Speedmonkey.co.uk Website Review

why i hated my bmw 320d and wanted to sell it - and then fell in love with it again. outright and i didn't want to make any monthly payments. i liked it. so what if it had 200,000 miles on the clock. it ran well and it was but it had started getting slower. it had started to feel a bit clogged up. all was not well. but i put it out of my mind. i continued until a light came on the dashboard, between the speedo and the rev counter. and it was accompanied by a bong. or maybe a chime. whatever i could have googled it but i took a photo and put it on twitter.  the answers came back straight away. all the same. dpf. diesel particulate filter. uh? what the hell was a dpf? so i googled that. it was not good. to cut a long story short a dpf is a filter somewhere in the exhaust system that filters out all the diesel particulates (that as a motorcyclist i can feel in my eyes when this terrified me. what had i done by buying a diesel? maybe i should sell the car and buy a petrol. this was a sorry state of affairs. i went online. halfords promised to clear out your dpf for a mere £85. phew! i booked an appointment and a mechanic friend took it there to see if he could learn anything. sadly not, they said it would take 4 hours so he went for a very long and boring coffee. 4 hours later it was done. £85 poorer but the dpf light had gone out. job done, scare over. i did some more investigation. i consulted many forums where many ill-informed people gave many opinions on what to do, or not. sell it they said. it's knackered they said. don't buy a diesel they said. a new one would be £1500 they said. not helpful. i did my own investigations. i could buy a new one off ebay for £800. or alternatively there was a company in maidenhead who would clear it through for £250. this looked a good and sensible solution, but would it work? i asked my mechanic friend to call them and book an appointment. we agreed that he would remove the dpf - even though we had no idea where