The warm up time and rubbish economy is certainly true of any petrol engine, more so on the old school ones with carburettors and inlet manifolds or indirect fuel injection but I have always believed that the great advantage of a diesel before they were saddled with DPF's was that compared to petrol they were far more economical in the warm up phase, certainly as soon as the glowplugs stop the
Eventually the RAC came out (via Skoda Assist) and diagnosed the DPF sensor has faulty. The old sensor says "Made in the US" the replacement has a different part number and says "Made in Malaysis". RAC guy reckons that the earlier US sensor was a prone to fail on many Audi's and VW's and that the later sensor is much improved. Model: Candy White Octavia VRS 2.0T DSG Estate. Posted 29 December, 2013. An article in Auto Express about DPF removal a few weeks ago mentioned the stance taken by insurers on this. All stated it was a performance modification and several (Admiral was one of them) refused to cover cars with a DPF removed. Motor: CBBB, 250 000 km, doteraz full skoda servis na LL interval. Address 01: Engine (03L 906 022 TQ) 8 mbar Particle Filter Different. Pressure 3 mbar Particle Filter Offset Different. Pressure 782 /min Engine Speed (G28) 0.0 Successful Regenerations 3.0 Requested Regenerations 22.7 l Fuel Consumption since Regeneration 410 km Driven Distance VW Golf 7 service DPF regeneration 100% detailedVCDS-VAG Release DPF service regeneration tutorialhow to regenerate DPF filter on VW naSLc51.