When you take your car to a professional garage for a DPF clean, the whole process can take up to 2 hours to complete. An expert mechanic can put your DPF through a process called forced regeneration. During this process, a mechanic will be able to burn away the soot particles in your diesel particulate filter. started and you need to start back at point (2) 5. The DPF forced regen process will take between 40 and 80 mins depending on how badly blocked the DPF is. NB. Do not touch the accelerator or clutch as this will cancel the regen cycle. To purposefully cancel the forced regen, place the vehicle into 1st gear. 6. So less than 6000km in a year - which would be regarded as very low mileage for a diesel. A 171 that had 63,000km when you bought it in 2020 was averaging over 15,000km a year under the previous owner (s). Multiple short trips without a long one to trigger a regen will cause the DPF to clog up. Dear forum members, Im an fresh an new owner of an Mazda 6 2.2D. Its make year 2013; may, it has 112.000 miles (180.000km) on it and has always been Forced Regen Question. Hey so im sure you guys have seen my issues . so long story short I dunno if was my harness or whatever but I ws getting a check engine light for my injector in the exhaust. We get a storm today randomly go outside to move the truck for the snow and poof no check engine light and regen works again. 1305 posts · Joined 2009. #20 · Jun 22, 2016. As I understand it, a 'normal' regeneration is triggered by back excessive pressure measured on the engine side of the PDF. That being the case, regeneration (if required) will be triggered by brisk acceleration to 70 MPH when the engine is fully warm. Naughty Nigel. Ok, so here's my first post. There is a reason for joining as some of the information in www land is conflicting and difficult to navigate. Will try to keep it short. I've owned 3 Mazda 6 series and 2 Mazda 3's. The current stock is a 2009 Mazda 6 Diesel and a 2012 Mazda 3 Maxx sport. Lets Warm up the engine completely (engine coolant temperature 80 °C {176 °F} or more ), depress the accelerator pedal and maintain a vehicle speed of 20 km/h {12 mph} or more for 15—20 min. Bring vehicle to a Mazda dealer. *1 :Turns off when PM accumulation amount is 5.0 g/L {0.31 lb/ft3} or less. *2 :The diesel particulate filter indicator AtI6b7D.

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