I had my 2016 gxl in for its first service at 5000 kms as I was driving from northern WA to Melbourne and would be over the 10000 kms service. At about 7000kms the DPF clean failed. I called Alice Springs Toyota and was told it was fine to drive (over 500kms) but needed to go in to be serviced by them. Given that it was Saturday arvo I would had to wait till Monday. I decided to keep driving as I was planning on being in Melbourne by Monday anyway.
When I dropped it off to Toyota they told the DPF had failed due to stop/start driving and lots of short trips..
I told them that in the last 71 hours it had done 4021kms and due to living in a remote community in the Kimberley the car only gets used to do a 700km drive down to the closest town. So short stop/start trips cannot be the cause of the blockage..
They refused to acknowledge this and still say its due to the driving.
Has anyone else had this issue? I'm aabout to head back up north via Perth and don't particularly want keep having this fail again.
When I dropped it off to Toyota they told the DPF had failed due to stop/start driving and lots of short trips..
I told them that in the last 71 hours it had done 4021kms and due to living in a remote community in the Kimberley the car only gets used to do a 700km drive down to the closest town. So short stop/start trips cannot be the cause of the blockage..
They refused to acknowledge this and still say its due to the driving.
Has anyone else had this issue? I'm aabout to head back up north via Perth and don't particularly want keep having this fail again.
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