Yeah, after seeing the screen on the diagnostic equipment it seems to be the same message, ie an extended forced burn off of eolys treated carbon.cachaciero wrote:Lynnzer wrote:OK guys'gals.
Had it done.
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So, to my mind the actual removal of the filter to clean it out is also really not needed as it self cleans with the diagnostic equipment. I'll look into this further.
For now though, I'll do without and only do it if I get another warning.
Not really, mini tutorial follows
Carbon produced by normal diesel burns normaly at about 550C carbon produced using eolys treated diesel burns at about 450C. Every so often the regen system kicks in which raises the exhaust temp to 450 ish thus burning off the carbon.
Some driving patterns mean that the normal regen action may not happen so the exhaust starts to clog with unburnt (treated ) carbon.
This is where the Diagnostic Tool / Lexia comes in, it has the ability to force the engine to run an extended regen cycle which will burn off all the EOLYS treated carbon.
cachaciero
So it's likely I'll still need a flush out of the filter then? 105000 done so I've had pretty good mileage so far.
I just love this model C5 and want to hang on to it for at least another year or two but Citroen seem to have a huge disrespect for their customer base in the prices they charge for relatively minor things.
For instance, I'm driving around with the front offside tyre stem snapped in two. I asked about replacement at the dealers and was told around £70 and a reset charge of the monitor. No way did they even advise me of the possibility of replacing just the stem.
Fortunately I found this out from this gloriously informative forum, paid the £25 for a replacement and will get it fitted for free when I replace the two front tyres next week at my local tyre centre.
I was thinking of going for the new DS5 Hybrid as I guess it should save a fortune on diesel. Brochure details say it will do 74.4 mpg combined. Take 10% off for typical sales pitch, it's still double what I get with the C5 at 34.4 mpg.
It looks nice, feels good to sit in, has a style which is right up to the best but lacks the great suspension of the C5, doesn't have a tourer/estate version which I find useful and doesn't even have the c5's storage of 30gig of music on a hard drive and of course lacks the SIM slot which I find essential. Bluetooth isn't quite the same.
What puts me off more than anything though is the price. At that sort of money you're firmly up against a whingeing wife......
I may reconsider if a 0% offer comes on but in the meantime I've had a couple of bumps recently recently repaired, had the aircon refilled and sorted out and once the tyre valve is done will have a car that is still in pristine condition with full leather et al.