Just wanted to report an out of the ordinary experience simply for the sake of curiosity.
*First off the car ran perfectly the entire time. I didn't experience any loss in performance, strange noise, dash lights...etc. Just a really long regen.
On my way home from work the other day my car started a regen and I did like I always do and drove past my house and headed for the highway to let it finish. I have a scanguage II so I've always been able to notice regens right away and keep driving until they are complete, even if it makes me late for work or class lol
Every regen I've experienced up until this point has been 8-10 mins long regardless of whether it is city driving or highway driving. This time it lasted 25+ minutes and ~19 miles of driving in mixed city/highway. The scangauge read 1100-1400F Pre-turbo EGT and 1100-1200F DPF for the entire regen which in my experience is perfectly normal.
After 20 minutes I was starting to get concerned just because it has never had regen last that long. I disconnected the scangauge and then re-connnected just to see if it was a glitch, but it was still reading regen temps. What was also interesting was that while idling for a few minutes the aux fan didn't come on like it would normally do during a regen while sitting in traffic. Also note that the aux fan did come on during the first 10 mins or so of this regen like normal.
At about the 30 min mark I decided to turn off the car for a few seconds and then restart it just to see if this "soft reset" would help. After that the temps went back to normal and I went home.
My initial thought is that there was possibly a glitch in the scangauge that was making it read high even when the regen was over. That might explain why the aux fan wasn't coming on 25 minutes into the "regen".
Just looking for thoughts from you guys and if anyone else has experienced a similar thing. It hasn't had another regen yet since that was only ~70 miles ago, but I'll be sure and report back if the next one does the same thing.
Thanks!
*First off the car ran perfectly the entire time. I didn't experience any loss in performance, strange noise, dash lights...etc. Just a really long regen.
On my way home from work the other day my car started a regen and I did like I always do and drove past my house and headed for the highway to let it finish. I have a scanguage II so I've always been able to notice regens right away and keep driving until they are complete, even if it makes me late for work or class lol
Every regen I've experienced up until this point has been 8-10 mins long regardless of whether it is city driving or highway driving. This time it lasted 25+ minutes and ~19 miles of driving in mixed city/highway. The scangauge read 1100-1400F Pre-turbo EGT and 1100-1200F DPF for the entire regen which in my experience is perfectly normal.
After 20 minutes I was starting to get concerned just because it has never had regen last that long. I disconnected the scangauge and then re-connnected just to see if it was a glitch, but it was still reading regen temps. What was also interesting was that while idling for a few minutes the aux fan didn't come on like it would normally do during a regen while sitting in traffic. Also note that the aux fan did come on during the first 10 mins or so of this regen like normal.
At about the 30 min mark I decided to turn off the car for a few seconds and then restart it just to see if this "soft reset" would help. After that the temps went back to normal and I went home.
My initial thought is that there was possibly a glitch in the scangauge that was making it read high even when the regen was over. That might explain why the aux fan wasn't coming on 25 minutes into the "regen".
Just looking for thoughts from you guys and if anyone else has experienced a similar thing. It hasn't had another regen yet since that was only ~70 miles ago, but I'll be sure and report back if the next one does the same thing.
Thanks!
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