Newbie, Blonde girl...... Help!!!

[Dangerousfish]

I think the old bangers I drove in the 80s and 90s will have damaged more people than my THP will ever do. Besides it's not the amount of soot, it's the content of what's spewed out...

'Diesel exhaust is a complex mixture of thousands of gases and fine particles that contains more than 40 toxic air contaminants. These include cancer-causing substances such as benzene, arsenic and formaldehyde, as well as other seriously harmful pollutants.'

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Was with you completely until you linked to the DM

[lfcrule1972]

Wow the DM - arguement lost right there

I have to agree with cyclone, the tailpipes on my diesel DS3 are much cleaner than most of the petrol cars I see in the car park, must be invisible poisons

[cyclone]

Here are some good articles on the subject of gdi and soot. http://articles.sae.org/13624/ , http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...01679X15000432 and just found this one again http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2...lee_2014_o.pdf

If your interested, that's fine, if not well that is fine too

[Blonde girl]

Hi all thanks for the advice, but I am now contemplating removing the PDF and having a Remap as well, I think this may be an option and it should release a few extra horses.
I took it back today to trade in against a Mini Cooper S, and theB#stards offered me £3000 less than what I bought it for 6 months ago
So no matter what I will be staying with the DS3, I do love every thing about it apart from these problems.... Citroen have a lot to answer for I feel completely duped!

[lfcrule1972]

Ok, let us know how you get on, do you have a friendly MOT place in mind to do the MOT once the DPF is removed ? It's an automatic fail these days

Who's going to do the remap ? Jamie at SP Tuning is amazing, he owns a DS3 as well as being on the forum - http://www.sptuning.co.uk/

He's done loads of DS3s on the forum...

[Bigfeet]

Hi all thanks for the advice, but I am now contemplating removing the PDF and having a Remap as well, I think this may be an option and it should release a few extra horses.
I took it back today to trade in against a Mini Cooper S, and theB#stards offered me £3000 less than what I bought it for 6 months ago
So no matter what I will be staying with the DS3, I do love every thing about it apart from these problems.... Citroen have a lot to answer for I feel completely duped!

The offer sounds about right, £250 loss per month on average plus workshop prep, warranty, HPI costs, VMC costs, Valet costs and part exchange margin...

Not trying to be harsh but I tend to find a lot of people forget these things.