chinnyhill10
Registered User
Hi,
Was having a few issues with my A3 170 Quattro in constant regen which seems to have been sorted out by having the timings changed. Car running far better and garage said it would have been smoking at low revs thereby clogging up the DPF.
They indicated to me that the carbon mass in the filter is a 53.50 (which matches my own VCDS readings) which they say means the DPF could be near the end of life.
I've seen others refer to a soot volume in VCDS but I don't have that. All I have are the following:
(figures from before timing changes)
Load Coefficient: 19.2
Carbon Mass: 53.50
Learned value -8.5%
Car is running far better since the timing change and isn't doing an active regen at 1000 rpm every 50 miles or so any more. Would do it standing in traffic! Also a lot smoother.
Car has done 105,000. Anyone know if I should worry about the DPF or not?
Cheers
Was having a few issues with my A3 170 Quattro in constant regen which seems to have been sorted out by having the timings changed. Car running far better and garage said it would have been smoking at low revs thereby clogging up the DPF.
They indicated to me that the carbon mass in the filter is a 53.50 (which matches my own VCDS readings) which they say means the DPF could be near the end of life.
I've seen others refer to a soot volume in VCDS but I don't have that. All I have are the following:
(figures from before timing changes)
Load Coefficient: 19.2
Carbon Mass: 53.50
Learned value -8.5%
Car is running far better since the timing change and isn't doing an active regen at 1000 rpm every 50 miles or so any more. Would do it standing in traffic! Also a lot smoother.
Car has done 105,000. Anyone know if I should worry about the DPF or not?
Cheers