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Offline tbakes

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Why Does a TDI 170 Have a DPF But Not The 140?
« on: 31 January 2014, 14:01 »
I've been trying to find the answer to this for a while now, so hopefully someone can shed some light.

Why does the mk5 Gt TDi 170 have a DPf but the 140 doesn't?
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Offline th3_f15t

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Re: Why Does a TDI 170 Have a DPF But Not The 140?
« Reply #1 on: 31 January 2014, 14:21 »
Some crazy EU law would be my guess? Because the 170 produces more carbon it now has to have one, something like that?
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Re: Why Does a TDI 170 Have a DPF But Not The 140?
« Reply #2 on: 10 March 2014, 19:03 »
It is all to do with emmissions. 170 needed a DPF to comply. It was a bit of an afterthought which is why they can be problematical. The later CR engines were designed to work with DPFs, so problems are far less common.
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