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Originally Posted by Rascal
I have recently purchased a 2008 V70 SE 2.4D Geartronic and have been looking at threads relating to regeneration of the DPF.
It appears that most owners are unhappy with their DPF and the way in which Volvo have been economical with information regarding the ongoing maintenance problems, that can arise.
Wouldn't the following options have been nice if they had been included in the Driver Information System....
1. An indictaion of the DPF status - eg. 25% Full or 50% Full etc.
This could replace the useless Average Speed option and perhaps allow you to plan some 'regeneration compatible' journeys.
2. A user selectable option, to manually 'Request DPF Regeneration'
This would allow you to request a 'forced' regeneration, if it was known that a long journey was about to be made.
Regeneration would only be carried out if the Engine Management System agreed that the DPF would benefit from a regeneration, during the journey.
If this option was never used, then 'normal' DPF regeneration would be triggered on an as-needed basis.
I think that Volvo owe us a more flexible solution regarding this DPF maintenance and the above would surely be achievable via a software upgrade.
I am sure that in the long term it would be in Volvo's interest to address these DPF shortcomings and lift the image of their diesel engines.
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I have just joined the volvoform because of a soot filter problem because we are, quite frankly, at our wits end. We bought our Volvo v70 for local driving (3 kids) and had the extra seats fitted in the back for ferrying extra children round too. We were very explicit about why we wanted the car and also bought 3 volvo car seats from the dealer. After 4 weeks we got soot filter full message and could not do a regeneration as we did not address the problem straight away as we did not realise the significance. The car was under warranty and the garage did a regeneration and the Particle filter was replaced. We did not understand the significance the impact of our "local driving" on the DPF system as we were not told that this car was not suitable for local driving.
Since then the soot filter full sign comes on and sometimes we are able to regenerate it (we have to drop everything and drive down the A3 for 20 minutes) but other times we cannot regenerate it ourselves and this is particularly true when the weather is cold. Now the car is no longer under warranty if we cannot regenerate the filter we have to pay £150 a time for the garage to do it. I have lost count how many times the car has been in the garage or how much diesel I have burnt up driving along A roads to try and regenerate the filter. On one particular occasion the power had gone and I was crawling along the A3 dual carriage way at 30mph with my three kids in the car!
The car simply rules our lives. I feel I cannot drive it locally any more as I just know every two weeks the soot filter full sign will come up. What is evident from joining this forum and reading the posts that this is a problem for many people and I feel let down by Volvo if they sold us this car knowing that it could not function on just local driving. Any advice on what to do? We simply cannot afford a new car and no-one will touch this car when they see its service history!! I am thinking of writing the Sunday times/BBC watchdog and will be contacting Which Legal team as I feel Volvo know about this issue and are fobbing people off and in the meantime their customers are left with cars they cannot run or afford to run. Your comments will be helpful!!!