Buying a used Toyota Avensis

[2009joe]

39 minutes ago, mikejbry said:

It's my wifes car unfortunately, I notice minor changes quickly, but she only tells me when things are broken.... She says she was driving along a dual carriage way when the dash lit up, smoke, E stop slowed her down, engine ran awfully then died etc. 

The DPF won't be an issue again.... I have also just sourced some new injectors now, so fingers crossed this gets our car back on the road.

Truth be told, if the used car market wasn't obscene I would likely throw in the towel, but £3 to 4k literally gets you what £2k did 3 years ago, I am not willing to pay £3-4k for my usual £2k run around from several years ago!  Then again if this was my car I'd be replacing it with a banger thats for sure, but my wife hates change so I am forced to get something half decent.

sorry for your bother boss make you sick thungs like this happends to a toyota as tbh this is why we buy them its not to say there a nice looking car tbh they are boring as hell thats my point tbh i bought mine as i  wanted something dependable thats always there never break down. by chance what way you going to sort out the dpf  take if off bang out the center and map the dpf and egr out of the car .my friend has a nissan qashqai 1.6 td and well his dpf went on his aso he got the dpf cut open and insides cut out and it mapped out of the car  

[avensis_2018]

we all knows that woman don't know and don't care about cars or how to drive it, they just know gas/brake.

they like shoes and stuff .... cars=no.

[mikejbry]

12 hours ago, 2009joe said:

 

Rightly or wrongly, we knocked the guts out of the dpf, you could blow harder than what was coming out of the exhaust. So it had to be unblocked to aid with diagnosis. We then subsequently mapped out the dpf so the 5th injector didn't continuously fire in fuel.

All part of the diagnosis unfortunately, whether I replace the dpf will depend on how the MOT goes.

[2009joe]

12 hours ago, mikejbry said:

Rightly or wrongly, we knocked the guts out of the dpf, you could blow harder than what was coming out of the exhaust. So it had to be unblocked to aid with diagnosis. We then subsequently mapped out the dpf so the 5th injector didn't continuously fire in fuel.

All part of the diagnosis unfortunately, whether I replace the dpf will depend on how the MOT goes.

aye think thats the only way not sure when mot will start testing the exhaust smoke to find out no guts inside the dpf. i would love to know is it possible threw techstream to keep a eye on the dpf values so we would know when we should start to knock the guys out of the dpf and map it out before it wrecks anything else my car got 56k on the engine on a 2014