The Close Mobile DPF Cleaning, Hampshire
The workshop effectively comes to your door across in The Close, and the motor stays where it is.
Your car isn't taken away and the DPF doesn't need to come off. The DPF engineer brings a fully fitted van to you, treats the unit where it sits, runs the regeneration and completes the job there. You'll know the number ahead of a soul setting off, from £299, and you're without the car for about a couple of hours.
On-site DPF cleaning in The Close, from start to finish
Somewhere for the van to park, plus an engine that can be run now and then, is the whole of it.
After that, the visit looks after itself:
- Nothing is begun until a scan has been carried out and live data read from the engine ECU, giving the load by percentage and weight, and testing the sensor readings, glow plugs and related parts.
- Then the cleaning solution goes in at the motor's entry point and spreads inside the filter, freeing the baked-on soot that a regeneration would never have budged on its own.
- At the kerb is the usual, with a monitored trip out of The Close on offer if you care to come along, and the regeneration clears the loosened ash either way.
- Finally comes a follow-up scan. It confirms the change, puts out the dash light out, and writes down anything that's still unresolved.
Nothing about the readings is taken on trust — the numbers from the start and the finish both land by email.
Where the work can happen around The Close
There is no unusual condition beyond space to sit for the length of the job.
Which usually amounts to one of these:
- At home across in The Close, on the front
- A company car park
- Any unused corner of a yard you can use
- A space just off Kingsgate Street
- The Sainsbury's customer car park while you get on with something else
You're free to clear off and leave it, and nothing comes off the car while you're gone.
Exactly what clogs diesel particulate filters near The Close?
Short cold stop-start trips are what a DPF handles worst, and a residential suburb like The Close throws up little else. The filter has to have heat and it has to have time, and gets neither. Nipping to All Saints Church of England Primary School, crawling on St Swithun Street before nine, running to Sainsbury's, running to Winchester — nothing there runs long enough or runs hot enough to finish a burn cycle.
Unless you have a routine cause to get out on the M3, under a mile from The Close, or run over to Winchester under a mile away, full weeks slip past without a journey of the sort that empties a filter out.
Fuel consumption is normally what people notice first. The stop/start goes without a word, power drops away, the revs will not climb the way they should, and there may be a diesel odour in the cabin or dark smoke on acceleration — often well before the light appears.
What will on-site DPF cleaning not fix?
One fault is fixed by a clean: the DPF choked with soot and ash. Plenty of other failures show that same light on the same dashboard, which is why there's a scan at the start and nothing is cleaned until that's finished.
These are past what a treatment can do:
- A pressure or temperature sensor reporting a block that is not there
- A failed EGR valve
- Trouble with the AdBlue system
- Worn glow plugs or injectors, so no regeneration ever completes
- A worn turbo putting oil through the DPF
Where the fault sits in any of those, we say so ahead of any cleaning getting going rather than after you have settled up for it.
Driving without a functioning DPF is illegal and the vehicle will not clear an MOT, so having the unit hollowed out solves nothing. Nor is anything exchanged: what people look up as DPF renewal is the original DPF, cleaned where it sits and put back to work.
The free thing to start with first
Worth a try before you ring: a filter that's only just started to fill up will often clear itself. Five more minutes to Headbourne Worthy and back won't manage it. You are after the M3, under a mile from The Close, held at an even speed — or the longer way around to Winchester.
That window closes the moment the light appears and the car slips into limp mode, at which point a call-out cleaning visit is the route.
What call-out DPF cleaning comes to in The Close
Where call-out DPF cleaning starts is from £299. A call-out charge applies to every visit, covering the call-out, the booking, the scan and the guidance that comes with it.
The motor, and what the filter turns out to need, both shift what a given job works out at — which is why no set price is posted. Let us know what you drive and roughly where you are — The Close itself, out by The Soke, or elsewhere in the SO postcode area — and you will have the price before anyone is sent out.
The work comes with a 30-day warranty including aftercare. If the DPF warning light returns within that term, a technician returns to The Close.
Whatever you operate, we clean its DPF round The Close
All of these are given the same on-site service:
- Cars
- Vans and light goods vehicles
- Your HGV lorries
- Site plant and building machinery
- Farm machinery and machinery
A workshop of ours is not where the work takes place. Your place across in The Close is, with the DPF cleaned in place on every one of them.
Our own workshop picks it up where an engine will not turn over: once you or your garage have got the filter off and a driver has delivered it in, it is treated within 24 hours. You will want a garage to lift the filter off and refit it, on either service.
Very professional, polite service. not cheap but worth every penny. I'm so happy with result strongly recommend. to use this service. after many disappointments with another companies. Thank you.
Excellent service from mobile DPF cleaner. Booked around lunchtime, then a same day service, albeit quite late in the evening by the time the mechanic arrived! However, he got the job done, and advised me of what else was needed to ensure that I didn't have any recurrence.
The engineer Andrea's was very efficient. Nothing was a problem. I don't think my van has driven so well since I have had it. Very pleased. Thank you.
The SO area and The Close: the ground we cover
Our engineers are down St Swithun Street most weeks, so The Close is seldom out of the way. The same trip takes in The Soke and Bar End, and the outlying villages out past Headbourne Worthy and Kings Worthy.
Call anyway if you are further out across Hampshire. Coverage runs nationwide; what governs whether it is today or tomorrow is the local schedule rather than the distance.
On-site DPF cleaning across The Close: common questions
How much time am I without the car?
Roughly two hours. A badly clogged DPF can require a second pass, which adds to that.
What does mobile DPF cleaning come to in The Close?
On top of a price starting from £299, the visit, the check and the advice are paid for by a call-out fee. You'll be given the figure by phone, because what you run and where you are both shift it.
Where do you in fact do the job?
Both, anywhere in The Close or the surrounding Hampshire area. The work happens on the car, in situ, and the filter is never removed.
Can you get to The Close today?
You will usually be given the same day or the next, depending on what is already in the diary. What is free across the SO area is something we can tell you the moment you ring 0303 330 1830.
Do I still get charged if you cannot treat it?
The call-out charge holds regardless, because the journey, the check and the advice have all happened. You are not asked to pay for cleaning that does not proceed.
Am I covered if the dash light comes on again?
You have a technician back out to The Close, underwritten by the 30-day warranty.
How long will the work hold up?
That hinges on how the motor is run afterwards. Let it a decent run now and then — out towards Winchester, or on the M3 — rather than short trips round The Soke.
Set up mobile DPF cleaning for The Close
A phone call to 0303 330 1830 and an account of the fault is all it requires. You'll know a quote, and a time that suits you, before anyone leaves for The Close. The same office answers enquiries@dpf-fixer.co.uk first thing, so nothing arriving out of hours is left waiting.
You are working with ISO 9001 certified, SafeContractor approved, SSIP Approved and ISO 14001 certified engineers, every one of them covered for public liability to the full.
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