How to clean a diesel particulate filter (DPF)

Part 1/2 Will the DPF unblock& then regen? Hopefully save £300 if I can clean and regen or it’s gonna be an expensive month! How to remove and clean a DPF on the mk4 Mondeo. In part 1 with the car stuck in limp home mode I decided to remove the DPF filter and try to decoke it using some Wynns DPF CLEANER. I left the cleaner in for the maximum amount of time 8 hours & then flushed it out with boiling hot water. After doing this I allowed it to dry for a day before refitting, when refitting I used new 15mm nuts. I had already filled up using super clean diesel and I then drove for approximately 1.5 hrs on the motorway in 4th gear. On start up the car was sending white smoke out the back of the car but as soon as I hit 60 mph the smoke disappeared… in part 2 I will connect the fault code reader & check what fault codes are stored & go through the process of regenerating the DPF!
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[@Vanadeo]

I would recommend getting a decent map torch and get the nuts glowing and then use the nut extractor... Used a pair of really good parrot nosed pliers my self didn't snap any bolts/studs this way.

[@vincentyerkess7230]

Cool. Ill try that, seems easy

[@BugRacer1955]

One of the things I forgot to mention, when you go on your initial test drive after re-fitting the DPF I found white smoke come out the back, it’s actually nothing to worry about as it is leftover residue from the cleaning process and as soon as I drove on a faster road and I started driving at 60 the smoke quickly disappeared, hope this helps!

[@plugman1963]

Do the dpf learned values have to be reset after cleaning?

[@BugRacer1955]

Hello mate I bolted it up and give it a test drive, when I returned from the drive I hooked it up to the code reader to reset the values, I did cover a manual regeneration in another video

[@PurpleMetro33]

Can i bin this and fit a straight pipe instead

[@oweston89]

You could but you would still need the sensor mapping out and depends how lenient you MOT guy is, you'd be better off cutting it open and gutting it then weld it back up and then map out, would pass MOT and vosa checks.

[@chucky2316]

Is that a euro 4 mondeo

[@turtletom2878]

I'm not op but yes 59 plate will be mk4 mine is 09

[@Dave-qy1fn]

Music's bloody annoying

[@BugRacer1955]

these videos took time to create if you don’t like it piss off somewhere else

[@Dave-qy1fn]

@@BugRacer1955 piss off yourself if you don't comments don't post

[@KyrreSandvik]

Red texting terrible, impossible to read

[@BugRacer1955]

How about showing some gratitude, these videos took time to create