Well been to JBS and yipee got the car working! After travelling over 24,000 miles with the DPF delete and Re-map without the car missing a beat the car had a
problem and I took it to the nearest place to me a VAG independent
garage. The
garage had the diagnostic equipment and diagnose the
problem as a pressure sensor failure. After installation the
garage could not turn off the warning lights! After several phone calls between JBS and the VAG specialist, it was made clear that the VAG
garage certainly did not have the expertise and technical know how as JBS.
I asked the VAG
garage to install the old part and took the car to JBS!
After a long journey in Limp mode! I made it. Kev was the technician looking after the car. He plugged the laptop in and then checked the fault codes. Immediately he identified the car having a pressure sensor failure and this was his gut feeling. He put the car back to standard and checked the fault codes again and explained the technical issues with great efficiently i.e I understood what Kev was on about. He said that he was going to forced the car to do a controlled forced re-gen and took the car out to make sure that it was the sensor and that the figures will decrease. He took the car out and sure enough the figure on the sensor decreased but now was reading a steady amount but was not reading correctly.
Another
problem was that the bonnet realise somehow had got stuck and we could not get the bonnet open. Kev started managed to release the bonnet and noticed that the cable had loosened itself from the extension joint the cover from the joint it seems had been pulled open? Kev then fixed the issue and with a cable tie ensured that this cover cannot easily be pulled open and to try to stop this from happening again.
Kev did say that the pressure sensor was an old style one and the one he had in stock was of a newer type! Pressure sensor done, Bonnet fixed and Kev checked the figures with the new sensor and sure enough they were low enough for no warning lights.
A new updated map was mapped free of charge and another test drive from Kev and I was on my way again. The best thing about this is that even if the VAG
garage had tried to regenerate when the JBS map is on the car they could not and therefore JBS had built in a fail safe to ensure that the car can never regenerate which cause some serious issues!.
Kev did explain that the newer map had the same power output but the throttle response has changed slightly. The newer map on the car is brilliant and smooth and throttle response is progressive which is a lot different to the WILD map I had. What a bonus! The throttle response is good where as before I lightly pressed 1/4 of the throttle and the car will go however when I pressed my foot down further there was not a second wave of power! With this map you can target the amount of power 1/4 then 1/2 the car will go quicker! It is smoother and I can feel at the moment no loss in power! May have to get the car Dynoed again to check! Any cheap rolling road places anyone?
Kinjamin
I was asking the question, how am I supposed to know what a squashed Astra is? I thought you were reffering the diesel would "squash" the Astra in performance. I know the Astra is quicker, I have a friend who's got one prove that to me...
. The indy mechanic wanted to reset the DPF light by going through through the process? Had not time to do that so will try on Monday... Bit scared about that! 
