Well due to an incompetent dealer service center I am now in the process of doing a DPF delete and EGR block on the new to us 2014 Jetta TDI. Had an exhaust temp sensor go bad and dealer drug their feet on lining up the repair and not returning my wifes calls for a couple weeks, she had it in to program a new key fob and the day before the check engine lite came on and they checked and said bad egt sensor and reset lite and sent her on her way and said let them know if it comes back on, well came on same day so she calls sets up another apt to supposedly repair but she shows up a week later and they do not even look at car say they have to order part, another week and still no word So I stop in inperson and ask what the issue is and they said they have never done one yet and had to order special tooling a couple times to get all the right stuff then still had not ordered sensor so they order sensor, there were a couple different ones so they order both to make sure they have right one. They come in and finally make another apt to have the sensor changed.

 

Note this car does not have warranty as it was deemed a total loss by the previous insurance company so it is on me for the repair.

 

Back to story, they start pulling car apart to change sensor and then bam wrong sensor need to order another to get the right one so a couple more days go by all the time my wife has put on roughly 2K miles since this has started with lites in dash on, I had no idea nor did the dealer tell us that having one of the several egt sensors go bad would prevent the regen system from functioning, come sensor change yesterday, get it done now they claim the DPF is sooted up past the cars ability to regen, it actually will not run a forced regen with their equipment.  

Tell me we need to replace the DPF, I said screw that going to delete it. They felt bad  and want to give me a break on the dpf replacement repair,  their lack of knowledge and wasting time is what caused it in the first place, they just took on the VW line last year and are incompetent from what I see in working on them, it is a crappy job and they were not afraid to show that each time my wife showed up too which is why I didn't do the repair, I looked it up on some other forums and saw what it took just to get to the sensor, so I let the dealer do it.

 

Had been researching the different options anyhow but wasn't planning on it until around 100K+ miles so will be ordering a dpf delete system and egr block this morning and then need to send the ecm in for tuning. All supposed to result in 5 mpg gains and a bit more power too. All for less than a replacement dpf alone. So I figure with 5 mpg gains it will pay back over time without the hassle of the emissions going forward eliminating several other potential issues going forward.

 

End of rant.

But they are built by big beer guzzling Germans.

Wife finally ran one tank through and hand calculated the mileage, @ a bit over 8k miles on the car now and recent deletes with eco stage 2 Malone tuning it went from a before average of 38-39 to this first tank of daily driving of 44.6 mpg. Not too shabby of a gain, hoping to see more as it breaks in a bit more and some more road miles.

 

Pics of this last weekends wash day. Even got the Nissan Convertible washed and ready for tomorrows trip to Iowa.

Next!

 

My vehicles need a bath too! 

Wife is taking it on the first long road trip the next couple days headed to southern Minnesota for a family gathering. Will get some road trip mileage if she can keep it under 90 mph.

 

It has done from 42 to 45 mpg over the last 3 tanks since the delete just normal daily driving it. Up from best of 39 before deletes.

Make sure to remind her that MN speeding tickets are much more expensive than ND tickets.

Just comparing to the last ND ticket I got. It's been a few years since that one though.

That's her issue, after being married for 18 years doesn't pay to try to explain it to her anymore  , she has her acct I have mine.

Ha Ha, wife got a speeding ticket on the way to Minn...............no surprise there. was doing 85 in a 75 but officer reduced it to 80 so no points off license, lucky she was still in ND just before Fargo otherwise the sting would have been a lot worse especially since their limit is 70 and not 75 like ND, got spoiled a few weeks earlier in SD on way to Iowa where interstate speed limit is now 80 mph.

 

She did 49.4 mpg on the way to Mankato Minn last weekend from Bismarck ND. Pretty darn sweet mileage,  Cost of Deletes and ecu tuneing are paying back fast now since in stock form never hit 40 mpg.

 

Still waiting to see what she did on the return trip at normal speeds lol.

 

She lost her receipt with the amount of fuel for the return trip but she is confident it did even better than the 49.4 it did on the way down from what she remembers putting in when she got home and she drove nicer and wasn't fighting a wind like the trip down. We will never know.

That's awesome, I'm just now catching up in the game. Debating which year to purchase. Sounds like 02-03 with a manual was the king for longevity and simplicity, but they are hard to find with lower miles if you can find them at all. I'm finding a lot of them in 2010-15 range for under 10k with average 50k +- still need to do more research, if pros and cons four different years. 

How many miles you got on the thing by now, how's it been doing?

Been on the hunt for a 13-14 tdi, probably a sportswagon with a full roof and of course a 6 speed manual. Man they don't give them away like anything else that makes sense. I've been looking for something with smaller diesel that sounds good and great on mpg, I think this will be it. 

Thanks for the thread, it got me in the right direction. 

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So I got a 2013 tdi jetta sportwagen, although door says 9/12 hope it's OK year. I've been reading a ton on these, it's a new world for me. Crap is adding up quick, this thing is almost more anal than my truck. Finding out now that these have something like cp4 high pressure pump and they are a gamble. Conversion kit to cp3 is a small fortune but probably worth it. Though I'd get a 2micron kit with his glass media filter, but can't find any now, seems to be discontinued and no one knows any better. At this point thinking I should of kept buying oil for my Honda lol, now got a loan and a headache. 

Where did you go @Wild and Free I have some questions for you 

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