It's good to see a mechanic who knows what he's talking about and i'm guessing is honest with posting this vid. This man is worth his paying whatever he charges to fix your car. Top lad & thanks for sharing 👍

If I took a blowtorch to my van it wouldn't end well 😂. Fantastic to see a mechanic that actually knows what they are talking about 👍👍

When my brother had this on his mondeo. Ford quoted an air flow meter and dpf as the cause = $9000aud = muppets. I got involved. The dpf was blocked technically. But the back of the car was covered in soot. So i removed the dpf and flushed it. 5% flow to 98%. Then checked over. Car was over fueling and oil leaking from the front bar. Last I checked, there wasn't anything holding oil in the bumper = boost hose was torn =airflow meter fault and oil leak! Then after a week of driving. Dpf was struggling again with regen unable = blocked fuel vapouriser as you have. If we followed ford. We would have been $9000 in the hole before the intercooler hose and vapouriser would have even been investigated, let alone, found. BTW, i removed the glow plug and cleaned the vapouriser in a zip lock bag filled with intake cleaner. Put into an ultrasonic bath = spotless and running strong another 100k km later.

This is the first video of your that I’ve watched, I’m impressed. You are working in a parking lot, on ramps and in the rain. Undeterred, you calmly fix this vehicle as if it’s normal business. My hats off to you sir because around me here in the States I don’t know of any mechanic that would do this. I don’t think you charge enough for your service.

And this is why I do my own maintenance as garages either don't know how to fix the cars they sell or don't give a damn, or more likely, want to rip off unsuspecting punters by unnecessarily putting in new parts. My mother thought she heard a scraping noise from a wheel and brought her car to a local garage last year when I had covid and couldn't help. They told her the noise from her rear wheel was a bearing. I told her to leave it until I was better so I could have a look at it. So I did and was it the bearing???? No it was the dust shield at the back of the brake caliper that was rubbing on the disc. I pushed it back into shape and hey presto, noise gone. Saved her the 300 quid they wanted for a new bearing fitted......which in itself was a monumental rip off.

Brilliant 5* job & in such awful weather.. dedication to his job this chap.👍👍💪

I’m not for one second implying I’m a great mechanic but this is basic stuff isn’t it. It’s the same around where I am. All they want to do is get it out of the door quickly and get on with discs and pads. No one is prepared to diagnose anything. It’s the reason that we all have a bad name. Extremely frustrating

I've had the little pumps for the vaporiser fail before . Theres an activation for it so you can check it's doing something . The new pump from ford is hundreds, it's the same £5 pump that's inside my chinese diesel heater fyi . Great job again , I can't believe you can do all that without swearing.

you certainly know your stuff nice to see a decent mechanic

My boss, an undertaker, had a Vauxhall Vivaro with the same issue. It came back after an MOT and would not go over 30 mph. It had done 79000 miles, and only ever lightly loaded. The garage said it would cost £1300 to fix, so he got rid of it and bought a Mercedes van instead. Modern diesels, with so many of these gadgets fitted, are a damn nuisance.

I’ve got a 16 reg transit works van,61k on the clock,gets serviced every year and it’s never missed a beat,gets a blast on the motorway at least once a week,never had a issue

Well done mate. A tech who knows his diesels! Cheers from Australia!

Very informative, great job, good to see someone who knows what they are doing.

i know nothing about modern engines and am not mechanically minded at all, but I have to say having watched a few of these videos, you're a genius.

Well done I cured my BMW 330d's DPF around ten years ago. Had dealer software on my laptop and just put wynns diesel gold treatment in the tank and went on a 2hr motorway drive. Watched the back pressure drop from around 140 mbar to about 15 and it let me reset the active regen sequence. Job done. Since then Ive been sure use wynns gold or more recently dipetane on a regular basis. Saves alot of heartache😊

Second video I've watched, had to sub and like. Certainly seems very knowledgeable and honest, these are the kind of mechanics we need, not rip off dealers.

You know a mechanic knows his stuff when he has a mobile service.

Hat off to you working in that pissing rain lad! 🎩

It seems to be the reason for most breakdowns these days with people having problems with the Particulate Filter system and it's sensors. I few years ago looking around for a family car I bumped into an old school friend at a car sales place, he now has his own garage and was looking for a small car for his wife, he told me that there was a ford C-Max at the back that had been sold a few times but returned, he told me it should be £4,000 but they will take £1,000 sold as seen. What wrong with it was that it had a block EGR (exhaust gas recycling) valve, I asked my friend how easy was it to repair, the official way is about at £1,000, the unofficial is £10. So I paid the garage £1,000 and my friend and I fitted a thick blanking plate to the EGR valve and he turned the amber check engine light off and it ran perfectly and drove well for a car with only 55,000 miles on the clock, I put it through it's MOT and got told by the testing station that it's emissions levels where lower than standard. When it got to 125,000 miles, a neighbour offer me a £1,000 when I mentioned I was thinking of getting a newer car, so sold it him a few weeks later the turbo went on it so we when to the scrap yard and found an identical one off a very low mileage Mondeo and helped him to fit it, the C-Max is now up to 150,000, and still running well and passing it's MOT.

Many thanks for showing us....we are blessed! Working in the rain too..

I travelled 300 mile round trip on Monday to see Jimmy I didn’t waste money by going to other garages locally to me..

Best Mechanic on KZfaq.From another Mechanic 👍

We had similar issues with our work transit a few years back. Finding someone like yourself who actually understands the system, is like finding a needle in a haystack. When speaking to some of the so called 'specialists' who my boss took it to, it seemed like I understood the system far better than they did.

Proper mechanic. Great to watch. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.

I’m 6 months into a limp mode / blocked DPF problem on a 2013 Ford Transit and over £2k with two different garages, new glow plugs, new DPF and still in limp mode. Vapouriser being fitted today so will be £2500 spent, I’ve spent the whole value of the van and no faith it’ll solve it. Thousands of people will be getting ripped off with DPF issues who cannot afford these bills.

Thankyou for your video's I have learned such a lot that when I am asked to look at a dpf I have more confidence, talking to other garages they don't have a clue TBH like I used to be before you I have watched them all, time well spent

You know your stuff mate and shame a lot of these kid on specialists.

Finally a video showing how to fix this! Now, could you come over to the states and fix our two transits for us?

My audi in the last 2 days is showing the fault code P200200! I wish you were in the Newcastle area. 😔 you definitely know what your doing. Great videos too!

Fantastic as always Jimmy! Thanks 👍

A very interesting video for me as i gave up the spanners 30 years ago! I drive a Euro3 Volvo D5 so it has no DPF etc, It was great to learn about cleaning out a DPF and this guy is very knowledgeable and knows what he is doing! 👌

Good repair Jimmy, didn't look like that dpf had been off to me. So many cowboys in the trade now, bet they reset the codes and tried to force a regen and sent it back out. Cheers for the upload mate.

How is it that professional garages cant solve these problems? They shouldn't be charging anything, just rip you off these garages i feel

You do know what you are doing. Very clever and honest

❤ this channel & fresh out of college lvl3, thank you

You should drop one in an ultrasonic cleaner to see if it does anything. Be interesting video and I think we would all love to see that one. Maybe do one off the van not heated up, and one after you get the torch on it.

I recently changed my vaporiser on my MK8 Transit 2.2 RWD thanks to your videos. It was really easy. My OBDII tool didn't have an option to prime the vaporiser thought, but it`s done a few regen`s whilst driving since so I know it`s working. Differential pressure is around 7 at idle now.

Good job. Seems like a small thing but really requires alot of work.

Cracking video very well done just found your channel I'm hooked just had my caddy in vw for adblu sensor not cheap luckily it's got extended warranty

Well done Mr 😎

Basic training is missing in some mechanics education it seems, good tools and an understanding are as key ingredients it appears. Brilliant Vids explains so much. Going to be fun with BEVs unless the standard does not improve. Thanks Trevor

Can you imagine the youth of today climbing under a van in the rain with no complaints..................................where do we go when mechanics like you retire

Jimmy are you smashing that Blonde Bird at the end of DA video

Brilliant work pal

I'm glad the HDI Berlingo I used to have was last of the pre DPF models.

Loving your videos thanks. Im nearly afraid to buy a new diesel car with all of this emissions lark that goes wrong... Im so close to ordering a new vrs Octavia diesel but dont want a life of dash lights 😂 Greetings from Ireland

Excellent video. Thank you

Fantastic mechanic,👌

The reason why this keeps happening is because mechanics don't actually know how cars operate. They don't understand how each component interacts with the next so they just load the parts cannon because it's not their money.

Brilliant job.

Subbed! Great channel 👍

I did a ranger a few years ago, same engine, lads in the garage I started in, fully loaded the parts cannon and reset all adaptations and let it back out for a few more weeks, I had a look at it and glow plug faults, replace them and test drove for a few days noticed the engine temp wouldn’t go over 65 degrees, stat was staying slightly open not letting the engine up to temp to do a regeneration, Replaced the stat and never seen it again after that

Been following your channel for a while and guessed it would be the fuel atomiser and the blowtorch and 22mm spanner would be needed 😅

I have that compressor for on site too. Fantastic bit of kit

Thanks for all the helpful videos Jimmy learnt alot so far, iv just cleaned the dpf on our 2010 Volvo v50 2.0D with the launch cleaning fluid and the pressure values dropped all the way down to around 8mb on tick over and 80 @ 3k rpm but after driving 5 miles its blocked up again. The was excessive amount of diesel gone into the oil so im thinking the injectors might be the problem? It doesnt smoke at all Only stored faults are p242f trap blocked and p2452 for pressure signal but the pressure sensors working correctly. As are temp sensors etc.

I sure do wish you was here in Inverness to do mine as mine blocked up as a machanic back home in Bradford fitted a cheap £16 crank sensor and sent me on my way with the lights on saying it would be fine, just bought and fitted a proper sensor from vauxhall at £182 and all the lights went out immediately so just ordered a DPF from a company down Leicester but sure wish you was here

Good job 👍

Fscinating! Never watched your videos before, but have been searching for information on DPFs and diesel engines, as I've been looking at a Citroen Berlingo automatic, that only comes with their diesel engine. I barely drive 3,000-4,000 miles per year (recently retired), much of which is urban - I do very few long, hard drives. Looking at this video makes me think I probably shouldn't go near a diesel car!

I had 3 Company Ford Mondeo diesels from 2003 to 2013, and each one went in under warranty, at least 3 times each to have their exhaust gas recirculation valves changed and each one developed the same fault time and time again. Apart from that, they were good cars.

Very knowledgeable mechanic. Wish you could have diagnosed my van last year. Would have saved me a fortune. Even the dealer could not fix my shitroen. Thank you for sharing this video

10 out off 10 for working in the rain

Great to see an intelligent, principled mechanic.

I too got soaked yesterday outside working on cars. Terrible times when it rains this heavily

Brilliant.

The dpf whisperer at work again 👍

Excellent post, this was the difference between a grease monkey and a mechanic that knows his tihs, your worth your weight in gold these days

i had a problem with a vauxhall zafira and mechanics were baffled ,i ended up changing emissions fuse and ran like a dream

This is amazing, nice to see one take pride in their work, how much does this cost and would you come to Cardiff, I have the exact same van

Legend 👌

Good job

Fab work

Great videos once again. I have been told by a van mechanic that the Dpf filter only really lasts 100k and then they really need to be changed as they have done their work. Have you ever come across this?

At 6:45 are you pumping the liquid in the downstream pressure measuring tube? Does it not goes straight to the exhaust? Or it is the upstream pressure tube and it goes to the turbine and the DPF?

Can't imagine how hard these modern vehicles will be to work on in years to come when everything seizes up!!!

I did not know about the vaporiser.

My older shape 2014 transit I bought off a fleet operator who amazingly supplied Aldi and had their own fleet , the transit was for fixing the scania lorries , anyway it’d had loads spent, new turbo dpf and all sorts and 5 mins after buying it the elm came on 🤣 Took it to a guy who ran a fleet of transits and he checked the glow plugs and said one’s down and these need all the glow plugs to work or it won’t regenerate and the egr was not working due to one thing or another so I got a new glow plug and egr fitted and now it worked properly . Moral of the story is find someone who knows their onions not couldn’t care less keep throwing parts at it and hope you go away

If the vaporiser isnt blocked whats the best way of testing the glowplug in it

Hi would you by any chance be able to recommend any places in Dublin for similar dpf cleaning ect, Thanks

As a new subscriber, it would be really useful if you could recap what the fault(s) were at the end of the video.

Absolutely brilliant mechanic. A proper mechanic should i say lol

Love this guys videos

Great content mate, can I ask you what is that diagnostic tool you use? I look to purchase Icar soft ones, but yours looks like it's a software on tablet which I like better. Cheers and keep up the good work.

Several of your videos has clearly shown me how to deal with dpf issues. However the dpf gun you use is quite expensive. Do you think a Shultz gun would do the same ?

Had the same problem with my ford ranger and i diagnosed it with a cheap mobile phone scanner. How 3 garages missed it ill never known

How do you clean up the mess out of the exhaust?

Yep well done ..

Hero doing an evil job in the rain...

Hey mate, I've got a Nissan navara 2.5 diesel that had a very leaky turbo. I've replaced it but now the dpf is blocked and is in limp mode. Is my only choice taking it somewhere to have a forced Regen done or would I can of dpf cleaner get it clean enough that it'll do a Regen by itself ?

Hello. Launch manual says that liquid should shoot in the dpf when idling. Have you tested is there a difference betwewn that style and your style when the liquid can stand still in dpf a while before engine running.

I fixed my DPF with a mason hammer and a welder.. Seems to be working ok now..

Hi Jimmy, I didn’t see you do the vaporiser the prime of the vaporiser did you do that off camera? I’m not sure if you did it

Was wondering what Launch Diagnostic tool you use and would you recommend it?

Just out of curiosity is all that smoke just moisture vapour from the DPF cleaning liquid ? Or actuall carbon smoke from the DPF? Cheers Lee

Hi, you really know what you are talking about. I have the same problem with my 2017 Citroen Relay as you have shown with that transit custom. I’m £0000’s in with Citroen, including a new engine at 22k! Where are you based so I can get you to sort it? Thanks

I own 3 diesels and they all have egr and dpf delete. No more lights and no more issues.

Would have liked to see the regen temps , does that tool do a control check of the vaporizer pump ?

Doesn’t seem like they train mechanics to diagnose and fix anymore like this, they just train part replacers. Best off getting chummy with a proper mechanic and paying them cash on the side. They tend to have good connections so you can get things like ‘part worn’ tired for half the price too. (Usually only 50 miles on them where they’ve been moved from shipment to a fleet base where tires are changed to new as their policy)

6:20 interesting fact, silicone hoses don’t stick like that, but that actually would allow for some measurable leak, which is why EPDM is ideal in a cooling system for example

What brand of vaporiser do you use? I can't find the video you did that you say the brand. I need one for a 2012 mondeo 2.0

When putting the fluid in under pressure, can it get to the turbo (path of least resistance) ?