Bizarre, imho i'd remove the DPF and have it mapped out! DPF is the death of diesels. get rid of the filter and the job is a good one
or just buy a suitable car in the first place
Bizarre, imho i'd remove the DPF and have it mapped out! DPF is the death of diesels. get rid of the filter and the job is a good one
Bizarre, imho i'd remove the DPF and have it mapped out! DPF is the death of diesels. get rid of the filter and the job is a good one
Bizarre, imho i'd remove the DPF and have it mapped out! DPF is the death of diesels. get rid of the filter and the job is a good one
or just buy a suitable car in the first place
I did consider this but didn't want to invalidate the warranty - figured it would be better to sell this one and buy an older Leon or similar to then tweak and re-map within budget
It's a perfectly suitable car, just ruined due to an EU initiative. With the DPF out i couldn't think of a better car. 50+ mpg in the town and 65+ on the motorway...
If you are going to remap a different car etc you'll invalidate the warranty on that so you may aswel do it on the car you have. Honestly a dpf delete transforms the car
Hi everyone,
Just a quick update on where I've got to with this issue.
To cut a long story short, they can't find any faults with the car and say it's down to my driving (short trips and trips where the system doesn't maintain high temp) and there is only 12g of soot in the DPF.
I'm annoyed at Seat for not really being of any assistance (their customer service provided 0 value added) and not stipulating on these cars that they are not suitable for frequent short journeys even if you do go on a long journey every weekend.
As a result, i'm selling the car and moving on to petrol - Seat have offered me a petrol version for an extra £5 a month - pondering wether to go for it or not or sell privately first - so if you drive long journeys let me know if you want a white 184 FR in pristine condition at trade in price!
Cheers for all the help,
John
Shame you are getting rid of it. It doesn't sound like there is anything wrong with the car as it is doing regens at the expected frequency. Frequent short journeys are not the issue they used to be as modern DPF structures and engine calibrations mean regen will complete successfully even at low engine speeds . If your drive cycle was an issue you would see warnings via the dashboard and I don't believe you have had any.
Seat have sold you a good car that is working as it should so why be annoyed with them ?
The point is that the Regen cycles don't complete, and there's not much I can do about where I live and work so the car isn't suitable...