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    Oleh
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    XF
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    2008
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  1. I see there have already been some media reports on the matter back in 2011: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056574/Motorist-told-45-000-Jaguar-keeps-breaking-driving-FAST-enough.html
  2. It's not like I didn't have my oil regularly checked.
  3. I mean there's no special focus on the DPF filter with regards to the problems that might arise from its failure to regenerate. Were I ought to have the car checked several times within the three months that passed since the last service? Is so, would these checks have to be weekly or daily?
  4. When I bought my Jaguar, I knew nothing of DPF and the salesman never mentioned it to me. I don't see this issue stressed in the manual either. I am not much into cars but a very careful driver with no penalty points. To me, a car is what it is to most people - means of transportation. I will now get the engine replaced and sell this vehicle ASAP, then forget about Jaguar, diesels, and DPFs once and forever. I will be sure to tell all of my contacts about my experience, so they would be making informed choices for themselves.
  5. I wasn't getting the "Service required" warning, only the "DPF full" one.
  6. Just heard back from the garage I will need a new engine. Never again a DPF-equipped diesel for me.
  7. Three months ago, when I had my oil changed, I also had the injectors replaced which broke down because of the said DPF clogging problem. So this happened to me with both new oil and new injectors.
  8. Was it not possible for Jaguar to design the engine in a way which would prevent this from happening?
  9. That's the most upsetting part about it - just had it done three months ago.
  10. A lot depends on your car's mileage. If it's still relatively low, your DPF will manage to regenerate every time like mine did until now but will find it increasingly harder every next time until an eventual failure to do so might lead to a situation like mine. It's really impossible to say for sure when that point of no return will come.
  11. I had a serious road incident today which I would like to warn all of my contacts about - especially, if they are using or contemplate getting a DIESEL vehicle. Back in 2005, lawmaker lunatics in the EU passed the so-called Euro 4 legislation which limited exhaust particles below any reasonably achievable threshold. This forced carmakers to supplement their cars with DPFs (diesel particle filters). When a car is mostly driven within a city (and not so much on motorways), this filter quickly gets full. Cleaning it (they use the word "regenerating") then usually requires a prolonged motorway drive. So when my DPF got full yet again today, I took my car to a motorway for that prolonged drive. It used to take me an hour on average in the past for it to clean and the warning message to go off. This time, however, it just never happened. Along the way, I stopped at the traffic lights. When the light went green and I gently hit the accelerator pedal, my car suddenly took off at about 100 mph in a huge cloud of thick smoke coming from its exhaust pipes. I was no doubt lucky I was first at the traffic lights with no cars ahead of me. Yet mechanics say I was even more lucky to somehow eventually pull over and stall the engine. Diesel fuel that was being pumped for the DPF cleaning got into the engine oil sump, so the engine quickly reached a huge reading of RPM (revolutions per minute), making the car take off like at a racing track. Usually, drivers panic extremely in such instances of a runaway diesel, abandon control of the vehicle, or try to shut off the engine before pulling over to a safe zone, forgetting this would also immediately lock the steering wheel. I had no prior experience or knowledge of such situations yet managed to do everything just as one should while staying calm all the way. Luck, a higher force - you name it - helped me stay alive and keep other drivers around me unharmed in an uncontrolled smoke-covered car which suddenly took off at over 100 mph. I later learned my vehicle (Jaguar XF 2.7D) was banned from imports to the United States due to one of their engineers having voiced a risk of this very possibility, however remote it might have seemed at the time. So don't blame Americans for stuff like pulling from the Paris Accords - they are a nation of carmakers, among other things, and know that some measures like the Euro 4 standard might not cost just money but also lives - many lives. So they came up with solutions like Tesla but not with potentially deadly filters like DPF.
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