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Again your absolutely justified in your train of thought. But in my experience DPF's are a complete pain in the ar** as theres so many things that do go wrong with them. Ill be honest i didnt read your post about the DPF, so i couldnt give any advice. I have a Seat Alhambra 2015 at home (wifes car) that has given me quite a few issues with the DPF. but it turned out that it was a symptom of a different issue all together. The turbo was on its way out and the flexi pipe on the exhaust had more holes than a collinder. so the DPF was not auto regenerating and was clogging up causing the car to throw up all sorts of weird and wonderful codes! main dealer told me to buy a new dpf, the one in the car "probably had a crack in it". Another garage told me i was driving the car wrong, another garage told me the injectors were fec&**. all without doing anything other than putting a code reader on the car. Sorry you didnt get the responses you need to give you the info you need, but i wouldnt consider myself impartial enough on DPF's to answer questions on them! My idea of a DPF is Take it off, hollow it out and put it back and pretend its still there! Same as ADBlue - delete it out of the car and pretend to know nothing about it!

Thanks John for posting this under a separate topic. I am the ‘an admin’ you refer to in this post, and the person (Gareth is the name) who tendered apologies to you for the lack of response to your original post. Just to keep the record straight, I didn’t mean my earlier comments to be ‘supportive’, but simply to have been an out and out apology - and a plea for Q5 members to respond. Yes, hands up, responses from (in caps) members, is generally a fraction of the responses tendered to (in caps) members, and the ‘to’ responses are usually returned responses in replies to assistance given to the original poster. What can we do about it? A good question to raise -? Or are we to accept that ‘Generally Audi drivers want help, but seldom offer their help to anyone’. Does that sum it up forum members? The Moderators always attempt to do their best, and I’m sure I’m not alone in believing we do it freely, and to the highest standard we can, and are always open to be informed ‘you could have done better’, but apathy is quite a burden to carry! Apologies once again John, and regrettably, I have to admit in my experience on one of forums you mention, it certainly does point to a far far greater member member-to-member interchange that rather occurs on here. Perhaps I shouldn’t admit that, but… I really would be interested in any ideas you have John to improve the situation on here. We are always prepared to listen. FINAL PLEA on this topic:- Q5 OWNERS - PLEASE SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES WITH JOHN. ( no apologies for caps). Kind regards, Gareth.

So you need the dealership to keep it overnight and test when cold.