Best & cheapest option is to find a place that does off car DPF cleaning ie: they check for physical damage before removing it from the car, put it through a cleaning machine, check the % of flow through the DPF before & after cleaning, check the DPF pressure differential switch & pipework is ok, check the engine thermostat is working OK as DPF reneration needs the engine to be at correct operating temp - busted thermostat = cold engine = no regen cycle = DPF fault. Once all this is checked they then refit to car, reset DPF life % & job complete. A friend had a similar problem to his Ford Kuga diesel - ford couldn't work it out so he took it to a DPF place who sorted it out over 2 days & billed him 3k - no new DPF required.
Where are you located?
Good info, TR Laredo. Do you know which place (presumably in Melbourne) did your friend's DPF?
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The repair cost included a new thermostat with housing assembly & a new inlet manifold as the old one was suffering from EGR induced carbon buildup.
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Thanks. My DPF is fine but always good to note where the 'fixers' are if/when needed.
Your mate obviously had a deeper problem, and if the thermostat for the Kuga is priced anything like those for a WK2 I'm not surprised at the bill. Probably in most cases the DPF would just need a clean off-car so long as there are no underlying issues like this.
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My mates Kuga had been serviced at the same Ford dealer since new & when the DPF light came on they told him 8k for a new DPF & no guarantee it would fix the problem. The stupid part about it was the dash layout on the Kuga gives an engine water temperature reading in deg C - the readout was showing 60 deg C after 20 minutes of freeway driving which was 20 deg short of what the ecu was looking for to initiate the DPF regen. The dealership technicians/mechanics had NFI what caused the problem so my mate went back & gave them some feedback on how "real" techicians/mechanics fault find & fix things properly. That was 2 years ago & the car is still running fine.
My mates Kuga had been serviced at the same Ford dealer since new & when the DPF light came on they told him 8k for a new DPF & no guarantee it would fix the problem. The stupid part about it was the dash layout on the Kuga gives an engine water temperature reading in deg C - the readout was showing 60 deg C after 20 minutes of freeway driving which was 20 deg short of what the ecu was looking for to initiate the DPF regen. The dealership technicians/mechanics had NFI what caused the problem so my mate went back & gave them some feedback on how "real" techicians/mechanics fault find & fix things properly. That was 2 years ago & the car is still running fine.
I just would not go to a dealer, Brakes a brake shop, tranny a tranny shop and same for DPF's there are quite a few specialist nowadays and source quality, well priced parts, experts in the field who do a good job as they don't want to see you back with a problem.
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