DPF car issues..

[HB14]

I'll try and cut down 8 months of hell.

Bought a car from a vauxhall dealers.

A week later a DPF warning light comes on..I didn't know what it even was..I do now.

The car car breaks down all the time, the costs to me are awful and I'm totally and utterly stresssed over it.

The garage say it's me not the car, I can see why the car does what it does but it's not suitable for me (something they knew upon selling it me)

i can't afford more bills, my work is suffering due to the car being off the rd and the cost is slowly bankrupting me.
Can anyone please help.

ive complained to everyone I can think of, but i am going round in circles.
Tha ks

[xs2man]

Re: DPF car issues..

I'm guessing your doing a lot of short, town miles? Rather than big long drives? If that's the case, then a modern diesel is obviously not the correct choice for yourself. You may be able to mitigate future repairs by taking the vehicle on longer drives to force DPF regens, and that might help stop or reduce the chances of such breakdowns happening again. Be aware though, that it may need an "Itallian Tune-Up" though. So a decent thrashing. Whether that takes the form of simply being in a lower gear than really required, or having a bit of fun, is up to you. A friend of mine drove the 500 miles to here, all motorway obviously, but he drove it so slowly that he had DPF issues when he got here. So he had to drive for 10 minutes out of every couple hours home, in a lower gear, to keep the revs up, to clean out the DPF.

Of course, you could move the car on, and get something more suitable. But if your only 8 months in, there may be significant negative equity in the car, or if it's a lease, then there is little chance of "escaping" early without significant costs.

At the end of the day, the car is not fit for YOUR purpose, but I guess the argument would be you should have known this. And bought a car more suitable for YOUR needs. I would imagine that would be the line they would take, should you try to return the car on that basis. If the car is still having issues when driven on long runs, and more "diesel appropriate" drives, then it'll be more likely a car issue, then you may be able to employ other rights afforded to you from consumer legislation. That stance would obviously be helped out with independent reports on the vehicles condition by specialists in that field. But that would cost you to diagnose, and Vauxhaull or whoever they (the sellers) use to diagnose the issue will unlikely blame the car here.