You can’t be surprised that our mechanics can manage DPF issues in Bebington. After all, our mission is full service for all vehicles; that includes diesel fuelled vehicles. You may experience some issues with your Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) that you were not aware of when you bought your car or truck. This special filter is part of your exhaust system. The filter is designed to clean up the emissions that are specific to diesel fuel before they are expelled into the environment. It’s required on all late model and new diesel fuel vehicles and it has made a tremendous difference. The filter collects the soot and debris left behind from burning diesel fuel. At regular intervals the filter heats up and burns off the soot. The residue is released through the exhaust as harmless vapour. This is called regeneration.
The DPF filter is an innovative solution that works well most of the time. For some drivers in Bebington, DPF issues arise due to their driving habits. Most of their driving is within the city at low speed. The filter needs higher speeds to generate the required heat to burn off the soot. If you never reach those speeds, regeneration may not take place and the filter will clog. Some symptoms that this has happened are a sluggish performance, poor fuel efficiency, You might be able to get it to start regenerating by taking your car for a high speed ride once a month. But if your dash light still doesn’t go out, bring it to us. Our mechanics are skilled, think-outside-the-box professionals. We are not going to replace that expensive filter until we have checked every other component and operation that impacts the DPF performance.
We can hook up our state of the art diagnostic equipment to determine if it’s DPF issues in Bebington. But we don’t stop there. If the filter fails then we find out why it failed. If we don’t, then forcing regeneration will only be a temporary fix. Most dealers won’t do that which is why you always want your car maintained, serviced and repaired by an independent garage. If, after all is said and done if the only solution is a replacement filter, we can still save you a lot of money over dealer costs. So when that dash light comes on, contact us. This is where the real mechanics work.