After a year of mainly local driving, much to my horror, i got the overhead message "80 % full, regeneration required now! didnt know what to expect exactly. Good timing had it, i had to drive 25 minutes to NYC the day of the message. On route to the highway on secoundary roads the overhead read " regeneration in progress" followed by "regeneration complete". That was it- no big deal! regen was done before i even hit the highway. Had visions of crazy fast driving through normally bumper to bumper highways & maybe a trip to the dealer.

 

sounds good, relieving having it turn out ok, warnings and such can put a sour pit in your gut. I had one I could not figure out, I was getting a chime under hard acceleration, turns out my brake pads were gettin low, drawing down brake fluid a bit, hard accel sloshed the fuid back and was tripping the low fluid sensor.... fast enough to not fully catch what was goin on, all I saw was a big red triangle. that one had me miffed for a few weeks.

 

Glad it worked out for you. I've had one desoot issue and the dealer had to clean my turbo but other than that ive never seen any kind of regeneration messages on my overhead

 

Ya, that's the way it should work. Normally the only time I would see the DPF messages was after a prolonged period of idling or very slow driving. But when I was playing around with boost foolers last year, the overhead would give me the 80% message for what seemed like no reason. It made no sense that after a 1,000 KM highway run with the trailer, the DPF would be full half way to work the next day. So I took the boost fooler off, cleared the codes and I have not seen the 80% message since.

 

Im glad it went well.

What would have happened if it wouldnt have went well? Does the truck shut down?