Technical training coordinator for EEC, Stuart Still, comes to the aid of a customer faced with the prospect of a catalytic converter whose nine lives were up. A killer coil turned out to be the main culprit. A great deal of my time is spent fault finding and diagnosing emission faults, some of which potentially ...

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Best practise guidelines from European Exhaust & Catalyst on forced DPF regeneration. When a DPF reaches a pre- determined particulate matter (PM) fill level (around 40%), the ECU will activate the regeneration process, which can inject up to eight times more fuel per stroke – a rate which is needed to produce temperatures in excess ...

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Stuart Still, Technical Trainer, EEC looks at an issue where the warning light was illuminated and the car was in ‘limp’ mode. I was recently contacted by one of our distributors and asked if I would try and appease one of his customers. He was insisting that the DPF he had fitted to a Vauxhall Zafira a ...

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Last year, on my visits to various customers, I made enquiries about the general demand for Diesel Particulate Filters. I was staggered at the lack of DPF knowledge, especially the procedure regarding installation, encountering answers such as: “We regard it as a main dealer product” or: “We need specialist diagnostic tools”.
EEC subsequently decided to eliminate one of these major objections. We contacted a diagnostic tool company and discussed the opportunity of becoming our partners in a venture to create a specialised hand-held DPF diagnostic tool.

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With DPF checks now included in the MOT inspection, complete component removals could result in a failed test and a subsequent invalid motor insurance claim. 
European emission legislation is becoming progressively more stringent with regard to the level of emissions that vehicles are permitted to emit. VMs are under pressure from governments to totally eliminate harmful emissions.

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