Dublinlexus

@whyeye. Let us know how it goes on Monday... Best of luck

Got the car back this evening.. Goes like a rocket and seems more "refined" than before. I'm getting 45 mpg at a constant 80mph. @cjetsy - you were right about the fuel filter. Mechanic changed mine after I mentioned it and it was the original one, was never changed before. It's a bitch of a job due to the location beside rear axle, hence it was never changed previously (took him 2 hours). All in all I got the egr and attached manifold totally cleaned out, dpf chemically cleaned and regenerated, oil and oil filter changed and the fuel filter changed. I can honestly say that the car has never run smoother but I will post an update if anything changes...I have a 150 mile trip tomorrow so plan to drive fairly fast to see how it goes. Another thing, the turbo lag that is common on these appears to have disappeared and I can pull out of junctions etc.. now without having to slip the clutch and rev the arse off it

Thanks for that. I will get the garage to change that as they are changing the oil and filter anyway. I get my car back tomorrow evening. Mechanic said that regeneration of the dpf was hard as they are meant to get it up to 300 degrees but could only get it to 250 so they chemically cleaned it out again and were able to regenerate it. I will go for a long hard spin tomorrow eve and put the update here. Mechanic also said that running the car while almost empty on diesel is very bad and to make sure the oil level is exactly correct. He worked for Toyota for 30 years but now retired and has a full workshop at home. While he is very good, he wouldn't be the quickest and the dpf had to be removed and sent off. More tomorrow... Fingers crossed but if I get any more issues, I am blanking off the egr and getting the dpf removed as I have a 150 mile daily trip and don't need these issues

Don't... Problems start at that sort of mileage and parts prices are on par with a Porsche. Just check out the price of one shock absorber. I do huge motorway mileage daily and still have egr. And dpf. Problems.... Car is currently in the garage since last saturday

Mechanic called me today. Egr. And manifold clogged up... Cleared out but computer codes say that my dpf is clogged. He is going to try and clean it out tomorrow chemically and said that he can cut a bit out of it. If that fails he suggested getting rid of dpf. And getting an emulator at a cost of 500. A new dpf is too expensive

I would love to hear something too. Exact same problem but today the check enging and traction control light came on but no"check vsc" the car then went into limp mode and my mechanic will check it Monday. I rang him today and he said it's more than likely a blocked egr again. He cleaned it out before last June. I drive 150 miles a day so I thought I would be getting the car hot enough to burn off any carbon build up. I also usually drive around 90 miles and hour on the motorway but I do have a fair bit of stop start driving in heavy traffic. I also have 8 penalty points, so I do drive kinda hard. I am really ****** off now as this was my first diesel and first Lexus... Looking it will be the last too. My sister in law has a 1.5 diesel Renault fluence and my brother has a Volvo s80 2.0 diesel. Both of these folks drive around 4 miles a day in heavy traffic, no motorway use and rarely out of 2 or 3rd gear and they have never had and problems with the EGR or dpf, in fact no problems at all. Does anyone know a way to override/reset the limp home mode and warning lights? Any response greats welcomed. My car is a 2009 is220d with 107 thousand miles. I bought it last year when it had 59 thousand