Last couple of regens have been 13 and 8 miles apart. Hopefully injectors will sort it but I'd not bet my beer money on it If not it'll soon spend more time in regen cycle that not.
I don't think it so myself. 
Used to do a couple of hundred miles. Dealer says every 70miles is average
Rust on tailgate, poor fuel consumption from software update and filter housing change and borderline dangerous throttle lag when pulling away (auto box) and now this crap.
I know its an old thread, but did the replacement of the injectors solved the issue?
Whilst waiting for them to fit it Chris gave me the keys to a 1.9 d-max that had been 'chipped'. Certainly improved engine pickup/pull low down the rev range against what I remembered of the ones I originally demo'd. This is being supplied as an optional extra upping the torque and the bhp to 190bhp (I'm told). Should have lifted the bonnet to see what used but at a guess it may be a Steinbauer. Once insurance gives the go ahead my d-max is going back in for a new wing and a small delve in the door to be fixed. If it's still about I'll have a peek under the bonnet.How are you getting on now Ricky?They said so (at York Vans) but I part ex'd it for another 2.5 D-Max so never got to drive it again. They'd sold it before I picked the new one up. Rightly or wrongly I bought the same again as I wasn't too keen on the 1.9 D-Max. Whilst they had the engine out of my d-max they lent me both a manual 1.9 and an auto 1.9. Against the old 2.5 found it quite noisy when worked, but the worse was compared to the old model was quite flat under 2000rpm, seeming to lack torque low down the rev range. The auto hid this quite well by keeping the revs up but very noticeable on the manual. In honesty if they'd not found me one of the last old models I'd have probably bought a Ford Ranger. Maybe should have but time will tell. Happy with it to be fair and no issues with DPF. Although you can tell when it is regenerating the DPF it runs nothing like as rough as the first version. I put this down to the original being one of the first off the production line and as time went on they managed to tweak the things. Really can't back it up with figures I'm afraid but the late model 2.5 feels like it pulls a lot better than the original.
I was down at York Vans the other week picking up a new door mirror after smashing it clean off on a post in a neighbours yard
Funny you should ask. Has been doing a regen every 90 miles or so but with lockdown and not travelling far, it’s been doing a lot of short journeys in the 7 to 20 mile range. Last week suddenly started to regen a lot more frequently at around 10 to 20 miles or less. I took notice of the DPF display on dash and it was going from 2 bars straight to 5 and a regen? Poured a can JLM Filter clean in tank yesterday as was doing a 70 mile run - giving it a hammering as the opertunity arose. Not convinced the the Filter Clean will do much good but did go further between regens. I do as yourself, allow it to finish a regen but isn’t always possible.
As to takeing it to dealers then if you’ve time to waste then up to you. They’ll plug in and say it shows nothing wrong. They’ll then do a forced regen which doesn’t do much. They’ll update software and say it’ll take time to do anything - yer, as long as it takes f’in hell to freeze over! Had it all with previous d-max and had local tame mechanic take DPF off and give it a swill out. They did and found it relatively clean and certainly no where near blocking. Didn’t do any good. Eventually dealer said injectors were overfueling and changed them. Took over a month to do by which time i sold it and bought current d-max so never really knew if injectors were the problem. Top and bottom the Isuzu DPF solution is a pillock of a system. Probably ok if you’re spanking it up and down the country but short runs not so much. Plenty on Facebook keen to delete the damned thing altogether.
Dealer rang me to come try the new d-max couple of months back. Whist I was there waiting outside because of covid restrictions another farmer (as it turned out) came up chatting. He had a fairly new 1.9 facelift model and said he was sick of coming to dealers to have ‘some’ oil dropped out as having issues with diesel getting into sump. Anyway off he went and salesman comes out. I said to dealer that with the advent of the 1.9 the diesel in the sump was history? Turns out they were doing a lot of runs of 2 miles between farms and wasn’t getting chance to warm up hence problems with regenerating and diesel finding it’s way into the sump.
As to mine then if starts being a pillock it’ll find itself down at webuyanyvan.com and I’ll get who knows what? End of day I still need to do a lot of shorter runs. I still need a pickup. Is any other make of diesel going to fair any better with DPF and short runs? Electric or an hybrid could be an answer but not going to spend silly money on a pickup. Matter of fact low mileage s/h more likely an option. Ford or VW??
Out of interest why isn’t there the option of a petrol engined pickup? I guess I’ll regret asking
My Ranger 3.2 auto has been faultless since it arrived 2-1/2 years ago, including a thrash to Shropshire last weekend for myself and drillman junior to visit a certain seller of puppies. Speedo was reading 3 figures at one point on the M6 toll with plenty to spare.
