Hi all.
Am asking if owning a diesel to drive 5 to 6000 miles per year, motorways mostly, is actually practical?
It will be driven weekdays only if raining.
At weekends I'll usually do 70 miles roundtrip motorway, very little B road driving.
I have been reading other advice, diesels only for 10,000 yearly minimum for the dpf health. But advice is never clear on journey styles.
Diesel. Driving style, not mileage.
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Re: Diesel. Driving style, not mileage.
You'll be fine - It's only the really, really short journeys (town only, short trips to the shops and back, stop start traffic) type of driving that can lead to inability to regenerate the filter. The engine ECU has various strategies in place to deal with this and when all these attempts have failed due to interruption of the assisted regeneration cycle, does it flag up the light to go for a brisk constant drive to allow regeneration to take place.
I only do 3-4k a year now, and it is mostly 6 mile round trips once or twice a weak with 36 mile shopping trip every 2 weeks - so my mileage and use would be far worse than your scenario. My vehicle has a DPF but does not have assisted regeneration - only passive, and no issues whatsoever. My biggest problem is the car battery! I'm never using it enough to charge it sufficiently, so Stop Start never works.
Just thought I'd check mileage since last 2 MOTs and with my latest MOT I did 3.78k miles this year and last year 3.3k miles!
I only do 3-4k a year now, and it is mostly 6 mile round trips once or twice a weak with 36 mile shopping trip every 2 weeks - so my mileage and use would be far worse than your scenario. My vehicle has a DPF but does not have assisted regeneration - only passive, and no issues whatsoever. My biggest problem is the car battery! I'm never using it enough to charge it sufficiently, so Stop Start never works.
Just thought I'd check mileage since last 2 MOTs and with my latest MOT I did 3.78k miles this year and last year 3.3k miles!
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