Hi Both,
Thank you for your replies, I had no idea that this was a dodgy thing to do!
I would never want to take any risk where insurance and MOT are concerned, so I will definitly not be going down that route.
Since my last post I had managed to clear the DPF by taking the car for a run down the motoraway, But.......
Unfortunatly the car went into restricted mode when I let the diesel run down to 25 miles range, looking on the internet it said that fueI being low could have been the problem. I filled up and the problem went away for about a week.
It has now gone into restricted mode yet again and this time, as I know I wasn't low on fuel, I took it to a local garage and got it plugged in the code has come back which is the following: P006A manifold absolute pressure mass or volume air flow correlation.
I have changed the maf sensors (both of them) and also noticed the throttle body gaskets could do with being changed so I did them also.
Has anybody had this problem and if so was it a easy fix or is it somthing more sinister?
Thanks for your help in advance
Steve