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    Fuel consumption after injectors replacement

    Hi and Happy new year to all
    Original injectors failed in early October and since new injectors were fitted I've noticed that fuel consumption has gone up and on board computer has become very inaccurate, according to computer it's gone down to around 7l per 100km but I can only do around 750km with full tank and with old injectors i used to get up to 900km. Another thing I've noticed is that DPF regeneration happens more frequently , almost daily, and it used to do it around 3 times a week. Today i did around 250km freeway driving and when i came off FW after about 10km it regenerated it again(pretty sure it shouldn't have after freeway driving). I spoke to the dealer and he assured me that they did what they do with every car,fit new injectors and no other setup is necessary and that DPF regeneration is automatic and that it depends on fuel quality and driving style(i changed both with no change).
    Has anyone come across this with their cars or does anyone have any suggestions or could it be that something was left unplugged , any help/advice appreciated.
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    What was the consumption prior?

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    Obviously a new vehicle with newer technology, but does daily DPF regeneration sound right? I haven't noticed mine light up once in 4500km, which includes a lot of 10km commutes to and from work.

    Does it help that I tend to drive in manual mode, run past 2k (or more) on each gear change, and don't "cruise" below 1400rpm?
    Former owner of MY12 GTD with DSG

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    Quote Originally Posted by ParaBul View Post
    Obviously a new vehicle with newer technology, but does daily DPF regeneration sound right? I haven't noticed mine light up once in 4500km
    The light on the dash doesn't come on unless there is a need for you to drive it harder for a bit to clear the soot, there will still be regenerations happening but you probably haven't noticed. I didn't realise this before and thought my car was playing up.

    When its doing the regens you might notice the gearbox will hold gears for longer and the engine will idle higher (mine goes from 800 to 1000).
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    Hi all,
    No the DPF light never comes on, as Jazd said, it hold gears for longer and revs jump from 800 to 1000. Fuel consumption with original injectors was between 7.5 to 8.2 l per 100 km and that's driving from Southwest Sydney to northern beaches daily, around 42 km each way and now it is 1l higher and fuel calculations are way off. Today I've filled up and on the MFD it was showing 6.9 and real consumption was 7.8 with about 400km of highway driving, before injector failure MFD calculation was almost spot on maybe 0.2 of a difference. To me it looks like it is running a bit rich which creates more soot and that's why it's regenerating more often than usually but as the dealer said all it needed was injector replacement no other adjustment was necessary i don't really now what to do .
    Does anyone knows what sort of work is done when they replace injectors or does it need any other adjustments as i just don't trust this dealer(every time they did some work on it the car had to go back, last time they stuffed rocker cover and there was a major oil leak)
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    The DPF regens by themselves will cause higher fuel consumption but it sounds like you have bigger issues.

    I just remembered from when I made the VCDS label file for your engine there is an adaptation for the injectors.

    A082,0,Injector (Cylinder 1)
    A082,1,Engine Speed,(G2
    A082,5,Injector (Cylinder 1)
    A082,6,After the change of an injector this must be adapted to the engine control unit.
    A082,7,To avoid driving defects this should only happen when replacing an injector!
    A082,8,
    A082,9,To adjust the new injector store the value "0"
    A082,10,and then turn off the ignition for at least 30 seconds.

    There is one of these for each cylinder. Its possible your dealership hasn't done the adaption after replacing the injectors.

    Someone with VCDS and the label file could do this for you.
    Golf GT Sport TDI

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