Manual regen options
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Trailering
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Manual regen options
Looking for some help in regards best way to manage my trucks regen process. For background it’s a 2017 f250 crew cab. I have my DP saturation screen turned on with forscan as well as being able to turn off auto regen and do manual regens. During the summer I tow a fifth wheel camper and there is plenty of opportunity for the saturation to climb and the truck to regen while driving. However now in the winter the truck is just my daily driver and my work commute is only about 8 miles each way. Watching my saturation levels the truck rarely gets above 50% then I’m assuming I hit the millage interval and it does a regen but the drive is short and I don’t realize it’s in regen so it only partial regens and gets down to 25-30. Then slowly climbs back up to 50 ish percent. Would it be ok to turn off auto regen and let the saturation climb to 100% so I can do a manual regen knowing I’ll go over the milage interval? Or is it better to just let the truck do the thinking and keep doing partial regens?
Hotshot
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I would let the truck do its own thing and not bother with intervening
if you get to 106 for example and it starts to regen 5 minutes away from home and lets say it drops to 90% , then so what...when it gets to 100% or so it will just start to regen, then lets say it was a short trip and you land at 85%, again...so what...next day you drive again and the cycle continues.
what harm do we think is happening if the dpf does not get to zero, 5%, etc before we shut the truck off?
if you get to 106 for example and it starts to regen 5 minutes away from home and lets say it drops to 90% , then so what...when it gets to 100% or so it will just start to regen, then lets say it was a short trip and you land at 85%, again...so what...next day you drive again and the cycle continues.
what harm do we think is happening if the dpf does not get to zero, 5%, etc before we shut the truck off?
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Trailering
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how long have you been doing that and have you had any issues?
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Trailering
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I would let the truck do its own thing and not bother with intervening
if you get to 106 for example and it starts to regen 5 minutes away from home and lets say it drops to 90% , then so what...when it gets to 100% or so it will just start to regen, then lets say it was a short trip and you land at 85%, again...so what...next day you drive again and the cycle continues.
what harm do we think is happening if the dpf does not get to zero, 5%, etc before we shut the truck off?
if you get to 106 for example and it starts to regen 5 minutes away from home and lets say it drops to 90% , then so what...when it gets to 100% or so it will just start to regen, then lets say it was a short trip and you land at 85%, again...so what...next day you drive again and the cycle continues.
what harm do we think is happening if the dpf does not get to zero, 5%, etc before we shut the truck off?
Cargo Master
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This is the way I did it on my 2017 and I've been doing it on my 2022 as well. I have compared fuel dilution by doing oil samples and letting the truck do its own thing shows some fuel dilution where doing it my way shows none. So that's the science why I do it. I also feel like subjecting the exhaust to the least amount of extreme heat cycles the better. Plus every regen uses extra fuel. That's my .02 on this subject, to each their own.
More Turbo
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This is the way I did it on my 2017 and I've been doing it on my 2022 as well. I have compared fuel dilution by doing oil samples and letting the truck do its own thing shows some fuel dilution where doing it my way shows none. So that's the science why I do it. I also feel like subjecting the exhaust to the least amount of extreme heat cycles the better. Plus every regen uses extra fuel. That's my .02 on this subject, to each their own.
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