DPF regen behaviour - is this behaviour normal?

scythedem

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Australia NSW
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1.6 TDI CAYB Audi A1
hi, my 1.6TDI polo (70,000km, 2012) does what i assume is the ‘regen’ of the DPF where randomly the car sits at 1K RPM instead of 800RPM.

The car then changes the way it drives with it feeling more ‘powerful’ (as an adjective) and i’ve noticed with the ‘regen’ the car gets to temperature quicker and feels significantly quicker off the mark.

My question is, is this normal? Normal being the suspect behaviour after the VW emissions gate?

and my further question on this is, can i make this permanently happen (make the car regen all the time using a tool like VDCS?)

The car feels so much quicker and less sluggish when this is happening. Fuel consumption is better because the engine gets hotter quicker and i can actually accelerate in 5th gear (1.8k RPM) without the car being an absolute slug.
 
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