Thanks for the helpful thread. My 2014 Jetta started throwing the DPF fault last year. After reading this thread I realized that it started after I ran the fuel level nearly out a couple times. I didn't realize this was an issue. I have some soot in the tail pipe but it's not excessive. More @Wikipedia
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