£700 to investigate adblue issue

[T6traveller]

Hi all,

My T6 2017 is currently in the garage with the dreaded adblue fault. The company has conducted an initial investigation (£120) now they want a further £580 to conduct a OIDS troubleshooting plan! Once the fault is found which could require a new tank I could be looking at £1000s.

A mate of mine can do the adblue delete for £200. This seems like the obvious option but what, if any, are the downsides of having this done?

Thanks,

Jamie.

 

[DXX]

It won’t be UK road legal.
Have a read of the UK MOT Manual.

 

[T6traveller]

It won’t be UK road legal.
Have a read of the UK MOT Manual.

That was my first question to him and he said he's never had a problem with passing MOTs?

 

[Bav]

Invalidates your insurance... unless you're planning to inform your insurer of the modification, in which case you probably won't have any insurance to invalidate!

 

[Sasquatch]

Having unsuccessfully given CPR to a 13 year old girl who died of a massive asthma attack brought on by traffic pollution id say its an incredibly selfish thing to do. If people cant afford to maintain or repair a vehicle they shouldn't have bought it.

Id want the investigation money refunded if they weren't clever enough to find a fault, take it elsewhere.

 

[Dellmassive]

Take it to another garage for a second opinion.

Sound like the first one don't know what's going on.

 

[Fairy Cringe]

Put all the sanctimony to one side. Delete the f***er.

 

[soldas]

Having unsuccessfully given CPR to a 13 year old girl who died of a massive asthma attack brought on by traffic pollution id say its an incredibly selfish thing to do. If people cant afford to maintain or repair a vehicle they shouldn't have bought it.

Id want the investigation money refunded if they weren't clever enough to find a fault, take it elsewhere.

That's the strangest take I've heard in a while.

Didn't realise you drove the VW Swamper push bike model rather than a more common diesel version the rest of us have.

 

[Badjamin]

Having unsuccessfully given CPR to a 13 year old girl who died of a massive asthma attack brought on by traffic pollution id say its an incredibly selfish thing to do. If people cant afford to maintain or repair a vehicle they shouldn't have bought it.

Id want the investigation money refunded if they weren't clever enough to find a fault, take it elsewhere.

that must have been horrific. Sorry you had to go through that. Hoping you got good couselling after.

 

[Lurch92]

Hi all,

My T6 2017 is currently in the garage with the dreaded adblue fault. The company has conducted an initial investigation (£120) now they want a further £580 to conduct a OIDS troubleshooting plan! Once the fault is found which could require a new tank I could be looking at £1000s.

A mate of mine can do the adblue delete for £200. This seems like the obvious option but what, if any, are the downsides of having this done?

Thanks,

Jamie.

Personally, I wouldn't - it would certainly put future buyers off.

What is the issue you are having? I had an adblue issue myself as I bought a van that had sat all summer with a half-empty adblue tank. I used a bottle of Wynns crystal clean, and that worked within a few weeks.

Anecdotally - with regards to the deletion of emissions equipment in general - a while ago I had an old 330d that I did a DPF delete on, simply by remapping it and installing the downpipe from the same model from a previous year - I had to get a bent MoT on it as it was technically illegal as the filter was missing. The funny thing was that it used to fast-pass the emissions test and the NOx numbers were no worse than when it had the DPF fitted... I think it was just mapped quite well.

 

[Lurch92]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wynns-Crystal-Preventative-Crystallisation-Additive/dp/B0BV7BNHDT/ref=asc_df_B0BV7BNHDT?tag=bingshoppinga-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=79920934455281&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=41471&hvtargid=pla-4583520402994601&psc=1

This is the one - I can see from my account that I bought it in January, so I might drop another bottle in with my next Adblue Fill just to be safe.

 

[DXX]

Personally, I wouldn't - it would certainly put future buyers off.

What is the issue you are having? I had an adblue issue myself as I bought a van that had sat all summer with a half-empty adblue tank. I used a bottle of Wynns crystal clean, and that worked within a few weeks.

Anecdotally - with regards to the deletion of emissions equipment in general - a while ago I had an old 330d that I did a DPF delete on, simply by remapping it and installing the downpipe from the same model from a previous year - I had to get a bent MoT on it as it was technically illegal as the filter was missing. The funny thing was that it used to fast-pass the emissions test and the NOx numbers were no worse than when it had the DPF fitted... I think it was just mapped quite well.

The DPF removes particulates not NOx.

 

[Lurch92]

ah yes, true - although I do imagine it is intended to reduce NOx also, what are those particulates of. It wasn't the dirtiest of cars after the delete, was my point... it didn't smoke any more or less.

My recommendation to OP would be to try the cleaner fluid before any further steps.

 

[DXX]

ah yes, true - although I do imagine it is intended to reduce NOx also, what are those particulates of. It wasn't the dirtiest of cars after the delete, was my point... it didn't smoke any more or less.

My recommendation to OP would be to try the cleaner fluid before any further steps.

The DPF is in place to collect and burn soot particles of 2.5 microns, you can’t see them with the naked human eye. These are the particles that pass through the lung linings into our blood. The DPF obviously collects particles bigger than 2.5 micron as well, the more particles the thicker the soot cake the more effective the filtration.
Regeneration then burns the soot and leaves ash.
NOx is reduced in the combustion chamber by using the EGR to cool combustion by recirculating exhaust gases.
NOx is further reduced in the SCR by injecting Adblue.

 

[BognorMotors]

We would happily take a look for you, but distance maybe the issue here - We have ODIS as well.