I hesitate to even mention this because I’ll surely jinx myself, but after I switched to using Marathon fuel, burning off the remainder of the BP fuel I’d been using, and omitting any additives, the DPF gauge on my truck hasn’t moved off of zero. This is even with 50/50 mixed city and highway driving. I’d say it’s acted this way for about the last 400 miles.
i find it hard to believe fuel could make such a huge difference in regeneration frequency but so far I’ve seen a marked improvement. The Marathon I go to is right next to a huge steel manufacturing/processing plant, so I’m pretty sure the fuel gets fairly regular turnover. Not only that, it’s crazy cheap — I’d say it’s easily 50-60 cents/gallon cheaper than any other gas stations in the region. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this behavior keeps up. Tomorrow I have to drive a 70-ish mile round trip, and I should hit another 24-hour timed regen along the way, so we’ll see what happens after that.
its just so weird since prior to my truck beginning to behave itself the gauge went from zero to 3/8 full in the space of about 30 miles which was very unusual. I figured either something finally broke hard or maybe I got a dodgy tank of gas. The jury is still out, but I know I won’t be returning to the BP I had been using. It definitely gets zero big-rig traffic, so who knows how long their fuel sits around.