I’ve had 4 glorious years driving Volvo, some of the happiest of my life after a career dogged by Mercedes and Daf. But alas the company has gone with Daf this time round. Shift after shift I was clutching any Volvo I could get as they slowly go back to the dealer. Yesterday it was time, big day in a Daf. Conclusion heap of ■■■■. Worse that I remember!
May aswell be steering a cruise ship. And well the warnings… just 6 or 7 including engine, ebs, adblue to name a few. No Red but there is always today to look forward to
Gym membership cancelled I’ll be like big Arnie Schwarzenegger after a year or two. EE contacted to request unlimited minutes because I know I’ll never be off the phone with this heap.
Welcome to my world, malfunctions on screen everyday, my record so far is, 6 in a row, all amber, then a red one, truck brake malfunction, into Daf, lucky I was close by, turned out it was a broken wire, repaired and on my way, 3 amber malfunctions 2 hours later, heap of ■■■■■■■ s hite.
Sapperj
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Look after it clean and maintain them they’ll be fine
Clean and maintain the error messages - sounds about right for a DAF. About the only thing which you can rely on.
I used to think our 15 plates with around 800 - 900K on them were a tad unreliable with all their errors, but borrowed brand new ones during service snd they’ve just added more errors. Think we should keep the 15s.
The Adblue one might cause problems. Ours went into limp mode with that, but the rest are usually alright. AEBS could be muck on the windscreen sensor, and EBS just randomly happens with different trailers.
At least there’s one thing, its not a Renault! They are sometimes worse than an Iveco.
AEBS and Adaptive Cruise Control error messages are triggered whenever there’s a unit or trailer ABS/EBS fault. So get an EBS/ABS and you get those two thrown in for free.
We have a couple of trailers that’ll do it on specific units every time you hook them up. Apparently it’s a software problem and needs to go to main dealers for an update which of course will never happen as they’re leased from Ryder.
trevHCS:
AEBS could be muck on the windscreen sensor, and EBS just randomly happens with different trailers.
As far as I know, AEBS doesn’t use any windscreen sensor, that’s for the Lane Departure system. AEBS uses radar and the antenna for that is on the grille (and is also susceptible to being covered by snow, falling leaves etc).
Anyway, as noted by another, AEBS relies on the correct functioning of ABS/EBS - a fault in the latter will always throw up an AEBS warning as a Brucie Bonus. Fix the EBS problem and pound to a pinch of snuff, the AEBS error will go away as well.
Harry Monk:
I drive a 19 reg DAF and I swear sometimes it shows me every fault code it knows when I switch it on.
The favourite of ours is engine malfunction or that exhaust system malfunction again before it’s even turned on! No idea how that works.
Often one error triggers a whole raft. If the AEBS in in the grill that explains why it doesn’t clear when the windscreen is washed.
DAFs might be cheap, but they aren’t always suitable for the “can’t be arsed,” drivers. For example, the DPF on some of the newer rigids doesn’t auto clear despite older CF artics doing so. Ends up causing problems and expense if its not caught.
A common problem with dafs they don’t like odd sized tyres on trailers.
So when a new tyre is put on the trailer, it upsets the signal being sent, a new tyre rotates more than a warn tyre, upsets abs sensor, then system throws a wobbly, also remove ebs lead from unit and squirt with contact cleaner, …
When you get Adaptive Cruise Control and AEBS fault shown you can’t enable cruise control. To be able to use cruise control you need to disable adaptive cruise control. On the pre-2015 that’s done with a button on the dash. For the 16-17■■ ones that’s done by pressing and holding the down button on the distance adjuster button on the dash til it says it’s turned off. On the newer ones where you use a button on the right side of the steering wheel to bring up a menu you do it there and set to 0. Once you’ve done that cruise control works again.
Conor:
On the pre-2015 that’s done with a button on the dash.
They fitted AEBS to 15 plates? We must have gotten the really really cheap ones as they only got them when the 68 plates arrived. Will let the guy who drives the 68 plate how to get cruise control back.
Always wondered if the system logs whether you turned the AEBS off or if it couldn’t work. Mostly incase of accidents.
Conor:
On the pre-2015 that’s done with a button on the dash.
They fitted AEBS to 15 plates? We must have gotten the really really cheap ones as they only got them when the 68 plates arrived. Will let the guy who drives the 68 plate how to get cruise control back.
Even earlier than that. We got the first Euro 6s that came into the UK which was in 2014 on 64 plate and it was fitted to those. Hill descent speed control, adaptive cruise control and AEBS was there from the start.
Am I just lucky then? We have 2 x 2016 and they have been fab, not a single light. They don’t do massive mileages though, I will admit
My main problem is with a MAN which has been back 4 times to have the DFS light fixed as the regen doesn’t work and it’s a fail for MOT, thank goodness for the extension. They only finally fixed it because I stopped accounts paying the bills until they did
The others just muddle along regardless
Nope, nothing has changed with DAFt, still using the same cab design which was launched 33 years ago, but now with an extension on the back, and some new fancy bits of plastic thrown at it.
They where garbage back then.
Made the mistake of swapping the magnum I was driving for a brand new 105, regretted it on the first day of driving it, took 8 months to get back into another magnum.
