Answer was simple, chap said it was a question that had been raised at various meetings but in truth very few owners acknowledge warning lights and read manuals so why bother.
After a few months it was not an issue for us, we could tell by the siund of the engine and and even the way it responded whan a regen was taking place. For almost 5 years we never missed one (but on occations we still had to stop during one - impossible to carry on driving sometimes).
I don't accept their reasoning, and i doubt you do either.
Its another example of lowest common denominator think, because someone clueless buys our vehicles we assume everyone who buys one of our vehicles is as clueless, i cannot stand this modern think.
It would cost pennies i suspect to make information and manual triggering available on the dash, by all means make the display hidden for the plant pot who finds checking the engine oil level too mentally taxing, but as is the case in so many things these days because Clueless can't, they assume no one can.
Lowest Common Denominator think is killing this country.
Nothing to do with this country is it. Cars are made pretty much the same for all markets with the exception of specific extras that are a must in some. But those extras are, to give examples easy to fit ones such as tinted rear windows and parking sensors. Changing the ECU programming especially for the "idiots" in the UK who cannot be bothered to read the manual is pointless. And lets be honest, the UK does not have the international maket in "lowest common denominator" does it, just take the the US president as an example.
Even supposedly clever people don't have a clue. Company I worked at many years ago had a company car policy that basically said that the cost of repairing any damage inflicted through lack of care or missuse would be deducted from the persons wages, seemed fair enough to me. But one director took the urine. He was a serial member of "running the tank dry club", no idea what a fuel gauge was for. Had a new company car and the fleet manager ordered it specially with built in sat nav and set it to show filling stations. Car was delivered to the office and on his way home he drove past 4 filling stations before he ran out despite the fuel light being on and the gauge saying zero.
Before it got to 10,000 miles he had run it dry of oil which did serious damage to the engine. Doubt they deducted a penny from his salary. When I left he had just got his first diesel which being 2011 would have had a DPF, wonder how he got on with that one.
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