Low diesel additive warning light

I have an 807 with 2.2HDi engine and 60k on the clock and had same message about 2 months ago. There is one line in my handbook which just says "refer to dealer" when you see this message but my local (non-peugeot) mechanic found the additive tank under the car next to the fuel tank. Peugeot supply a kit of additive with a long length of plastic pipe (about ?30) and we managed eventually to connect pipe to tank and get the additive in. Now for the sting - the message didn?t go away. The garage has a Sykes-Pickavant computer which recognised the message and said it had cleared it, but it just came back soon after. I conceded defeat and took it to my local Peugeot Dealer who are pretty good (as dealers go), and they said that the particle filter needed regeneration to burn off the soot particles which is done by injecting diesel into the exhaust gas to make it run very hot. This normally happens regularly without the driver being aware but occasionally there is a problem and it has to be connected to the Peugeot Computer in the workshop to be done. They admitted that it?s a known problem - sometimes it?s a 10min job, but it can also take up to

4 hours at ?70 per hour - they quoted me ?320 inc vat just to get rid of the message. Their other suggestion was to carry on driving for a few weeks as it can disappear by itself which I?m now trying, but it?s still there at present. If you find another way of getting rid of it, please let me know :) Dav

"clive" wrote

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Try to burn it yourself, drive some minutes (8-10) with 3500 rpm or more, (about 100 km/h on 3rd gear) to let the particle filter burn off the soot particles. In garage they do it by connecting your car to the computer and there is a special program to do it. After refiling the additive there is sometimes nessecery to reset the counting in aditive computer. Your dealer has to know it (maybe this is 10 min job).

Greg

As has been said, the additive tank is situated on the LH side of the vehicle, just in front of the rear wheel. There are two types, depending on the date of manufacture. I believe the change over happened about Nov 2002. Prior to that the tank takes 5 litres of Eolys DPX42 fluid, and you can get this only at Peugeot and Citroen dealers. It comes in one litre bottles, and a 4.5 litre kit which includes the pipes etc. The latter costs ?92 incl. VAT. Don't be conned into buying the one litre bottles which my local Pug dealer tried to do saying that this was all which was available, as they cost ?30 plus VAT. Although there is a float switch in the little tank which puts the warning on, the fact that you fill the tank up will not remove the warning, this has to be reset on the computer. However, I have not bothered with this yet, just ignore the warning. The bad news is that the actual filter in the exhaust will also have to be cleaned at some time to remove the ash which accumulates from burning off the soot. I haven't got round to this bit yet. Peugeot usually want to fit a new one at some incredible cost, but it is possible to just clean them I believe. You can also get exchange units which have been cleaned somewhere in France by Peugeot/Citroen.

Forgot to say, Peugeot/Citroen part number for the early type fill up kit is

9979.95

This is up to Vin 9491

After that use Eolys 176, three litres total. The two types cannot be mixed.