Blocked DPF removed and cleaned DIY Nissan Qashqai

all right guys so i've got this issue

with my car it's uh

nissan cash car 2011 1.5 diesel

got a red engine management light on so

what i'm going to do is uh just try to

get a code for that see

why that is go ahead and plug that in

like so and then we just turn the

ignition on

just the ignition like solve

so let's see there you go

diesel particulate filter restriction

ash accumulation so we've had this issue

before around two years ago almost

exactly to this day we had the same

symptoms

and it turned out to be the dpf and we

had it cleaned

professionally for around 250 pounds and

um

it just happened again so the issue is

this car literally does

no motorway mileage so it's bound to get

clogged up because

it doesn't accumulate enough heat to

burn off all the ash so it just

comes out the back it just gets stuck in

there so

i'm not looking to spend another 250

pounds to get this cleaned i'm going to

try and do it myself this time bro

all right so i'm hoping that should be

enough clearance to get underneath the

car and

try and remove the dpf all right guys so

here i am underneath the car and i'm

going to try to show you

so here's the dpf starts from around

here

and it goes on

all the way down there so let's go and

have a look so we've got

two bolts here

i can see there's a little gasket in

between and then i don't think there's

anything else connecting it

until over here i've got this little bit

here this

just slides in we've got okay so that

will come off over here

this sensor and the other bolts

are right about here

so there and there

it's a 10 mil so i'm gonna go ahead and

try to remove that

and those are tight maybe i might need a

ball nope

got it that was pretty tight okay

a couple of turns the other one now

let's get stuck over here and there's

only

like an inch over here okay but that's

not too

tight at all that's already loose

turning one tooth at a time

literally okay i could probably it's

probably loose enough to get

a ratchet spider in there now i'll try

and do the rest of the ratchet

let's

so that's loose and the gasket's just

hanging off

so i'll leave that for now let's go to

the uh back end now

these are 16 mil

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try to take this plug off

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yes thank you very much i appreciate it

yeah yeah thank you very much i

appreciate it thank you

there you have it guys it's all off oh

god so i'm just gonna

try and have a look inside the dps see

how

it's looking inside from the inlet

let's look at the other side i'm not

from the exit

it doesn't really doesn't look that bad

from the exit looks pretty clean

so it's probably from the other end it's

clogged up

oh guys so i've decided i'm going to use

the cleaning solution in this

end and get it out the other end

rather than forcing all the dirt out of

the clean end

so what i've done is i've blocked this

bit off with just a plastic cup

that fits into that hole nicely and i've

tied it all together with some zip ties

hopefully when i pour in the cleaning

solution i want to leave it in here

for a while for a good few hours and

hopefully it doesn't leak out from this

end

so here's the final setup i've got it

all secured on the chair

it's almost upright and

i've taken the center out and uh shoved

a rubber glove in there

as per the official instructions on the

bottle

i've uh blocked off that little

pipe as well so we're ready to start

filling it with the solution all right

so this is what i'm planning to use it's

winds off car dpf cleaner removes ash

deposits from all types of

blocked dpfs professional formula so

it's mila let's see how it goes

so that's the top it's all formed up

it's kind of holding up there's some

leakage some

black soap coming out of there

so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna leave

it here let it soak for a good few hours

every uh once in a while i'll come and

give it a little shake

like i did earlier all right so it's

been a while i'm gonna try and give it a

little shake up

see what happens

hopefully that should dislodge some of

the uh

the ash and the soap so i'm just giving

you another shake up

and what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna

release the fluid now

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all right so what i'm going to do now is

just um

stick a hose pipe in there and just let

the water come out until it starts

coming out

clear so i've plugged the hose pipe at

the top over there

just gonna go ahead and release the

water

see what comes out now

we'll leave it like that and it's

already starting to clear up a little

bit as you can see

so i'm going to leave this running for

as long as it takes

until we've got crystal clear water

coming out there

moving

it all comes up so that that's looking

very clear

so we'll get our little mug

and look it's really not that clear

still got a lot of dirt coming out

some nasty nasty stuff oh guys so i'm

just going to shoot a bit of a

compressed air down there

i'll just leave it like that for a

little while

keeps them coming

now guys so this is what the uh inside

of the dirty end is looking the other

side is looking exactly the same

nothing to see much

uh

oh guys so it's all back on i'm gonna go

and start the car up let's see how it

goes

well guys so i've got the car on the

motorway doing about 60 miles an hour

3000 rpm

i've been driving like this for about 20

minutes on fourth gear

and uh the emr light has gone off

alhamdulillah

so there you have it guys i think we're

done lights not coming back on looking

all good

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