Fletch
Striker
Had it blanked mate but left with a warning light on all time (catalyst converter ??)
VW car - EGR valve needs replacing
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Goat Eyes
Striker
The warning is the ECU picking up it’s been blanked. Will fail an MOT.
Find somewhere that will do the delete in the ECU.
Isnt the eml a pass and advise, or has that changed too now?
Goat Eyes
Striker
Fail now.
Thought it was coming. I see the sales of ebay cheap eml readers going through the roof, knock it off round the corner from the mot centre.
Goat Eyes
Striker
Just done it on my mams.
Megane with a persistent O2 sensor fault. Not spending money on something that’s not faulty. Retest took a minute, light comes on after about 10.
FishburnMackem
Winger
Not too sure, worst case scenario you spent an hour putting the EGR valve back on before M.O.T then blank it off again afterwards.
Id do it too. A lot of cars run perfectly fine with the eml on as you know.
The egr valve stays where it is in situ and the blanking plate sits between the egr and the inlet manifold. Usually a couple of bolts to remove to slide the plate in.
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It’s the additional technology bolted on to diesels for emission control that are the issue.
Diesel engines, as in the actual engine itself, don’t care about short journeys, but petrol engines can be prematurely worn or destroyed by a life of short journeys. Diesel fuel is lubricating, petrol isn’t. Rich fuel mixtures on short journeys compromise lubrication in the bores.
Much better drive than an equivalent size petrol. More torque and BHP, far better mpg. Generally much more reliable than people make out. Can last twice as long or more than a petrol engine. I cant say I’ve had one go wrong.
I dread the day I have to go back to a petrol. I get about 45mpg from my Golf with its PD150 engine, and I have a heavy foot a times. To match the performance with a petrol, I’ll be lucky to break lower 20s mpg.
It’s a no brainer for me. I’ll be picking up used diesels and driving them until they’re either priced off the roads or banned altogether.
I have a poor man’s egr disable on my Golf- pulled the vacuum pipe off and plugged it!
Runs much, much cleaner.I was going to get a delete kit and fit it then discovered the law was changed in March which makes it an MOT failure. Typical!
Mind, it passed the MOT with the egr disabled. I’m assuming that because it’s an older car (2002) and didn’t throw up the engine warning light, they didn’t know about it.
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It wont fail the mot unless the egr blank puts the eml on. It wont affect emmisions enough to fail an mot.It’s the additional technology bolted on to diesels for emission control that are the issue.
Diesel engines, as in the actual engine itself, don’t care about short journeys, but petrol engines can be prematurely worn or destroyed by a life of short journeys. Diesel fuel is lubricating, petrol isn’t. Rich fuel mixtures on short journeys compromise lubrication in the bores.
Much better drive than an equivalent size petrol. More torque and BHP, far better mpg. Generally much more reliable than people make out. Can last twice as long or more than a petrol engine. I cant say I’ve had one go wrong.
I dread the day I have to go back to a petrol. I get about 45mpg from my Golf with its PD150 engine, and I have a heavy foot a times. To match the performance with a petrol, I’ll be lucky to break lower 20s mpg.
It’s a no brainer for me. I’ll be picking up used diesels and driving them until they’re either priced off the roads or banned altogether.
I have a poor man’s egr disable on my Golf- pulled the vacuum pipe off and plugged it!
I was going to get a delete kit and fit it then discovered the law was changed in March which makes it an MOT failure. Typical!
Mind, it passed the MOT with the egr disabled. I’m assuming that because it’s an older car (2002) and didn’t throw up the engine warning light, they didn’t know about it.
arthursboy
Striker
Is it linked to the emissions changing and screwing around with the valve, could it be changed for nowt ?
Fletch
Striker
ive tried last 2 days with VW , the twats.. wont take any repsonsibility , and have quoted £1400 ! i took the car to vw yesterday blanked and have told them this morn i want it back blanked
again, im assuming its fine to drive around blanked eventhough will have a warning sign on
will try garage down roker have used in the past next week
PTR
Striker
Any warning light is an MOT fail now. But I think you can get the ECU recoded to turn the light off.
Has anyone tried cleaning it and putting it back in yet?
A good reason why. Fantastic engines.It’s the additional technology bolted on to diesels for emission control that are the issue.
Diesel engines, as in the actual engine itself, don’t care about short journeys, but petrol engines can be prematurely worn or destroyed by a life of short journeys. Diesel fuel is lubricating, petrol isn’t. Rich fuel mixtures on short journeys compromise lubrication in the bores.
Much better drive than an equivalent size petrol. More torque and BHP, far better mpg. Generally much more reliable than people make out. Can last twice as long or more than a petrol engine. I cant say I’ve had one go wrong.
I dread the day I have to go back to a petrol. I get about 45mpg from my Golf with its PD150 engine, and I have a heavy foot a times. To match the performance with a petrol, I’ll be lucky to break lower 20s mpg.
It’s a no brainer for me. I’ll be picking up used diesels and driving them until they’re either priced off the roads or banned altogether.
I have a poor man’s egr disable on my Golf- pulled the vacuum pipe off and plugged it!
I was going to get a delete kit and fit it then discovered the law was changed in March which makes it an MOT failure. Typical!
Mind, it passed the MOT with the egr disabled. I’m assuming that because it’s an older car (2002) and didn’t throw up the engine warning light, they didn’t know about it.
PTR
Striker
I'm not sure how it works either, I always assumed "blanking" it meant bypassing it rather than removing it.
Terraclean folks do EGR cleans I think. Can't hurt.
