Warranty Claims Undertaken
0% Finance Available on Repairs
Vehicle Recovery &
Diagnostics
12 Month Guarantee Across All Vehicles
Diesel Particulate Filter Repairs Specialist
Guaranteed protection on your manufacturer's warranty
- Diesel particulate fuel filters
- New or repaired DPFs
- DPF chemical clean
- Diagnostic analysis
- Full repairs with re-programming
Common Problems with Diesel Particulate Filters
- DPF clogged with soot
- Black smoke when accelerating
- DPF regeneration issues
- Dashboard warning light illuminated
- Faulty turbocharger
- Faulty fuel injector
- DPF additive levels low
- Failed emissions testing
DPF Repairs Undertaken
- New or repaired DPFs
- DPF chemical clean
- Diesel fuel filters replaced
- Diagnostic analysis
- Full repairs with re-programming
- All major manufacturers & models
- Warranty companies/claims undertaken
- Vehicle collection
- Manufacturers warranty protected
- 0% Finance Option
Diesel particulate filters (DPFs) are fitted to the exhaust of all new diesel cars. Designed to trap the harmful soot and ash particles created when diesel is burned, thereby preventing them from being injected into the atmosphere. However, these soot particles can also block the filter, effectively seizing up your engine and causing a repair bill running into thousands.
The dashboard warning light will illuminate when the filter is blocked. We advise drivers to take their diesel vehicles out on a 30-40 minute drive on a motorway at a sustained speed when this happens, allowing the exhaust temperature to increase and burn off the excess soot in the filter, which can then be expelled properly. This process is called “passive regeneration”.
The “active regeneration” process is usually a limit programmed into the vehicles ECU. Once the DPF reaches this level of soot, the exhaust temperature is automatically raised. However, most urban journeys are often shorter than the time needed to complete the active regeneration process, and if it's interrupted too often, issues can occur. The best way to maintain a DPF is to ensure that it’s able to regenerate itself properly. The majority of DPF problems occur when this process is interrupted! Faulty turbochargers and faulty injectors can also cause issues with a DPF.
Vehicle Recovery & Diagnostics
Subject to our terms & conditions.
Our professional staff will book your service or repair at one of our centres local to you, arranging for your vehicle to be collected from a location that suits you. If any additional or advised work is required, we’ll always call you first. We will not undertake work without your authorisation. There is a 12-month warranty on all parts and labour and your existing manufacturer’s warranty is protected.
Please click the button below to make an enquiry or call us on 0808 164 0418 to book a repair, local to you, with a specialist technician at Service4Service.
How Our Car Repairs Work
- Complete our repair enquiry form and await a call, or call us to speak to one of our specialist advisors on 0808 164 0418.
- We’ll try to estimate the issue with your vehicle, based on the information you provide, along with approximate repair costs. Before inspecting the vehicle, all we can do is estimate the faults and costs.
- We will arrange for your vehicle to be recovered into one of our specialist repair centres in order to give a full diagnosis of the problem and exact costs.
- Diagnostic reports are usually available on the next working day, we don’t want to leave people wondering.
- All work is carried out by our approved repair centres. If any additional or advised work is required, we’ll always call you first. We will not undertake work without your authorisation.
- We work with all the major warranty companies and will process the claim on your behalf to save you additional stress at difficult times.
- We will let you know if there are likely to be any delays to the estimated repair times.
- When repairs are complete and final payments are made or finance agreements are in place, we will attempt to return your vehicle by the end of the following working day.
- You will have an invoice detailing the work completed, including our warranty of 12 months or 12000 miles.
Spread the Cost with 0% Interest-Free Finance on Servicing & Repairs
At Service4Service we want to help ease the cost of your car service or any other unexpected vehicle repairs, by offering our customers the option to spread the cost of their repair bill over either four or ten months, interest-free with a choice of car repair payment plans.
4 months interest-free option
- Car repair or servicing costs totalling over £350.
- Spread the cost over 4 months interest-free.
- You pay 25% of the total upon application.
- The remaining 75% is spread over 3 equal monthly payments.
- A valid UK debit card is required to arrange the payment plan.
10 months interest-free option
- Car repair or servicing costs totalling over £1000.
- Spread the cost over 10 months interest-free.
- Deposit between 10% - 50%.
- Finance subject to acceptance.
- Credit and affordability checks carried out.