2013 Octavia 2L DPF concerns or am I being silly?

[TAFC]

Going to view a 2013 Octavia 2L tomorrow. It’s only done 3k miles in the last four years. The dealer says he’s been using it as his daily, only doing roughly 4 miles a day. Should I avoid it as I’m thinking of what that’s done to the DPF among other things? Am I being silly?

[Richard-390a0]

An Italian tune up on road test will soon sort it out (fix it or f**k it!!!!!)

[Belle427]

Depends what mileage you intend doing with it, they need decent runs to get them up to temp regularly.
I would not worry too much about the previous owner but make sure you take it for a decent test drive not just a mile or two.

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Belle427 said:

Depends what mileage you intend doing with it, they need decent runs to get them up to temp regularly.
I would not worry too much about the previous owner but make sure you take it for a decent test drive not just a mile or two.

I’ll be doing roughly 30 miles a day, but I’ll take it on long runs roughly once a fortnight.

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Richard-390a0 said:

An Italian tune up on road test will soon sort it out (fix it or f**k it!!!!!)

I’m not sure the dealer will be happy me giving it an Italian tune-up lol. Are there any signs I could look out for when test-driving?

[Dg504]

An old diesel doing <800 miles a year? No thanks!

Any car really on that little mileage is going to suffer more than doing 80k a year in my experience.

[OutInTheShed]

Price up a DPF replacement.

It's not scary for some vehicles, but I don't think the Octavia is in that camp?

Time has moved on. DPFs and DMFs and EGRs and all those other TLAs are often cheaper to fix than they used to be.
It's a lot of labour on some cars though?

[Matt_T]

How about just buy a petrol one and avoid the DPF issue? If you're doing less than 10k miles per year I doubt the extra fuel costs will be a issue?