DPF replacement...$4000!...Anybody know a good exhaust mod place in Melbourne?

[h100vw]

Sweet so when u say flash you means it's just a matter of plugging it in and off you go?

Mate how long will it take to arrive? I know the other boys waited 4+ months?

Cog you should have an auction for your pipe and chip mate, you might have a few hungry buyers!

The wait was due to the shipping. If you didn;t mind paying for airfreight, you can get one a lot sooner. I shipped some G60 arches the day before I moved to Australia. They arrived the following week. The problem with the DPF pipes is the length, they exceed the maximum length that most shippers will handle as they are 1.2 metres long when packed up.

The flash is just the same as for any other ECU from the last 10 years or so and is loaded via the OBD port.

Gavin

[Greg Roles]

Sorry Gregski, Ryan is in a jam with his car, so it would be a bit of bad form to capitalise! ( nice thought though ).

For the record, the "cat" IS the DPF cannister the delete pipe, well..... deletes! Once this header goes on, the major restriction is gone, just a resonator and the huge rear pancake muffler remains, and the rear pancake can be removed with little effect to noise.

Gav neads lead time for surface shipping, as it's a 10-12 week process fellas!

[STV4SYT]

Hey Guys,
Have recently bought a gt tdi 08' with 104,000ks...
DPF light has come on and stayed on after 1000k's...
Long story short, fully blocked, forced regen at VW didnt work, $4000 replacement! .

So I think I will have to go the DPF delete option...question is though, can anybody PM me an exhuast place in Melbourne that could take out the core of the DPF (to still look standard) before I get Custom Code tuning....

Thanks for the help!!

That is so close to the warranty expiration i would be pushing them to do it under warranty.


3 years 100,000km


your only concern might be if it hasnt been serviced at vw for the whole time.

Definitely if you were the original owner with a full vw service history at the same dealer they would be doing it without question.

[h100vw]

Ryan bought it second hand. That was the first thing I said, goodwill. Not having any of it......

Gavin

[silvershadow]

Ryan bought it second hand. That was the first thing I said, goodwill. Not having any of it......

Gavin

You can be certain the first reason for rejection would be the use of bio-diesel contrary to VW specifications - both you and the dealer cannot prove this is true or false so it becomes a "mexican stand-off". You would have to prove the DPF was faulty when the car was delivered.

No need to say who has the advantage in this situation.

[parso_rex]

We can do the DPF delete in the tune up here in Sydney if there is a need. I've been holding off as there are quite severe penalties to have a car without a DPF in place in NSW - maybe I'm just getting a bit soft.The price of a replacement DPF is equally absurd. Thinking about it though the tune can be done and then whether or not the physical DPF core is in place is not my/our problem.
You can do the same with adblue not that its an issue for anyone here

[Gregski]

Anyone in Melbourne?

[GoLfMan]

Anyone in Melbourne?

h100vw will pop over from Adelaide to do a DPF tune on your car with CC

(feel free to chime in again Gav!)

[ryder01]

Hi Guys,
In response to the comments above and just FYI for future reference.

Yes, the car was within time frame and just over K's for warranty. I put in a claim with VW Aus. for cover under a "goodwill" gesture but they decided not to cover it as I am the second owner and also because all servicing wasn't done at a VW dealer.

I have to say, Jim from Burwin was amazingly helpful and did as mich as he could to help me out even though the car had never been touched by them and he had no incentive to do so. So a hat tip to Jim at Burwin, I know people love to pay out on the "stealerships" etc etc but these guys were far more interested in helping with the cause than another well known Private Volkswagen specialist. So props to them, forced re-gen and manual re-gen attempt (couple of hours labor) at no cost too, of course not Burwin's decision as to whether it would be covered so have no gripe there.

Also, big props to the guys here who all pm'd and went out of the way to help a stranger on the inter-webs with a problem...

Good forum here.

[Greg Roles]

Update!!!!!

First DPF delete tune has been done in Oz over the weekend. Looking forward to hearing all about it!!

[parso_rex]

Update!!!!!

First DPF delete tune has been done in Oz over the weekend. Looking forward to hearing all about it!!

Sorry, I hate to bust your bubble but your a few weeks behind. We've been doing this for stock cars for a while and there's no need for a full remap or expensive delete dump or whatever , Its equally as viable for a fully remapped car too of course. Maybe I'm overly cautious in promoting these things but its really quite a naughty thing to do but still... it can be done very easily.
Oh yeah is not just VAG either we can do a lot of cars now too.

Cheers

[h100vw]

Sorry, I hate to bust your bubble but your a few weeks behind. We've been doing this for stock cars for a while and there's no need for a full remap or expensive delete dump or whatever , Its equally as viable for a fully remapped car too of course. Maybe I'm overly cautious in promoting these things but its really quite a naughty thing to do but still... it can be done very easily.
Oh yeah is not just VAG either we can do a lot of cars now too.

Cheers

Second, that's like 1st loser...................

[parso_rex]

Second, that's like 1st loser...................

LOL
hey I don't have a dedicated down pipe as such though (however I do have a big drill bit). I really need it for the trucks but unfortunatley its not an option at this stage... unless I sort it myself and that won't happen for about 5 years at my current rate
There's going to be heaps of these things dying soon too, I can smell it.

[gldgti]

... or not smell it, as the case may be...

I think you're dead right though - the DPF looks like something just a little bit too sensitive for the real world to me - and clog up's appear to be on the rise. No doubt there'll be a design change soon enough.... I just wish the emissions laws and standards were constructed around a bit more common sense. Why does a small car that only burns 4-5l/100km of fuel really need a dpf... imagine the fuel savings if they could fit them with a straight pipe form the factory!

Back in the old days, the mk1 diesel got an omission from %NOx emissions in california, because even though the percentage of NOx was high in the exhaust, they used so little fuel and consequently produced so little emissoins overall that it made sense not to worry about it.... no such luck nowadays. Ahh well, back into my hole I crawl....

[sh|tbmxrider]

LOL
hey I don't have a dedicated down pipe as such though (however I do have a big drill bit). I really need it for the trucks but unfortunatley its not an option at this stage... unless I sort it myself and that won't happen for about 5 years at my current rate
There's going to be heaps of these things dying soon too, I can smell it.

Trucks? I take it your talking about Isuzus?

Funny thing is, I sell MAN trucks, which use EGR with a PM Kat for Euro4 Emissions.... They have been running around this wide brown land for the last 3 years, and they haven't clogged one yet.

The Isuzu's we sell out of our same dealership.... Well, its probably easier to list the trucks that haven't had DPD faults....

Maybe cos of the design of the MAN one is constantly regenerating, rather than than occasional re-gens?