Still waiting for my A/C compressor to arrive, in the mean time I was thinking about an Oil change etc. I notice on the containers that apart from 5W40
there are also some added "Notes" like dpf etc. I was looking at the Castrol Magnatec and EDGE range. I read somewhere that not all 2.7Ds had DPFs fitted.
So how do you tell if you have a DPF fitted, is there a VIN after which all diesels had DPFs fitted? So which to choose?

 

You'd be better asking on https://www.jaguarforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=27

as there are few diesel owners on here.

 

If it's a proper 2005 car you should be OK & not have one fitted. Check the exhausts at the rear & (assuming it has a standard exhaust) if they point down you don't have a DPF, if they point straight back, you do.

 

It was registered in Spain in march 2005 so I guess produced a month or two before. The exhausts point down, Using the i930 I haven't noted anything about the DPF.
Good, I have never understood the logic of filling the motorways in the countryside with soot of any type.
I will get the non DPF oil

 

The i930 will give you no info about a DPF, even if you had one fitted.

 

Thanks everyone.

 

The DPF attempts to prevent that by burning the soot into CO2. If you have non-DPF then you are indeed (to some extent) filling the ... with soot.

 

I must admit I have never gone into what the DPF does, But is carbon (heavy like coal) worse than CO2?

 

Yes to human health because it is tiny particles which get into lungs, cross the brain-blood barrier etc.

CO2 is bad in terms of global warming / climate change, of course.