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Thats a really good thing, my only concern is wether this will pass MOT or not. Is there anyone else in here did same and had his MOT done before ??? what was the outcome..

On January 29, 2015 My IS220d , returning from work to home in Liverpool, did the same thing and I had a same fault but I didn’t went into Limp mode, as I never drove Diesel before so at that time I even don’t know about Limp mode…I went home and Call Lexus Liverpool as I already have an appointment for safety check due on next Tuesday 3rd of February. I took my car to Lexus Liverpool in the morning; they said they will charge £60 to run the diagnostics to know the problem. The verdict I have been informed is that code P2002 DPF Particulate filter low , the carbon build up has and it blocked CAT Convertor, it require replacing the CAT and when they do that they will clean my EGR valve as well. It is a '07 plate, I bought the car June 2014 when it was 7 years old and had 72k odd on the clock, and has about 78300 at the time of the fault. Reason for this blockage was due to less motorway driving or cheap diesel, this is what their verdict. Anyway the quote is about £1800 to replace the CAT and clean EGR. It was a Shock to me as I bought this for 5K last June. I told them to give me the breakdown of the quote and I have told that CAT itself will cost 1200£ and then seals and 4 hours labor at the cost of £90/hour. I told them I want to take car outside to some garage for the second opinion, up till that point I was not sure that my car in in limp mode or not. I took the car and go to my work place and showed the quote to my colleagues and they ask me that is your car in Limp mode and I told them I had this VSC Check and traction light on, then one of them explain my about LIMP mode and I realize that my one is not in the LIMP mode, coz I drove it on 40miles. So everyone who have diesel said to me that this is very common for diesel as Soot won’t burn during city drive and every now and then you have to REV your car, and ask me to take the car to motorway and in second gear or third gear rev it on as much as you can. I did exactly what they told me, took the car to Manchester and mostly in third and fourth gear around 70MPH. It was a night time so I couldn’t see any black smoke when I was reving it. The light was still on even after that, but it was running perfectly to for next 2 days I went to work and on Weekend I went to Stoke on Trent, When I start my car to start my journey back to Liverpool, I noticed that Light is gone and I was oh my God that Rev Thing works J… Yes one thing was I use Shell V nitro… Then Next Monday I got call from Lexus customer service team about my experience for my last visit, and I told them each and every single bit what happened and what they did and what I did. They ask me that if Liverpool lexus call you and discuss with you on this, I said yes they can. Then there Service manager called me that day and they said what I did was regeneration on the car which burn the soot and that’s why your car VSC light is off but your CAT is still blocked and this need to be replaced. I ask him how he know that it’s a CAT as I have seen on you tube for CAT it P402 as well, and he said your car have P2002 DPF low and its his experience. I just said I am a doctor, If a patient came to me and said to me that I have a pain in my chest then it means that I should recommend him heart surgery. Is this dealers means and in the end he said your car won’t go more than 2 week or maximum a month and it will be broke due to this problem. Since them I am driving my Car with BP Ultimate diesel only which was almost 10 to 12p expensive than normal Diesel. One thing I noticed was my mileage of car went down to 369 from 435miles gradually and Average MPG went down to 30.4 MPG from 34MPG and tank average was 26MPG from 36MPG. I have been on internet and start looking what other people did, and read about DPF cleaner ,bought it from Halfords, 2 bottles cost 30£ but couldn’t found any difference in economy. Then last month I have seen this video on YouTube about this CATACLEAN. I order 2 bottles on Amazon. Cost me 29£. Unfortunately I put it in my tank when it was full, but one thing I noticed was that my tank average gone up to 29MPG from 27 MPG. This gave me confidence and I order 4 more, and this time I add 2 bottles initially when my car was showing 145miles to go on the remaining miles clock and drove my car on motorway. Then when I fill my tank this time tank average was 32MPG from 29 MPG and my overall average went to 30.5MPG from 30.4MPG and then I used my remaining 2 bottles and drove it but before that I drove my car on motorway due to the kids holidays. Today I fill my tank in and drove on M6 and my Tank average was 49 MPG, and my total average went up to 32mpg from 30.5mpg. On my last tank I drove my car total 432miles and it still saying 57 miles you can further drive, Today when I calculate I put 51.35 liters and drove 432 miles which gave me average 8.3 miles/liter and 38 per UK gallon. I thought before go for such high bills we should try out whatever we can. This might help someone but total cost on 6 or 8 bottle of different additives cost me Max 120£ but so far my car is OK. It’s now 80556miles on the clock and I had this problem on 78K miles. My 80K major service is due and one thing is sure that I will never ever take my car to Liverpool Lexus. They really shake my trust on them.

On January 29, 2015 My IS220d , returning from work to home in Liverpool, did the same thing and I had a same fault but I didn’t went into Limp mode, as I never drove Diesel before so at that time I even don’t know about Limp mode…I went home and Call Lexus Liverpool as I already have an appointment for safety check due on next Tuesday 3rd of February. I took my car to Lexus Liverpool in the morning they said they will charge £60 to run the diagnostics to know the problem. The verdict I have been informed is that code P2002 DPF Particulate filter low,the carbon build up has and it blocked CAT Convertor, it require replacing the CAT and when they do that they will clean my EGR valve as well. It is a '07 plate, I bought the car June 2014 when it was 7 years old and had 72k odd on the clock, and has about 78300 at the time of the fault. Reason for this blockage was due to less motorway driving or cheap diesel, this is what their verdict.Anyway the quote is about £1800 to replace the CAT and clean EGR. It was a Shock to me as I bought this for 5K last June. I told them to give me the breakdown of the quote and I have told that CAT itself will cost 1200£ and then seals and 4hours labor at the cost of £90/hour. I told them I want to take car outside to some garage for the second opinion, up till that point I was not sure that my car in in limp mode or not. I took the car and go to my work place and showed the quote to my colleagues and they ask me that is your car in Limp mode and I told them I had this VSC Check and traction light on, then one of them explain my about LIMP mode and I realize that my one is not in the LIMP mode, coz I drove it on 40miles. So everyone who have diesel said to me that this is very common for diesel as Soot won’t burn during city drive and every now and then you have to REV your car, and ask me to take the car to motorway and in second gear or third gear rev it on as much as you can.I did exactly what they told me, took the car to Manchester and mostly in third and fourth gear around 70MPH. The light was still on even after that, but it was running perfectly to for next 2 days I went to work and on Weekend I went to Stoke on Trent, when I start my car to start my journey back to Liverpool, I noticed that Light is gone and I was oh my God that Rev Thing works. Yes one thing was I use Shell V nitro…Then Next Monday I got call from Lexus customer service team about my experience for my last visit, and I told them each and every single bit what happened and what they did and what I did. They ask me that if Liverpool lexus call you and discuss with you on this, I said yes they can. Then there Service manager called me that day and they said what I did was regeneration on the car which burn the soot and that’s why your car VSC light is off but your CAT is still blocked and this need to be replaced. I ask him how he know that it’s a CAT as I have seen on you tube for CAT it P402 as well, and he said your car have P2002 DPF low and its his experience. I just said I am a doctor, If a patient came to me and said to me that I have a pain in my chest then it means that I should recommend him heart surgery. Is this dealers means and in the end he said your car won’t go more than 2 week or maximum a month and it will be broke due to this problem. Since them I am driving my Car with BP Ultimate diesel only which was almost 10 to 12p expensive than normal Diesel. One thing I noticed was my mileage of car went down to 369 from 435miles gradually and Average MPG went down to 30.4 MPG from 34MPG and tank average was 26MPG from 36MPG. I have been on internet and start looking what other people did, and read about DPF cleaner ,bought it from Halfords, 2 bottles cost 30£ but couldn’t found any difference in economy. Then last month I have seen this video on YouTube about this CATACLEAN. I order 2 bottles on Amazon. Cost me 29£. Unfortunately I put it in my tank when it was full, but one thing I noticed was that my tank average gone up to 29MPG from 27 MPG. This gave me confidence and I order 4 more, and this time I add 2 bottles initially when my car was showing 145miles to go on the remaining miles clock and drove my car on motorway. Then when I fill my tank this time tank average was 32MPG from 29 MPG and my overall average went to 30.5MPG from 30.4MPG and then I used my remaining 2 bottles and drove it but before that I drove my car on motorway due to the kids holidays. Today I fill my tank in and drove on M6 and my Tank average was 49 MPG, and my total average went up to 32mpg from 30.5mpg. On my last tank I drove my car total 432miles and it still saying 57 miles you can further drive, Today when I calculate I put 51.35 liters and drove 432 miles which gave me average 8.3 miles/liter and 38 per UK gallon. I thought before go for such high bills we should try out whatever we can. This might help someone. Total cost on 6 or 8 bottle of different additives cost me Max 120£ but so far my car is OK. It’s now 80556miles on the clock and I had this problem on 78K miles. My 80K major service is due and one thing is sure that I will never ever take my car to Liverpool Lexus. They really shake my trust on them. Thanks