Def fluid issues

austinpruitt62

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I have a lml with 23,000 miles. It's drank a half a tank of def fluid in 1,000 miles so I took it to the dealership. They ran a soot test on it and said it had 44 grams of spot build up where it was not being burnt out. They also hook a tech 2 up to it and said that they could find no issues. Any one else had this issue?
 

onebaddmaxxx

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indirect injector is bad. pull the pass side fender well out and in the down pipe towards the bottom there is a mini injector that is connected to a small fuel line on the pass side rail. Its supposed to operate at 50-60psi. they get messed up all the time and leak. If you pull the injector out, tap it against the pipe and i think you'll find that some fuel drips out :thumb:

Basically the injector is leaky and when if you try to do a force regen to clean the soot mass, it leaks bad enough to keep it clogged up. I worked for GM and its a pretty common thing