..interested as well..

It seems like everytime I go on a long drives (4-5 hours each way) I end up at 98% soot about the time I pull into my driveway, then have to smell the regen every time I get out of the truck for the next few trips of city driving. It would be nice to start it manually during the long drive if I know I will be making shorter trips during expected regen

 

For me its more of a precaution in case I get into a situation where my truck starts the 7 levels of DPF warning on a long trip....pulling my camper....in the mountains....500km from the nearest dealership.....on a Sunday.

 

That should never happen on a long drive, towing or not. The manual regen would be for fleet vehicles that spend a lot of time idling and/or doing city driving and need a regen to complete without driving. Unless you're talking about low-speed travel off the beaten path, but even that shouldn't be a problem. It's short drives and repeatedly interrupting the automatic regen process that causes problems where a manual/forced regen can be beneficial.

If you have a "keep driving" message on a long drive while towing then you've got a serious problem going on that a manual regen won't fix. You're more likely to encounter a DEF quality poor or service DEF system warning and that is something a manual regen won't help since it's for the DEF/SCR portion of the system and not the DPF/regen.