Mine had the original DPF in it but it was knackered, overheated fried. At the moment I’m trying to get to the bottom of the cause of all the soot, but no joy on that yet.
Glad I'm not the only one imagining this!
Welcome to the club!! Let us know if you get anywhere with it!!I have this exact same problem! Although I notice the tone of the engine change slightly beforehand, and the power doesn't seem to be the same. I have always thought it was a sticky injector causing it to leak fuel into the engine, as the MPG drops like a stone. Knocking it out of gear normally shows instant MPG of 99.9, but when this happens it's more like 35. Often if I play with the accelerator it sorts itself out, again suggesting a sticky injector. I find stopping the engine for a bit and then going again seems to fix it.
Yesterday I received MES, and plugged that in today. Realised the previous regen was at the exact time I last had white smoke. Now I find this page too..... The plot (and smoke) thickens..... Haven't had a proper look at all the sensors though, so will have to check those over the weekend. Took it to a garage previously and they said "Well there's no error codes, so can't be any problems"
It's a 2014 Fiat Ducato 2.3. Had the DPF cleaned last year as it kept going into limp mode. I blame that on the M1 roadworks. I do a nice long drive every Friday morning, but couldn't get over 50 for years
Hi Dizzy. I have a 2013 ducato doing this smoking just after every startup. The dpf has been mapped out and drilled and the egr mapped out and blanked. Does it everytime from cold and lasts about 5 mins. It's so bad that it can't be driven in a town until this stops. We can't find any solution at all. Currently trying to find a genius that can map out the regens if that is at all possible.Hi All,
I turn to you in desperation
I have a 2016 Ducato 2.3 which has, since I got it, had an issue where "every so often" (200 miles or so) to will belch out white clouds from the exhaust. The only fault it shows is the DPF input temperature sensor shorted to ground, doesn't do this every time but sometimes it pops up coinciding with the clouds. Sometimes it pops up without clouds. Sometimes (there's more) it also shows the ASC Unavailable / Hill Holder unavailable faults too.
I go MultiECU scan and that shows that the white clouds mostly coincide with a DPF Regen, so I'm guessing it's unburnt diesel released as part of the region process? MECUS shows the temperature of the exhaust ramping up as you'd expect, so is it dumping too much fuel in before the DPF is hot enough? On the way up the motorway last week she regenned three times in succession.
I've swapped the "temperature sensor at input to DPF" but that error still occurs from time to time. It's been into the garage a couple of times and they did find that the differential pressure sensor had a blocked hose that's now been sorted but no change (apart from maybe making things slightly worse cloud-wise).
Apart from the odd "cough" as the regen / clouds start the van drives great, if it wasn't for the fact you can see / smell the clouds you'd never know there was anything happening.
Googled this to death but can't find an answer. She's not losing any coolant and the oil level is fine. Mostly motorway miles so not loads of starting and stopping. Don't want to just fire the parts cannon at it until I can at least get a handle on what's going on!!
Help!!
Thanks
Iain
That sounds like a different thing. It should only try to regen when everything is up to temperature, in my case after at least half an hour of driving.
Thanks Dizzy. This one does it after about 2 minutes and clears when warm maybe 5 mins after. It's very white smoke just like a regen when diesel is injected on the exhaust stroke and hits the hot manifold.
Ooh, that’s good to know. The injectors were my next port of call
