(30 Apr 2016, 9:52 pm)South Tyne Lad In cars if the depollution Filter is defective, It will send it into limp-mode to keep within the Emmisions range. If you can just pull over and turn the car off and turn it back on again, That should reset the filter.
Though the car in the long term will probably have to visit a garage to get it resolved before it gets worse.
Nope - not with this DPF. It's a long term thing. Not helped by the fact that Mazda are pigs with their computerised stuff - Husband could get his car serviced for 2/3 the dealer price at, say a Bosch garage (there was a great one in Stockton, near to where he used to work - highly recommended by Which?, too) but he'd still have to take it to the dealer and pay for a whole hour's labour for them to connect it to a laptop and say yeah, it's been done.
There were 2 solutions to the DPF. The moral one was to get it replaced at an eyewatering cost. The cheap one for a car worth less than 2K was to get it drilled out.
Instead, we part exchanged it for another Toyota Avensis (had one before that we took to £125k miles). Not the least bit exciting, but solid as a rock (far more than VW and the supposedly "reliable" Audis and Beemers) reasonably priced dealer service, crackable software when it gets too old to be arsed to pay dealer service prices (Mazda change theirs every year so it can't be cracked, forcing all owners who want a full service history to go to their dealers, but we discovered that their vehicles don't get that old, anyhow) and easy enough to recognise in a big car park!
Our only sadness is that Toyota are discontinuing the Avensis, soon. Ours is 61 reg, so we need to decide whether to trade it in for another nearly new tourer (brand new cars are a mug's game) or keep it until we kill it. We no longer need to put a wheelchair in the boot, so strictly don't need the big boot anymore (a roof box would suffice for occasional luggage) but the Auris isn't big enough in the back for long legged adults. Husband is a bit sniffy about the Vers
Os. We'd probably end up with a Rav 4! (which wouldn't be completely stupid in Co Durham, given that we have a lot more Winter than elsewhere.) We'd love a landcruiser, but are a bit too green and crunchy for one of them. Plus, new ones cost about what our house did!
