Should I be worried about buying a diesel with dpf?

Landvoigt

You do not have to replace a dpf everytime. Sometimes you can clean them with a special dpf cleansing material and a regeneration process.

forgotmyname

Fishy. 2 US users in the same old thread in one day.

Where to buy a C110. Ebay, Amazon etc etc etc....

chib

Ultrasonic wrote: »

I realise this is an old thread but surely most 10 year old VAG diesels don't even have electronic parking brakes? My 05 Octavia doesn't.

VW Passat's from 2005+ have EBP's.

The Octavia wouldn't as it's built on the Golf platform, the Superb is on the Passat platform.

Hyperxr

My 2 pence: Avoid the BMW 330D/330i even with a barge pole. Cheaply made cars with plastic parts in the engine bay, cannot check oil level and very unreliable. You will spend half your time in the garage repairing the thing, all for another part to fail.

Check out Scotty Kilmer videos and his thoughts on BMW. He is a famous youtube mechanic

JustinR1979

Hyperxr wrote: »

My 2 pence: Avoid the BMW 330D/330i even with a barge pole. Cheaply made cars with plastic parts in the engine bay, cannot check oil level and very unreliable. You will spend half your time in the garage repairing the thing, all for another part to fail.

Check out Scotty Kilmer videos and his thoughts on BMW. He is a famous youtube mechanic

Ah yes the 330d, all the car you could ever need in estate form.
55mpg and 0-62 in 5.6 seconds.
What a pile of junk.

Ultrasonic

chib wrote: »

VW Passat's from 2005+ have EBP's.

The Octavia wouldn't as it's built on the Golf platform, the Superb is on the Passat platform.

Interesting, thanks. Going by the following link, this would affect Passat's from 2005 on, so not strictly to 10 year old cars:

http://www.which.co.uk/cars/choosing-a-car/buying-a-car/car-recalls-investigation/case-study-vw-passat-/

An interesting fault to be aware of, although I still suspect that the vast majority of 10 year old VAG diesels do not have EPBs.