make a long call on your mobile phone, so it would still get a good signal next time you want to use it? However, I'm sure that prat Dyson will do something akin to a DPF in one of his awful vacuum cleaners, so you have to leave it running for an hour once a week, to keep it from blocking!
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If the authorities really cared about people not using phones in their car then they would force manufacturers to come up with a technical solution. Yet they seem more concerned with imposing unenforceable laws on all of us in the hope that there's a bit of revenue in it. Same with the 'breath of Satan' or exhaust fumes. If they were as deadly as claimed, then just making people pay a bit more for personal transport is hardly addressing the problem. But it does bring in revenue.
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Sep 24th, 2018, 17:02 | #10 |
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If you do those long journeys that frequently I would've thought that would clear it out.
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