Why? Blocked DPF No Garage Could Solve After Several Repair Attempts On Ford Transit Custom 

It's good to see a mechanic who knows what he's talking about and i'm guessing is honest with posting this vid. This man is worth his paying whatever he charges to fix your car. Top lad & thanks for sharing 👍

I’m not for one second implying I’m a great mechanic but this is basic stuff isn’t it. It’s the same around where I am. All they want to do is get it out of the door quickly and get on with discs and pads. No one is prepared to diagnose anything. It’s the reason that we all have a bad name. Extremely frustrating

When my brother had this on his mondeo. Ford quoted an air flow meter and dpf as the cause = $9000aud = muppets. I got involved. The dpf was blocked technically. But the back of the car was covered in soot. So i removed the dpf and flushed it. 5% flow to 98%. Then checked over. Car was over fueling and oil leaking from the front bar. Last I checked, there wasn't anything holding oil in the bumper = boost hose was torn =airflow meter fault and oil leak! Then after a week of driving. Dpf was struggling again with regen unable = blocked fuel vapouriser as you have. If we followed ford. We would have been $9000 in the hole before the intercooler hose and vapouriser would have even been investigated, let alone, found. BTW, i removed the glow plug and cleaned the vapouriser in a zip lock bag filled with intake cleaner. Put into an ultrasonic bath = spotless and running strong another 100k km later.

This is the first video of your that I’ve watched, I’m impressed. You are working in a parking lot, on ramps and in the rain. Undeterred, you calmly fix this vehicle as if it’s normal business. My hats off to you sir because around me here in the States I don’t know of any mechanic that would do this. I don’t think you charge enough for your service.

If I took a blowtorch to my van it wouldn't end well 😂. Fantastic to see a mechanic that actually knows what they are talking about 👍👍

And this is why I do my own maintenance as garages either don't know how to fix the cars they sell or don't give a damn, or more likely, want to rip off unsuspecting punters by unnecessarily putting in new parts. My mother thought she heard a scraping noise from a wheel and brought her car to a local garage last year when I had covid and couldn't help. They told her the noise from her rear wheel was a bearing. I told her to leave it until I was better so I could have a look at it. So I did and was it the bearing???? No it was the dust shield at the back of the brake caliper that was rubbing on the disc. I pushed it back into shape and hey presto, noise gone. Saved her the 300 quid they wanted for a new bearing fitted......which in itself was a monumental rip off.

I've had the little pumps for the vaporiser fail before . Theres an activation for it so you can check it's doing something . The new pump from ford is hundreds, it's the same £5 pump that's inside my chinese diesel heater fyi . Great job again , I can't believe you can do all that without swearing.

Brilliant 5* job & in such awful weather.. dedication to his job this chap.👍👍💪

My boss, an undertaker, had a Vauxhall Vivaro with the same issue. It came back after an MOT and would not go over 30 mph. It had done 79000 miles, and only ever lightly loaded. The garage said it would cost £1300 to fix, so he got rid of it and bought a Mercedes van instead. Modern diesels, with so many of these gadgets fitted, are a damn nuisance.

Can you imagine the youth of today climbing under a van in the rain with no complaints..................................where do we go when mechanics like you retire

Well done mate. A tech who knows his diesels! Cheers from Australia!

Very informative, great job, good to see someone who knows what they are doing.

I’ve got a 16 reg transit works van,61k on the clock,gets serviced every year and it’s never missed a beat,gets a blast on the motorway at least once a week,never had a issue

How good is it that the Geniuses invented something that catches all the bad stuff, then burn the bad stuff back out again. And when the bad stuff cant be burnt, we put more bad stuff in there, then burn that bad stuff out....all back into the atmosphere. 20 years ive been a mechanic and Ive never gotten over how stupid the DPF and EGR system is.

I travelled 300 mile round trip on Monday to see Jimmy I didn’t waste money by going to other garages locally to me..

I’m 6 months into a limp mode / blocked DPF problem on a 2013 Ford Transit and over £2k with two different garages, new glow plugs, new DPF and still in limp mode. Vapouriser being fitted today so will be £2500 spent, I’ve spent the whole value of the van and no faith it’ll solve it. Thousands of people will be getting ripped off with DPF issues who cannot afford these bills.

Best Mechanic on RU-vid.From another Mechanic 👍

Well done I cured my BMW 330d's DPF around ten years ago. Had dealer software on my laptop and just put wynns diesel gold treatment in the tank and went on a 2hr motorway drive. Watched the back pressure drop from around 140 mbar to about 15 and it let me reset the active regen sequence. Job done. Since then Ive been sure use wynns gold or more recently dipetane on a regular basis. Saves alot of heartache😊

Second video I've watched, had to sub and like. Certainly seems very knowledgeable and honest, these are the kind of mechanics we need, not rip off dealers.

You know a mechanic knows his stuff when he has a mobile service.

The reason why this keeps happening is because mechanics don't actually know how cars operate. They don't understand how each component interacts with the next so they just load the parts cannon because it's not their money.

Loving your videos thanks. Im nearly afraid to buy a new diesel car with all of this emissions lark that goes wrong... Im so close to ordering a new vrs Octavia diesel but dont want a life of dash lights 😂 Greetings from Ireland

It seems to be the reason for most breakdowns these days with people having problems with the Particulate Filter system and it's sensors. I few years ago looking around for a family car I bumped into an old school friend at a car sales place, he now has his own garage and was looking for a small car for his wife, he told me that there was a ford C-Max at the back that had been sold a few times but returned, he told me it should be £4,000 but they will take £1,000 sold as seen. What wrong with it was that it had a block EGR (exhaust gas recycling) valve, I asked my friend how easy was it to repair, the official way is about at £1,000, the unofficial is £10. So I paid the garage £1,000 and my friend and I fitted a thick blanking plate to the EGR valve and he turned the amber check engine light off and it ran perfectly and drove well for a car with only 55,000 miles on the clock, I put it through it's MOT and got told by the testing station that it's emissions levels where lower than standard. When it got to 125,000 miles, a neighbour offer me a £1,000 when I mentioned I was thinking of getting a newer car, so sold it him a few weeks later the turbo went on it so we when to the scrap yard and found an identical one off a very low mileage Mondeo and helped him to fit it, the C-Max is now up to 150,000, and still running well and passing it's MOT.

We had similar issues with our work transit a few years back. Finding someone like yourself who actually understands the system, is like finding a needle in a haystack. When speaking to some of the so called 'specialists' who my boss took it to, it seemed like I understood the system far better than they did.

You know your stuff mate and shame a lot of these kid on specialists.

Great videos once again. I have been told by a van mechanic that the Dpf filter only really lasts 100k and then they really need to be changed as they have done their work. Have you ever come across this?

Hero doing an evil job in the rain...

Many thanks for showing us....we are blessed! Working in the rain too..

Tim Hope Alls Good and Great Work - Always Great to see what you've been dealing with and hear from a Clued up Pro. I asked (a while ago) - what you thought regarding Chipping a Mk8 21 plate 130PS Transit Crew Cab Tipper to get more power, you replied to say - better to have it Professionally Mapped - Without hold you responsible in any way what so ever, - would Mapping be detrimental to the engines life span at all ?. We are looking to have a New Transit soon but having difficulty getting a 170PS with the Vehicle Configuration we need at a viable price - but we can get a 130PS to our Vehicle Configuration Spec- So just considering having a New Vehicle Mapped to 170PS or more if not detrimental to the longevity of the Engine.

I’d rather have a Vito that’s been to Pluto and back than buy one of these Fords that’d been round the block and back

My audi in the last 2 days is showing the fault code P200200! I wish you were in the Newcastle area. 😔 you definitely know what your doing. Great videos too!

Boggles me how shops can be providing these services while seeming to have NO CLUE WHATSOEVER about diagnosing them. Did they even read the fault codes??

You should drop one in an ultrasonic cleaner to see if it does anything. Be interesting video and I think we would all love to see that one. Maybe do one off the van not heated up, and one after you get the torch on it.

Not many people in the auto mechanic world who know what they're doing any more, most of the "specialists" are ex-dealership technicians who've never worked on anything less than 5 years old, and where serious problems got shipped out to external contractors, all they're taught is to plug in a diagnostic machine, follow a set of instructions and replace a predefined list of parts. I was trying to get coil springs replaced on my car recently, I must of called 8 difference garages, most wouldn't quote and two told me they didn't have the right equipment for the job. I've seen people do it on RU-vid, with nothing but a trolley jack and a 15mm socket.............. Seems like nobody wants to do the heavy/tough/dirty jobs any more.

Geez, ford still uses fifth injector regeneration strategy ? we've mocked their engineers for a full straight day for making euro 6 out of euro 3 by simply burning fuel like crazy at customer expense and they still didn't learn :/ for dpf issues: 1. make sure to use ACEA C2 / C3 / C4 engine oil, that will drastically extend the life of DPF by not producing sulphur ash - however a off vehicle clean would clean it up. 2. make sure that thermostats are in order - to low coolant / oil temp may prevent ECU from triggering regeneration AT ALL. 3. make sure your pressure / temp sensors on dpf are in order - regeneration requires bare minimum of 620C, if ECU thinks that temp is 640C but in reality it's 600, there will be no regeneration what so ever. 4. make sure your injectors are clean, the injector seals are not leaking, common rail pressure is in order - that will give you bad spray and very smoky output clogging up dfp quickly 5. make sure that your air intake charge pipes are not leaking and relates sensors (maf / map) measure correctly as this will give smoky output clogging up dfp quickly Now if you reeeeeaaaaalllllyyy feel in the mood for crazy vehicle mods, you can buy your self exhaust insulating glass-fibre tape and insulate exhaust manifold + turbo + piping to dpf along with dpf. On normal driving that shall increase dpf temp by 30 - 70C lowering ECU need to use fuel to boost the exhaust temp. Also make sure that all the exhaust joints are not leaking any fumes (even the turbo VNT / waste gate arm can exhaust leak pressure) - that pressure drop will cost you dpf temp making ecu squirt even more fuel to heat up the dpf.

Bloody dpf, egr, ad blue is slowly killing diesel and some of the are a absolute nightmare to work on aswell especially if the dpf is arounf the back of the engine.

i know nothing about modern engines and am not mechanically minded at all, but I have to say having watched a few of these videos, you're a genius.

Technology……..I had an old transit van that had done over 200.000 miles and I had no problems with it these new vans are just trouble designed to spend lots of time in the service bay,

A mechanic has to know soo much more than anyother trades man. And if he makes one mestake hes the worst in the world every fucker talks about him. And mechanics do NOT get paid well enough shit money .

Hat off to you working in that pissing rain lad! 🎩

Thankyou for your video's I have learned such a lot that when I am asked to look at a dpf I have more confidence, talking to other garages they don't have a clue TBH like I used to be before you I have watched them all, time well spent

Tell him to use that diesel on the long runs not in the urban conditions he will have no problem. If he use his van in the urban conditions only he needs petrol . Its no brainer, this dpf will be blocked again in 2-3k miles of city driving.

Time to get a petrol engined van

This is a simple check and takes 2 minutes to diagnose on a Transit, simply put a mitivac onto the fuel hose that feeds the vaporizer and if it draws a vacuum you know its faulty

If the vaporiser isnt blocked whats the best way of testing the glowplug in it

Good repair Jimmy, didn't look like that dpf had been off to me. So many cowboys in the trade now, bet they reset the codes and tried to force a regen and sent it back out. Cheers for the upload mate.

Changed car now but if the DPF in a transit is similar to that of a VW this could have saved me thousands of pounds.

Fantastic video's Just show how it is east to get scammed. Good to heare somone that atually knows what is going on.

feel like i need to bring my car up to bedfordshire and find this guy . muppets down here haven't a clue its been in 3 times the same blocked dpf

DPF's are the worst thing ever invented here about soooooo many problems with them on so many diesel cats and vans.

When ecologist laws destroy the motors😅 Use chemicals for clean motors 😂

Wouldn't it be nice that instead of trying to fool the emissions tester vehicle manufacturers would just build as clean running engine as possible and admit there is just no clean power to be had from diesel fuel without going big.

I’ve got a y reg ford transit and got exactly the same problem

I own 3 diesels and they all have egr and dpf delete. No more lights and no more issues.

Thanks for all the helpful videos Jimmy learnt alot so far, iv just cleaned the dpf on our 2010 Volvo v50 2.0D with the launch cleaning fluid and the pressure values dropped all the way down to around 8mb on tick over and 80 @ 3k rpm but after driving 5 miles its blocked up again. The was excessive amount of diesel gone into the oil so im thinking the injectors might be the problem? It doesnt smoke at all Only stored faults are p242f trap blocked and p2452 for pressure signal but the pressure sensors working correctly. As are temp sensors etc.

Proper mechanic. Great to watch. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.

I wish i had a mechanic that knew his stuff 😢 my garage charge me £64 to tell me the engine lights on then ask for £600 to mapp it to save them looking for the actual problem, really p me off 😣 not that id pay more than 225 to get it mapped they think im a fool

I did not know about the vaporiser.

People don't really know how to drive a diesel 🤷

Hi, you really know what you are talking about. I have the same problem with my 2017 Citroen Relay as you have shown with that transit custom. I’m £0000’s in with Citroen, including a new engine at 22k! Where are you based so I can get you to sort it? Thanks

Modern vans have way to much tec. Give me a 90s van any day.

So many garages are fookin useless a fixing but fookin great at charging ! Had Mini Countryman auto diesel , wasted £1450 for the “ reputable established “ garage to change turbopressure sensor and fit egr cooler I didn’t ask for ! And take the interior out cause the carpets were damp ! The car went into the garage because it went into limp mode , I said I don’t want to spend a fortune cause I already wasted ££££ before ! I said if you can’t fix it for a fair price , just charge me for diagnostic and I cut my loses to sell to wbac ! So after a bill of £1450:, garage said it’s definitely your turbo , just spend another £1600 and we will fix ! Fookin robin crooks !

Was wondering what Launch Diagnostic tool you use and would you recommend it?

😅😅😅😅Looks like the van was like a block arse.

As a new subscriber, it would be really useful if you could recap what the fault(s) were at the end of the video.

From. What you are saying all the garages need to get up to speed with this proses on DPF s they need to spent the money on the equipment and Educate them selfs on how DPF work ,old jimmy

I sure do wish you was here in Inverness to do mine as mine blocked up as a machanic back home in Bradford fitted a cheap £16 crank sensor and sent me on my way with the lights on saying it would be fine, just bought and fitted a proper sensor from vauxhall at £182 and all the lights went out immediately so just ordered a DPF from a company down Leicester but sure wish you was here

Busy busy busy 😂

If have ford custom 2015 2.2, my battery light come on after 5 min of driving, i done all new battery ,new alternator, clean the earth leads, gone to 2 ford garage can't find a problem, i afraid to drive at night in case the battery goes flat, anybody know the problem, thanks

All transit gives this problem

I recently changed my vaporiser on my MK8 Transit 2.2 RWD thanks to your videos. It was really easy. My OBDII tool didn't have an option to prime the vaporiser thought, but it`s done a few regen`s whilst driving since so I know it`s working. Differential pressure is around 7 at idle now.

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Any “garage” that can’t diagnose that fault first time round, shouldn’t be taking money from people.

Hey mate, I've got a Nissan navara 2.5 diesel that had a very leaky turbo. I've replaced it but now the dpf is blocked and is in limp mode. Is my only choice taking it somewhere to have a forced Regen done or would I can of dpf cleaner get it clean enough that it'll do a Regen by itself ?

When putting the fluid in under pressure, can it get to the turbo (path of least resistance) ?

It's ford what do you expect

Doesn’t seem like they train mechanics to diagnose and fix anymore like this, they just train part replacers. Best off getting chummy with a proper mechanic and paying them cash on the side. They tend to have good connections so you can get things like ‘part worn’ tired for half the price too. (Usually only 50 miles on them where they’ve been moved from shipment to a fleet base where tires are changed to new as their policy)

Hi would you by any chance be able to recommend any places in Dublin for similar dpf cleaning ect, Thanks

Remove dpf and egr valve, get them mapped out

Fscinating! Never watched your videos before, but have been searching for information on DPFs and diesel engines, as I've been looking at a Citroen Berlingo automatic, that only comes with their diesel engine. I barely drive 3,000-4,000 miles per year (recently retired), much of which is urban - I do very few long, hard drives. Looking at this video makes me think I probably shouldn't go near a diesel car!

A very interesting video for me as i gave up the spanners 30 years ago! I drive a Euro3 Volvo D5 so it has no DPF etc, It was great to learn about cleaning out a DPF and this guy is very knowledgeable and knows what he is doing! 👌

Had the same problem with my ford ranger and i diagnosed it with a cheap mobile phone scanner. How 3 garages missed it ill never known

I fixed my DPF with a mason hammer and a welder.. Seems to be working ok now..

Excellent post, this was the difference between a grease monkey and a mechanic that knows his tihs, your worth your weight in gold these days

Every garage is struggling to find proper qualified and knowledgeable technicians these days ,all the good techs have left and been replaced by filter spinners! ,the good thing is ,a decent tech can now demand a good wage !

Truth is other garages turn them down because they don't want the hassle from the transit. I work for Ford too thankfully not on the commercial side ha! The cars are bad enough! 😂

Is it just the 2.2ltr that has this problem or can the 2.0 get it too ? . Also what causes it ? Thanks

Finally a video showing how to fix this! Now, could you come over to the states and fix our two transits for us?

Can’t stand these kind of comments, load of bollocks “no other garage could solve” implying your the only mechanic on earth that can resolve these issues 😂😂 get over yourself

Those garages would soon learn how to do the job, if they only get paid for a successful repair, Makes my blood boil

My older shape 2014 transit I bought off a fleet operator who amazingly supplied Aldi and had their own fleet , the transit was for fixing the scania lorries , anyway it’d had loads spent, new turbo dpf and all sorts and 5 mins after buying it the elm came on 🤣 Took it to a guy who ran a fleet of transits and he checked the glow plugs and said one’s down and these need all the glow plugs to work or it won’t regenerate and the egr was not working due to one thing or another so I got a new glow plug and egr fitted and now it worked properly . Moral of the story is find someone who knows their onions not couldn’t care less keep throwing parts at it and hope you go away

i had a problem with a vauxhall zafira and mechanics were baffled ,i ended up changing emissions fuse and ran like a dream

Great content mate, can I ask you what is that diagnostic tool you use? I look to purchase Icar soft ones, but yours looks like it's a software on tablet which I like better. Cheers and keep up the good work.

I diagnosed this of the vid title.

How is that even legal , working on a car out in public like that?!?

The DPF is such an environmental saviour. Not.

At 6:45 are you pumping the liquid in the downstream pressure measuring tube? Does it not goes straight to the exhaust? Or it is the upstream pressure tube and it goes to the turbine and the DPF?

I drove a mark 5 transit until it fell apart with rust brilliant van done all my own work wouldn’t go near a Ford garage I have a mark seven now 15 years old gos great still do all my own work,it’s a pity about the rust problem that ends transits life.wouldn’t take a new transit for nothing now

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I did a ranger a few years ago, same engine, lads in the garage I started in, fully loaded the parts cannon and reset all adaptations and let it back out for a few more weeks, I had a look at it and glow plug faults, replace them and test drove for a few days noticed the engine temp wouldn’t go over 65 degrees, stat was staying slightly open not letting the engine up to temp to do a regeneration, Replaced the stat and never seen it again after that