Lantyan, Cornwall: Mobile DPF Cleaning

Why diesel particulate filters clog round Lantyan

Lantyan is a small village, and the day-to-day driving that goes with one is the poorest type for a DPF. Think about a typical week: Lostwithiel School and home, Newham Lane at a standstill before the hour, a five-minute run to Co-op Food, a dash to Lostwithiel. Not much there runs long enough or runs hot enough to finish a regeneration. Unburnt soot that should clear collects instead.

Unless you have a standing need to head out to the M5, over 50 miles from Lantyan, or across to Truro under 25 miles away, entire weeks go by without a sustained stint. Geography is unhelpful.

Where the motor stands is where the DPF is cleaned across Lantyan

Most people do not expect this detail: the filter stays on. The job happens with the DPF still bolted to the car — on your drive, in a work car park, wherever the vehicle can sit for a while.

First a scan. Running ECU data, the soot load as a percent and as a weight, the sensor readings, the glow plugs, the connected parts — all of it logged before any of it is cleaned.

Soot and ash that a regeneration alone will never shift are loosened after that, by a cleaning fluid passed through the access port on that vehicle, which expands inside the filter. Where the filter is heavily blocked, expect a second pass.

Next, a regeneration burns off everything the clean loosened. That is a monitored drive out of Lantyan if you are present, or a static regeneration where the car sits, with the real-time data checked once done.

A second check verifies the change, resets the warning light and lists anything still outstanding. Both read-outs are emailed, so you keep the before and after figures recorded.

What DPF cleaning comes to in Lantyan

The treatment begins from £299. A call-out charge is added to every visit, and pays for the call-out itself, the booking, the scan and the advice that follows.

Once we have what you own, and about what the filter will take, the price gets agreed by phone. A single price for all would not be honest. A pair of things shift it: what you own, and where you are — Lantyan itself, over at Milltown, or otherwise out in the PL postcode area.

Cleaning that will not work is not treatment you pay for, and the check is what says so. Because the visit, the check and the advice have been done, the call-out charge still holds.

If the light comes back inside that period, an engineer comes back out to Lantyan — the work includes a 30-day warranty including aftercare.

Questions Lantyan drivers ask about DPF cleaning

Is a long drive enough alone?

If you catch it early enough, and the car is not in limp mode, sometimes. Ten minutes to Co-op Food and back will not manage it; motorway speed, held for some time, will.

The visit runs how long?

That is typically around 2 hours, though a heavily blocked filter can need cleaning twice, which runs on.

Price in Lantyan — what is it?

Cleaning begins from £299, and the call-out charge on top pays for the visit, the diagnostic and the advice. Settling it is done by phone, since what you drive and where you are both shift the figure.

Is it necessary for me to be there?

The motor requires a place for two hours or so. Nobody expects you to be in it. If you would rather come along, the regeneration can be run as a monitored drive instead.

Coming to Lantyan — how soon?

You are looking at often same-day or next-day, though it depends what is already in the diary. Call 0303 330 1830 and you will hear what is free across the PL area.

Is the filter lifted off the motor?

Cleaned where it stands, on this service, so no. We will not lift filters off or put them back on, either way.

The light returns — then what?

Aftercare sits inside the 30-day warranty, and that includes an engineer returning to Lantyan.