[knt]

Not ideal for diesel engines. If you're driving sub 5 miles per day, best would be to give it 10/20 miles blast on the motorway every week.

Rules of thumb used to be at least 20/30 miles per day would be suited to diesel and anything less petrol.

 

[knt]

mike1967 will know more as I only drive petrol cars .

Might be worth trying

https://www.holtsauto.com/redex/support/i-clear-blocked-dpf/

 

[knt]

Thanks a lot knt! I'll wait for mike's answer then!

Yes, I've seen this additive before in a Tesco's, it seems to be more popular than Wynn's, but I'll go to Halfords today to have a look at a greater range and ask for their help in choosing the one.

By the way, I came across this app & OBD2 package from Carly (www[dot]mycarly[dot]com/en/app/bmw/), and it has the ability to monitor the DPF (how many grams of soot there is in there), see that live as you're driving and even perform a force regeneration (although it just points to the ECU to do that when all conditions of temperature and mileage are met). I think that would ease my mind a little bit to monitor when it starts to become clogged (but before the light comes on) so that I can take it for a good ride on the motorway!

The Carly app will allow you to force DPF regen but pricey app.

 

[knt]

At least it's good that the app can let you DIY.

I was going to ask the same question.

Is doing that many forced regen safe for other car parts?

 

[knt]

Actually, it's a million dollar question @knt, 'cause even if I did this mini trip to clean the DPF without forcing the car to do it itself, it would simply keep filling with soot; probably until it gets near the 80% mark (and just before the light comes on) for the car to force it. In my very small experience, passive regeneration is super slow :/ So, even if mechanics or someone else tells you to just take it for a harsh ride every x weeks, or every y miles, it doesn't necessarily mean that it regenerates (or at least you have to monitor it). Fun fact, once I tried to see when it self regenerates, 40 miles of highway, with 40% of DPF loaded with soot, and it started doing it somewhere around the 35th mile. Thus, it did so by the time I almost got into the city, which is rather useless, as I would have ended with an almost loaded DPF by the time I reached home.

Long story short, DIY regenerations are awesome, but are they safe??

So by the sounds of it you've made good use of that expensive app even without using the other functions it has .

 

[knt]

BMW BTool DPF tool, might work with MINIs with similar diesel engines to BMW.

BTool Lite (FREE to test if compatible)

bimmer-tool Lite – Apps on Google Play

Clear fault codes and check DPF in BMW cars

play.google.com

BTool Expert (£9.99)

bimmer-tool – Apps on Google Play

OBD diagnostics, Live Data, DPF regeneration for BMW

play.google.com

 

[knt]

uk government have released a press thing staying they are now bring forward plans to stop selling all petrol diesels and hybrids from 2035 on latest unplanned thing to do,, 15 years to find and build enough power sources to run a country full full of battery powered cars, also the world needs to produce enough batteries to do that as well,, more like all cars will be only for the very very rich and working class people have a few options bus push bike electric bike maybe that will have the hell taxed out of them like cars do,, as when you remove all them cars you remove all that tax on tax on tax source, and governments and the very rich will find away to make us all pay ,, pity the next generations they have some really hard years a head of them,, one good think will come of it greed for oil form countries we dont really need to be messing with should stop,,

Will most likely to get pushed back and further back as they can't meet the target date nearer the time, unless the gov and private companies puts loads and loads £££££££££££.

Just look at the state of transport and trying to get that up to scratch, compare that with other countries with good reliable transports, how many years have they been trying?

Maybe, if someone from the Greenpeace party was Prime Minster!!!

Boris Johnson doesn’t get climate change, says sacked COP 26 head

Claire O’Neill says prime minister’s promises of action are not close to being met

www.theguardian.com