My car had its first service on Friday and one comment from the service department was that during the service they carried out a forced DPF regeneration as the car has never carried out an automatic reneregation. Seeing as I rarely drive in stop/start conditions or in creeping city traffic and drive mostly on fast A roads, motorways and the odd spell off-road in low range, I was not expecting the DPF to need to even do an automatic regeneration as the car is given the beans when the opportunity arises (pretty frequently!). Anybody else been advised that their car has had to have a forced DPF regeneration at a service? I would have thought that there would be a system check mode available to verify if the DPF is operating correctly rather than having to force a regeneration and burn a load of extra fuel. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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They can check for pressure differentials at the DPF, and also a soot volume, so they can see just how empty/full the DPF is

If the car doesn't see a need to regenerate, then it won't

If there is a fault with the system, then it won't allow a forced regen

I wonder if it's just a routine check, or they get paid from JLR as a "warranty" issue

According to workshop manual DPF software also has a mileage trigger, so even if the back pressure signal doesn't initiate the regeneration it should revert to milage based regeneration.

It had only done 7300 miles in the 363 days since I took delivery - 1st anniversary is tomorrow 28th. A lot of the miles have been rack up with 1 run north from London after delivery and 2 further round trips to London and a lot of local fast A roads in Central Scotland. It is the lowest annual mileage I have done in years, usually exceeding 10000pa but have been doing more time overseas than on leave in the last 12 months. At least it didn't cost me to have the regeneration as it was included in the prepaid 5 year servicing deal. It's off to Devon for a week soon too. It is also the 1st new Land Rover product I have had since 2007 that has not needed a single warranty repair at the first service, unlike the two Evoques and the FFRR I have had in that time. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW