In this tutorial Darren Darling (The DPF Doctor Network) explains in detail, but without too much technical detail, when you should use in-tank fuel additives for your DPF for cleaning. Or when NOT to use in-tank additives to clean your blocked diesel particulate filter.
All modern cars with a diesel engine have a diesel particulate filter. The filter captures incompletely combusted fuel (soot) from the engine that would otherwise end up in the environment. In the course of time the filter becomes full. The car's electronics ensure that this soot is burned during motorway driving or when the engine is under a heavy load. This is known as regeneration.
However, many cars only make short journeys as a result of which the engine is hardly under any load at all. As a result, regeneration does not occur and soot continues to accumulate in the diesel particulate filter. Eventually the filter becomes blocked, the orange warning light with the diesel particulate filter symbol lights up on the dashboard and the car has to be taken to the garage or preferably an accredited member of the DPF Doctor Network (www.the-dpf-doctor.com).
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