You will need stationary De-soot, Its most likely will need more than 1, Alfa or WITech are the tools needed although others will work.
After the 1st de-sooting just drive it a couple of miles and re-attempt.
Split29, You will find despite the quagmire the 3.0 is in, many owners have blinders on, It has the highest failure rate that I have seen since the 80s, its manufactured overseas, its assembly is done in a rats nest of old outdated tooling. its current OP cannot get out of its way when cold...
No matter how good of deal ,its risky, No longer make replacement Parts or engine, Italy is a LONG ways, No tuning, and you only have Factory Warranty.
The aftermarket is going to be NO help.
https://www.ecodieselram.com/forum/threads/2015-ecodiesel-egr-failure.3360/
I cleaned My Intake (Foamed) and De-sooted (Stationary) every 10-12K miles, I tossed the towel in, Both EGR and Intake were replaced warranty at 44K Miles.
If your Use is DD and Now that You cannot tune I would sell. Its only time before the EPA shuts down on road tuning.
Myself and many others have tested these Claims on the Dyno None live up to their claim of added HP, Only Race Diesel for off road only adds HP Sold at places like Schied Diesel. Off Corse I personally have NOT tested all of them, others over the years have ,and past that info on to members...
You need to check with Your local refiner ,Here In MN its Flint Hills, Most of MN, WI, ND, SD, IA, NB, IL ,ID MI, and many other states Refine Bio-Diesel, 5-20% The Chemist Dept does NOT support additives, its likely the additives with separate the needed package to blend the Bio, IMO most...
Only if your Eco is use commercially. Private and recreational not likely... Yes they check Here in MN, They have diagrams on their Computers and mirrors for the ground work.
GDE, was clearly violating the LAW, Keith dismissed all the warning signs.
YOU do NOT response to the EPA in the manner Keith did.." Improve Fuel efficiency" " Off-road use Only " Testing is Expensive " " DocuSign Difficult to Print" " I assume "
GDE , interacted with Me at 1500XXXX.com I...
It will take Years for EPA Approved tuning, its a long costly process.
GDE...They should have taken the advice I gave them in 2016-17 on Labeling ECM's Maybe that would have help in future development, it certainly would have remove some responsibility...