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It is a C4 Picasso 1.6 115bhp after the injectors were replaced I checked on the Picasso forum and discovered that the injectors go at about 50 - 54 thousand miles. The DPFs are probably because of lower miles and town driving. Now I put premium fuel in every 2 or 3 fills.

We use supermarket fuel in all four of our vehicles, never any problems. Italian tune up for the diesel Jeep every so often if we are doing only shortish journeys.......😂

That’s the way to do it! 👍🏻

You could pay for premium fuel to gain a few extra miles in some types of vehicle but not all or you could use cheaper fuel which goes further per mile. 

As I posted in this thread about a thousand years ago, I have used supermarket fuel, both petrol and diesel over the best part of the last 30 years with no problems.

A fortnight ago I took my 4 year old Honda CRV, which I've owned from new and now has 50k on the clock, to my local Honda dealer for a service. Having a chat with the service manager I told him I normally drove the car with a light right foot, apart from when towing the van, but occasionally gave it a good "wellying" to hopefully blow out the 'crap' from the DPF. He told me not to worry, the only problems with the DPF were due to abuse. I asked him how it was possible to abuse a DPF. He said "Short trips to the shops, not allowing the car to warm up, and constant stop start commuter runs".

So, perhaps DPF and injector problems are due to how the car is used.

That’s what I’ve been saying!

I've had 2 cars with a DPF. The first, an Octavia did an 80 mile round trip every day, at speed, to work and back (for 5 Years ) Never had a problem, despite always filling it at Asda near my workplace.

Since retiring, a smaller VW Polo  potters around town for a few miles, rarely goes above 30mph. The DPF warning light often comes on, and is cured by a 30 mins of thrashing it at high revs in third gear to burn off the carbon in the DPF till the warning light goes out. Pain in the neck. It will have to be a petrol when we change it I think.

The van has never ever been a problem, but that never does slow short journeys either, and up till now ( 3 years ) has run entirely on supermarket fuel. If the new card actually arrives, and works, we will use Esso.

My thoughts as well Justice about petrol for local runaround.when we replace our 19 year old Yaris

If it's slow speed, stop-start that does for injectors, London taxis must be getting new ones every other week.

Hmmm.. good one CY.

But it is of course always doing slow speed short trips which are not long enough to get the engine and DPF on the exhaust up to temperature.. Taxis are running for hours and hours...