DPF Removal

[May6470]

Hi Guys,

Bar the legal implications and the damage to the environment , has anyone removed their DPF at end of life and seen it as a positive?

Avon tuning will do a DPF removal, EGR removal and stage 1 remap, with a rolling toad for £600.

To me that seems a lot cheaper than replacing the DPF.

What are people’s views?

Thanks

 

[Mr Pig]

I want to see a rolling toad?

 

[Seriously?]

 

[May6470]

Bar the toad issue has anyone has it done and can report haha

 

[Big Col]

check and double check that it's going to make it through an MOT after the DPF removal. Won't be good If an eagle eyed MOT tester clocks it and fails it.

I know a few folk that have done it due to failing or faulty DPF problems. Removing it and mapping it out was cheaper.

 

[Hickery1995]

check and double check that it's going to make it through an MOT after the DPF removal. Won't be good If an eagle eyed MOT tester clocks it and fails it.

I know a few folk that have done it due to failing or faulty DPF problems. Removing it and mapping it out was cheaper.

Removing it and mapping it out, instead of removing it and going stage 1?

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[Legojon]

You could also look at having the DPF chemically cleaned. Quite a few companies are offering this service now - including quite a few reputable garages (R-tech). I'm not sure how much / how well that extends it's life... but when I looked for my Diesel MK2 it was around £250 for a clean and £3k for a new DPF.

 

[Adrian300]

Yeah removing dpf is instant mot fail.... It will then be logged on dvla website as failed for this reason

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[May6470]

Yeah removing dpf is instant mot fail.... It will then be logged on dvla website as failed for this reason

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I understand that, but if there isn’t anything visually wrong then they won’t know it’s removed and can’t fail it?

 

[May6470]

You could also look at having the DPF chemically cleaned. Quite a few companies are offering this service now - including quite a few reputable garages (R-tech). I'm not sure how much / how well that extends it's life... but when I looked for my Diesel MK2 it was around £250 for a clean and £3k for a new DPF.

Thank you, I have started to look into that. I had a carbon clean today and bar the oil ash level being slightly high it’s not in bad shape.

It was more if anyone has seen improvements with it off.

 

[Big Col]

Removing it and mapping it out, instead of removing it and going stage 1?

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sorry I don't know the detail

the primary reason for the remap was to remove the DPF stuff.

In each case they werent after bhp gains it was to fix recurring DPF issues that nobody could resolve or wanted to continue throwing parts at it in an attempt to fix.