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I bought a 1.6 TDCi Focus just over 6 months ago. It had 82,000 on the clock. I wanted the DPF version, to get the lower tax rate.

I don't drive massive distances, avergae 7,000 a year. I had a petrol before that avergaed 23mpg, my diesel averages 36mpg. The ecomomics of the newer car work out cheaper.

That is until I have to top up the EOYLS every other month and replace the DPF every time the MIL light comes on @ a cost of £1800 a pop. (<- This is not actually true, but if you read enough posts about DPF then you might believe it is.)

The DPF on my car should have been changed at 75K, and was advertised with FSH, so I enquired if it had been done. The guy selling feigned a complete lack of knowledge regarding the DPF change and implied I was talking rubbish. I HAVE HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH THE DPF (touch wood), 3000 miles later.

Is the DPF "guranteed" to fail on 1 in 2, or 1 in 10 or 1 in 1000 or......

Of the 1000's of diesel cars sold with DPF how many have actually failed? And of these failures how many were down to people ignoring the MIL when partial regens have occured?

I think there is a lot of hype about how crap DPFs are because the silent majority don't post on forums saying "DPF still working fine".

So for all those people who scaremonger about how evil DPFs are, especially ones who don't even drive diesels, could they please backup their authorative knowledge with some published statistics on failure rates.

Whilst we are talking about it, what do we mean when we say failed DPF. I assume it to mean clogged up beyond an on car regen with enough failed regens to set liump home mode. Even then I would think the DPF could be taken off and cleaned with some oven cleaner (designed to remove greasy soot (think about it)) and a pressure washer. The limp home mode would still need to be cleared, but a lot cheaper than a complete replacment (just a thought, I bet dealers/indies make more money out of replacments, rather than off car cleaning)

So anybody on here got a DPF that is NOT giving them any grief (other than me)?

I know I'm tempting fate;)