Hi All, My niece's car has just failed its MOT. It's the 1.6 diesel. First smoke reading was over 3, average got down to 1.63. The compliance plate on the door pillar puts the limit at 0.55, so it's still a mile off! As yet, I don't know how many miles it has done. She's not famous for looking after her cars, so it probably hasn't been serviced for a while.
I'm guessing that as a 2012 car, it should have a DPF? If so, I can't really work out why it is emitting ANY smoke, to speak of, at all? She has no warning lights on, and the car (I'm told) drives fine. She's had it about 5 years and it has managed to pass MOTs so far, although I'm told it struggled on smoke last year, but just scraped a pass.
Last weekend, she took her family to North Wales in it, so it got a bit of a run, and she put some Redex injector cleaner in it for the run, so it should have had a reasonable clearout. They've tried taking it for a thrash, but that still hasn't helped.
Any thoughts, anyone, please?
I'm guessing that as a 2012 car, it should have a DPF? If so, I can't really work out why it is emitting ANY smoke, to speak of, at all? She has no warning lights on, and the car (I'm told) drives fine. She's had it about 5 years and it has managed to pass MOTs so far, although I'm told it struggled on smoke last year, but just scraped a pass.
Last weekend, she took her family to North Wales in it, so it got a bit of a run, and she put some Redex injector cleaner in it for the run, so it should have had a reasonable clearout. They've tried taking it for a thrash, but that still hasn't helped.
Any thoughts, anyone, please?
It's amazing how often people inadvertently trap the seat belt buckle in the door shut when they slam the door, and it scratches the smoke figure off the corner of the label. Really, manufacturers should have to put it in a more prominent position... I'm just a bit wary of doing that, as it's a retest, so they know what the value was last time they checked it!
