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Does your Cummins regenerate once per tank?

Tims Ram said:
Sstoner911: my opinion on points of this thread is prevention and understanding the system, so as to not or never achieve a 100% full dpf and need a manual cleaning keepingthe system healthy as it were. In part I like the ideas of what I've read in your post, but have never heard any "chime" for anything and only know its in regen if the filter screen is displayed.
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Well, I am not sure aside from additives(maybe?) there is any real "prevention". These trucks emissions systems are designed to fail at some point. You can have a DPF canister professionally cleaned for around $500 if it comes to that.

The last part of my post were not "ideas", those were taken right out of the owners manual. I had a 2024 Chevy 3500 DRW and there was no DPF screen to look at the soot levels...Ram should do the same.
 
AH64ID said:
It’s pretty simple actually, the 19+ trucks (especially 22’s) have proven to be far pickier about driving style, filters, etc when it comes to regens. DPF’s are expensive and paying attention to how a truck regens will probing its life.

I’m very much a fan of drive and forget but unlike my 2018 that was not possible on my 2022. If everything worked as intended then we wouldn’t even have this thread, but it’s not working as intended.
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I don't see that the 2019+ trucks are pickier - I have owned a 2019,2021,2022,2023 and now 2024 and driven them all the same.

Perhaps a few trucks are not working as intended, but what is that 1%?
 
AH64ID said:
Based on what I’ve seen only soot based regens shouldn’t be interrupted. If the regen is 24 hour based then there isn’t a need to run until complete. 24 hour based regens also haven’t taken 20 miles to complete in my experience, on average they are shorter than that.
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My truck has never made it in the 15 months and 17,000 miles that I have owned it further than about 500 miles without going into regen because of soot loading. As far as I know it has never gone into regen due to engine hours. I stated earlier it can complete a regen on the freeway and within 30 miles of still freeway driving the filter will start to clog and go into another regen cycle in around 200 miles. Every time it takes about 20 minutes of driving to clean the filter. This is dumping a lot of fuel and from others experience it is not normal. The dealer has told me it is not normal for the truck to be doing this and wants the truck back to look into it further. This work is being done under warranty and so far only costing me time without the truck and the fuel they are burning while running multiple forced regen cycles.
 
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Resilient said:
My truck has never made it in the 15 months and 17,000 miles that I have owned it further than about 500 miles without going into regen because of soot loading. As far as I know it has never gone into regen due to engine hours.
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Have you tried Archoil 6500 & 6400D they sure helped my truck see 675-740 miles between 24 hr regens and right now its on sale with 20% off if you buy the combo pack and free shipping....
 
56ram2500 said:
Have you tried Archoil 6500 & 6400D they sure helped my truck see 675-740 miles between 24 hr regens and right now its on sale with 20% off if you buy the combo pack and free shipping....
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I just poured in the 6400D and filled the tank this morning. I then immediately took the truck on a drive on the freeway back and forth over a grade between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz. The DPF went from 0 to about 25% then dropped to about half that. These percentages are “guesstimates”. The bad part is when I filled up I think I left my Geno‘s Garage locking fuel/DEF cap key on my tonneau cover and drove off with it there. It is missing
 
Xflight29 said:
I dont get the whole worrisome of the DPF. I also have owned many Rams and have stoped / parked mid regen with out issue. I feel this has surpased the CP3 worries and post. I say just drive the truck and enjoy it.
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Xflight29: worrisome for me personally is the expense of having to replace it. I found out the other day in speaking with the diesel tech at the Ram dealer that I do business with that he replaced the dpf filter in the 2020 truck I recently purchased back in 2023.
 
Resilient said:
I just poured in the 6400D and filled the tank this morning. I then immediately took the truck on a drive on the freeway back and forth over a grade between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz. The DPF went from 0 to about 25% then dropped to about half that. These percentages are “guesstimates”. The bad part is when I filled up I think I left my Geno‘s Garage locking fuel/DEF cap key on my tonneau cover and drove off with it there. It is missing
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Once I started my 2 week vacation my dash DPF gauge dropped to zero an it still has not come back up, it has stayed at zero an did just 24 hr regens, my best & longest miles between 24 regens was 1467.7 miles, I missed the last 24 regen as I was in the Moab arches national park taking photos so I forgot to watch for it...
 
sstoner911 said:
I don't see that the 2019+ trucks are pickier - I have owned a 2019,2021,2022,2023 and now 2024 and driven them all the same.

Perhaps a few trucks are not working as intended, but what is that 1%?
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Far more than 1%.

How many miles did you put on those trucks?

Did you track any regen data?
 
sstoner911 said:
Well, I am not sure aside from additives(maybe?) there is any real "prevention". These trucks emissions systems are designed to fail at some point. You can have a DPF canister professionally cleaned for around $500 if it comes to that.

The last part of my post were not "ideas", those were taken right out of the owners manual. I had a 2024 Chevy 3500 DRW and there was no DPF screen to look at the soot levels...Ram should do the same.
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I said "ideas" in that I have never experienced any chime or any of the messages that you included, other than one message after I had the truck a couple of weeks saying the truck was in regen and to continue driving.(that regen took 30 minutes)
 
Resilient said:
I just poured in the 6400D and filled the tank this morning. I then immediately took the truck on a drive on the freeway back and forth over a grade between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz. The DPF went from 0 to about 25% then dropped to about half that. These percentages are “guesstimates”. The bad part is when I filled up I think I left my Geno‘s Garage locking fuel/DEF cap key on my tonneau cover and drove off with it there. It is missing
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I’m a fellow LG resident and I agree the 6400D helps. It changed from 400 miles to 800 between regens, albeit it does Regen more in winter. I don’t mind the DPF going up, but it’s when it’s gotten to 75% is when I get anxious. It’s a great truck and it always regens when it need to.
 
sstoner911 said:
I have had 5 or 6 Ram HD trucks since 2017. Not once did I ever worry about regens....or interrupting regens, passive or otherwise. There seems to be a lot of speculation on this forum as to the conditions and what triggers a regen. No where in the 0wners manual does it say to never interrupt a drive cycle during regen, it does say the emissions mode can last for 20 minutes of drive time but does not say that must be continuous. I think even the grocery getters can do 20 min straight of drive time daily.

I daily drive about 30 miles a day during the week and then on weekends as well. I tow our 5th wheel maybe 4-5 timers a year. These trucks will let you know if something is truly wrong - the engineers did not slack on warning messages and chimes on these trucks. They also engineered them to be driven as daily/weekend warriors or as the the Hotshot guy hauling everyday.

You can nerd out on regens and tracking the cycles but the Engineers did that already. Just drive the truck...sometimes I think people over think this stuff and create issues that are not there.
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If that were true, why did Stellantis issue a TSB (TSB 25-005-24) for this issue in the '22-'23 trucks?
 
Checkler said:
I’m a fellow LG resident and I agree the 6400D helps. It changed from 400 miles to 800 between regens, albeit it does Regen more in winter. I don’t mind the DPF going up, but it’s when it’s gotten to 75% is when I get anxious. It’s a great truck and it always regens when it need to.
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75% on the EVIC DPF gauge?
 
jebruns said:
If that were true, why did Stellantis issue a TSB (TSB 25-005-24) for this issue in the '22-'23 trucks?
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I work in the ship building industry and let me tell ya, those “engineers” have everything all figured out. But for some weird reason, when it comes down to the actual work, we have to modify stuff for it to actually work because it just didn’t work like they said it would.
Go figure.
 
maybe we should sticky dinky's drama with his 22's and then also put a readme to the regen thread for new people lol
 
Xflight29 said:
I also have a 19 and a 2020 and never had issue 1.
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different issues in those, most major DPF issues were in 2022. With hit and miss's in all the other years. 22 was a rough year for emissions. my 2018 was perfect. 2021 was 99% perfect. my 24 so far perfect.

some people go 2000 miles and the emissions crap out. some people go 200k just fine. consider yourself lucky. these threads are for those that are not.
 
Keep the conversation polite and adult or there will be floggings.
jebruns said:
If that were true, why did Stellantis issue a TSB (TSB 25-005-24) for this issue in the '22-'23 trucks?
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Well, like I said, some people have had issues buts a very very small number compared the amount of trucks on the road....probably 1%

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Tims Ram said:
I said "ideas" in that I have never experienced any chime or any of the messages that you included, other than one message after I had the truck a couple of weeks saying the truck was in regen and to continue driving.(that regen took 30 minutes)
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Did you just watch it for 30 minutes straight until the DPF gauge said zero?
 
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