DPF Filter Cleaning Lansdowne Motors Chadderton Oldham Manchester

Lansdowne Motors of Chadderton Oldham are an authorised Terraclean Agent helping keep diesel engines running at 1oo%. First thing to clear up is that, while not all diesel cars have a DPF, they’re becoming more common than not on the used market. The reason is simple: it’s not possible to meet the low particulate limits introduced in the Euro V emissions regulations (in September 2009) without a DPF filter. Because of the vagaries of the rules you may find a few 2009 and early 2010 cars without DPFs, but if your diesel car is registered after September 2010 then you can be sure it has a DPF in the exhaust system.

There are various types of DPF filter, but all require a certain amount of regeneration to burn off the particulate deposits they’ve filtered out of the exhaust stream. In other words, cars that regularly take long journeys are able to burn off deposits in the DPF filter, but cars that take short journeys are more in danger of blocking.

Almost all cars with DPFs have a pressure measuring system to monitor the pressure drop across the filter itself. If it goes outside limits then the driver is warned by a dashboard light (sometimes it simply says ‘DPF’, sometimes it looks a little like a filter in the exhaust).

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