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Vent: my DPF light came on at 187,432 miles and I swear the truck waited for that exact number
I run a 2014 Ram 2500 with the 6.7 Cummins and last Tuesday the dash lit up on my way home from a job in Bakersfield. Here is the part that gets me. The odometer read 187,432 and I had just hit that number pulling into my driveway, and I sat there in park watching the regen message pop up like the thing was waiting for the math to land on a clean set of digits. I have done every service on this truck myself, fuel filters every 15k, oil at 7,500 with Rotella T6, and I parked it on a slight slope for two weeks in August while I was laid up with a bad back. My guess is the truck did three short-trip regens in that stretch and never got hot enough to burn the soot out, so now I am staring at what could be a $2,800 DPF replacement if a forced regen at the shop cannot clear it. I pulled the codes with my cheap Autel and got P2002 and P2459, which points right at the filter being loaded up. I have a 45 minute drive set for Thursday to try a highway regen, but I am not sure it will do it. What is the real world success rate on a forced regen when you are this deep into a soot load, and does anyone run a cheap scan tool that will show the actual soot grams instead of just throwing the light?
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