Toyota DPF problems

[taxi1990]

all my cars have been black.
fuckin love black cars.

Black and white cars look great but they both are very hard to keep clean.

[Shallow Hal]

all my cars have been black.
fuckin love black cars.

Black and white cars look great but they both are very hard to keep clean.

With the weather we've been havin lately,cleaning the outside is not even a thought!!

[Belker]

https://www.donedeal.ie/view/36077888

KEN BUY THIS CAR

That will be my next car in 2027 Panel, 35k new in Silver with a black interior and custom made leatherette seats from some  auto crowd in blackpool fer a Monkee.

[Belker]

I got my cab back last Friday, here's the receipt fer anyone interested;

[Belker]

The Toyota service manager loved to talk and as much as I tried to quieten him, he went on about stuff that I did not understand fer a good 20 minutes, in the end charging me another Monkee fer something that caused the DPF light to come on but seemingly was not the DPF ??

[Belker]

I did ask that if the DPF was not at fault in the first place, then why was I charged 5k last Chrimbo to replace it ?
Which led to another 20 minute speel  from the Toyota guy who seemed to really know his stuff on DPF's, wheter he was telling the truth or not is another question ......

[Belker]

DIPETANE.

I asked the Toyoya service manger about dipetane and he said (during his 10 minute lecture on it) that it is great temporarily and will get you past NCT but eventually the soot temperatue will rise and the DPF will not be able to clean it.

[Belker]

Like I said earlier the man loved talking and he stated to me that it was a BMW engine in the 171 Avensis and then he stated; "BMW sold us a 'Pup' the couldn't control the DPF as they wished and the engines were no good, that is why we stopped selling Avensis diesels in 2018".

To which I replied; "But it was very Fookin nice of Toyota to sell on this 'Pup' of an engine to me !", to which he did not (fer once) reply.

[Octavia1]

Like I said earlier the man loved talking and he stated to me that it was a BMW engine in the 171 Avensis and then he stated; "BMW sold us a 'Pup' the couldn't control the DPF as they wished and the engines were no good, that is why we stopped selling Avensis diesels in 2018".

To which I replied; "But it was very Fookin nice of Toyota to sell on this 'Pup' of an engine to me !", to which he did not (fer once) reply.

Ken ...yu told me last yer yu didn't believe me wen I said I am a qualified automobile engineer an yu called me a spoofer ..that's grand ....I'm a little out of the career I chose by  bout 18 years since i dropped out of society wen i realised it was all a con ...an I'm  an out of date  washed up crypto gambler who's fond of bourbon , probably insane. an talks tru his hole most of the time ..........but trust me on this ....
GET RID OF THAT HEAP OF SHITE FOR YUR MENTAL HEALTH....
Yu can't bring yur money wit ya Ken....go inta toyota tomorrow an buy a brand new camry hybrid an scrap that antique an chain round yur neck ........enjoy yur life wit trouble free maintenance......yu can even do the maintenance yurself .....alll yu hav to do is change the oil an maybe the occasional wiper blade .....
Dipitane me hole ....
That ting is costing yu more money wen yu cud be saving on repairs , maintenance,  fuel an trips to the bleedin off licence an the phychiatrist.....
Fuk sake Ken......dump the cuntin ting .....yull be dead soon enough .....I promise ya
 

[Belker]

The basic history of the car, after taking educated DPF advice from Taxi friends, my local mechanic that I trust and just about everyone else.

Bought the car in July 2020 with a 12 month warranty.

DPF light came on 13 months later in August 2021, I didn't know what a DPF was back then !!

Tried a few various cleaning agents and motorway driving which always cleared it fer 3 months.

My local mechanic told me Toyota were the only ones able to solve the problem and booked me in with a mate of his in Toyota to diagnose the problem, they wanted €2.5k to replace it in the summer of 2022.

I decided to get it cleaned by JD motors who specialized in DPF cleans and my local mechanic agreed it was a good idea.

Paid JD €600 fer the DPF clean and thought that was the end of it in Aug 2022.

3 months later and the DPF light is back on again, contacted my local mechanic and JD motors and it was agreed that it must be a turbo problem, so paid JD another €1450 to fix that and replace some Fookin flywheel thing.

The day I was supposed to be collecting the car from JD motors in January 2023 at 1pm I was told the car was still being worked on and would not be ready till 3pm. Which was a Lie when I went up to collect it at 3pm the car was in their carpark still completly frozen over from the night before ??

Through 2023 the DPF light came and went and I took the advice of many Witch Doctors and added Dipetane and all other sorts and drove it at various speeds on motorways, they all worked fer a small amount of time but the DPF light always came back on.

I eventually 'Bit the Bullet' and booked it in to Toyota to have the Fookin DPF replaced in early December 2023, they baulked and insisted on trying something which cost me €300 and a half tank of fuel, but the DPF light was off.
Two weeks later it was back on and now Toyota wanted €4.4k to replace the DPF fully, I eventually, reluctantly agreed, a day later they found some other Fookin problem and needed another €300 to fix that, which I again paid.

Eventually got the car back mid December, now over €7k out of pocket and the Fookin DPF light comes back on last week just 3 months later !!

[Belker]

After my overall experiences so far with the DPF problems, is that I think I may have been led up the garden path by many professionals who actuallty didn't have a clue themselves how to sort the DPF problems.

Fer me with 20/20 hindsight being a great thing, I reckon I could have saved myself the €8k in DPF costs so far by just putting a decent cleaning agent in to the cab diesel tank every time the Poxy DPF light came on and gave it a half decent 20 min run out the motorway.

Anyways'nall I still do Love me 2 liter D4D Avensis, she purring like an Daytona Angel this weekend just gone and we went through some Fookin serious weather down here last weekend, if only it didn't have the Poxy automatic handbrake and the Fookin DPF I would love it a lot more.

[Octavia1]

Ken ....its false economy..... yur bean rode up the bum an bled dry ....
It's actually cheaper to buy a new car than keep entertainment that  demon ....
I highly recommend ya buy a new car ...yu won't know yurself ....I tink the real problem here if ya don't mind me sayin is ...that yu don't recognise that " change " is inevitable an that a time of " change" has come opon ya ...an that yur puttin it off in the misguided an blinkered opinion that yur saving yurself money an grief ...yur not .....despite the fact that yur a bookie math genius....wen it comes to yur taxi yur not lookin at all the facts an benifits of jumpin in the deep end of movin on from the past an  that parasitic  heap  o shite ......I urge ya to tink of not only the economics but yur mental health an attitude .....look at all the blokes on here who hav baut new cars recently.....ther all makin more money ide wager cause they love gettin into that new car wit the new car smell an no fear of lights flashing or havin to form an intimate  relationship wit the local backstreet mechanic whos payin his mortgage on ther backs ....
Hal since he got that new car hasn't been on here nearly as much ...he's too busy ....merc the same....delighted wit himself savin on fuel , workin longer hours wit gusto an trouble free motorin ..evin johnny wit his new motor has found a hole new world of pleasure an motivation in taxi drivin .....yur yoke is Killin yur spirit Ken an draining yur wallet .......
I'm a mad cnut Ken as ya know but I'm bettin to fuk yur tinkin of a new car ....an I'm telllin ya if ya are .....to go for it ....

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

keep bleedin tellin people and i just can't fuckin get through to them.
it's ingrained in people that you use Dipetane once a year before an NCT or some bollocks or when a DPF problem appears.
YOU USE DIPETANE AT EVERY FILL UP SO YOU DON'T GET A PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
diesel is a dirty burning fuel. not only is the soot collecting in the DPF it's cacking up the EGR, intake manifold and the injectors.
You get a complete burn of the fuel with added Dipetane so there's no carbon and soot build up and it'll work to tackle the backlog of build up that's already present.

[Korky.]

@ken, I don't think any of these "professionals" set out to rip you off, but once their diagnostics were proved wrong,  they were happy to steal your cash anyway,  they all saw the same fault code, and decided.... its must be a clogged Dpf... let's clean it.... when that didn't work... it must be a flywheel,  let's change it!... when that didn't work.... it must be super clogged, let's change it.... when that didn't work... it must be a faulty sensor... let's replace it... etc etc..... in reality,  their guess is no better than yours...
If it was me, I'd drive on without doing anything else, and clear all faults 15 minutes before my next nct.

[John m]

Ken  Check out fast chargers in Douglas or slow chargers on street .Diesel and Petrol set to go up .It still might be worth your while taking the 20K and getting a EV the MG5 is the best value motor on the Road @15K and bits .An ev using street fills might still be cheaper to run than a solid fuel motor ..Looking at The Early School Leaver I doubt the Grants will be available for next year .