I just bought a 2022 F350 with 8k on it, I'm now over 10K and have not seen a single regen. How often can I expect it with normal city/highway driving? The DEF gauge, like it if it works, has gone down to half. I don't recall 2015 going that far w/o a regen, both trucks stock. Haven't hooked up the 5W yet but looking forward to that.

 

DPF regens are shorter and more frequent on newer trucks. My 2022 regens every 496 miles like clockwork, and it takes 20-ish miles to execute. I monitor this with a Banks iDash gauge pod. There’s no regen indicator built into the truck. If you watch Avg MPG closely, you may detect it, otherwise they’re pretty much unnoticeable. DEF consumption is not linked to regen as an indicator.

With ForScan, you can add visibility to DPF soot load, and the ability to suspend the start of a regen cycle until your plans call for sustained highway driving. The iDash just shows you how-close you are to the mileage-triggered regen, and whether regen is “Active” or “Off.”

 

If auto regen is turned on, it should do a regen about every 500 miles. My '22 does consistently at this interval. I have turned auto regen off and now manually turn it on when the DPF filter gets to 90-95%. This has stretched out the regens to 600-700 miles. I purchased my truck in January this year. My DEF fluid is at about one-third of a tank remaining. I have not put DEF in it since purchasing. I just hit 5,000 miles over the weekend.

 

lower trim trucks have the auto-reg box you can disable it. Then when prompted you can do it.

496 miles like clock work until I got it added on my lariet.

 

You won't notice a regen most likely.

 

I have not seen any sign of regen, I do have Forscan but like someone+ else recent I do not want to screw anything up. I'm just literate enough to really screw if up and I don't know anyone close that is. Guess I need to break it out again and see if I can understand more.

 

Unless you are doing a lot of short, stop and go unloaded driving, I wouldn't mess with it. Without my iDash, the only way I have been able to tell that mine is going through a regen is to watch the instant MPG display. Besides that, nothing sounds or smells different. Then again, I do watch mine and I know when it is going into a regen because I turn it on and off, so I wait until it's time and then I tell it to regen. Because of this, when it's time, I plan trips to drive uninterrupted down the highway to perform a regen until completed (and let the EGT's cool back down), so the fan doesn't even need to kick on... Also, if you tow, most likely it will passively regen.

If you want a for sure way to monitor it, then you can either turn it on with Forscan (and know that any trim 22 can have it turned on, not just the lower trims) or you can use a monitor. The Banks iDash is a great monitor to use. It will allow you to monitor all sorts of data, including the regen status, as well as the EGT temps.

 

Living in New Mexico in an area they don't even deliver mail, we have to go get it, "town's" 80 miles south if I need something you can't find in the closes town of about 5000. The majority of miles are highway, little in town or pulling the 5W. I would like to see the % I had that at one time in my 2015, I know I won't have command Regen but I would like to watch the &.

 

You can turn the DPF% on using the information on line 96 of the Forscan 2020 SuperDuty spreadsheet.

As far as command regen, no one truly has command regen... at least not until certain parameters are met first. You can use the Forscan program itself to initiate a static regen, or if you decide to enable the Auto Regen checkbox in your trucks instrument cluster (lines 98 & 99) you will get a version of command regen. This means that once the DPF hits 100%, or once you hit the 500 mile trigger, you can then simply turn auto regen back on while driving and it will begin a regen. But this isn't necessarily because you commanded it, so much as the parameters have now been met and it's back on again, so now it's going to do it's thing. Also, once the DPF% hits 100%, you can stop the truck, put her in park and begin a static regen by following the prompts on the DPF screen.

Being that you drive 80 miles every day or how ever often to get your mail, it sounds like you really shouldn't have to worry about enabling the auto regen checkbox though... just let it do it's own thing, and if you still want to watch the DPF% screen, turn it on with Forscan or use an aftermarket monitor.

 

Just let the truck do its own thing, really don't need to worry about it.

 

Thanks I'll get out to the shop in the AM. Town of any size is 80 miles, one way, I only have to drive a couple to get mail every few days. We got a dollar store a couple years ago, three gas stations and a fire station, town I get my mail is 1500.

 

or do the Forscan and have options. Sounds like I would still have the do nothing option.

 

If you use your truck in the way he does you could get away without thinking about the regens. For some of us that short trip our trucks often, and rarely if ever tow, it isn't a bad idea to keep an eye on regens and ideally facilitate a more complete regen when the time comes. Ford has enabled the DPF monitor on all the 23's, on your '22 ForScan will do it, the dealer could do it on some years, or there are a bunch of plug in monitors that can give you regen info and more.