Egr Blanking Advice

[chrislloydie]

Hi

I'd really like to blank off the egr valve on my 02 1.9 tdi (pd) galaxy.

 

I've ordered a blanking plate with a restricting hole in the middle, as I was lead to believe that this was stop the eml flashing up on the pd engine.

 

However, I understand the vacuum pipe should also be plugged. Can anyone confirm tests all I need to do please?

 

Regards, Chris

[chrislloydie]

Please excuse the grammar, stupid predictive text changing the words for me.

[Scorpiorefugee]

I bought a replacement kit for about £60 3 or more years ago for my 52 115 bhp ghia and it has run very sweetly ever since. Improved MPG, starting etc. I got the garage to fit it because they had it in because the original seemed to be blowing and they couldn't see where. The garage said it was a doddle to fit and everything was in the kit and as far as I'm concerned it was worth every penny. Unfortunately I can't remember where I got it but it turned up on a google search for replacement EGR so it shouldn't be too difficult.

In answer to your question about the pipe I think you just block it up as you suggest and it is recommended that you give the intake a good clean while you're at it. In my case everything was replaced as part of the kit so I now have the old EGR valve which I can't bring myself to ditch but it will have to go sometime.

Apparently the whole thing is yet another addition which causes more trouble than it is worth and mine has had no problems with emissions since I had it removed.

[chrislloydie]

Lol. I've only purchased a metal blanking plate for a couple of quid off eBay. Read a few posts and it seemed this was what people were doing.

[Scorpiorefugee]

I might have been tempted but I had another problem in that area and it seemed the simplest and probably the cheapest way to tackle the problem and at the time I needed the vehicle to be reliable 7 days a week. It also proved that the engine runs a damned site better without this expensive and troublesome 'improvement' as well as being able to reassure folks that it is OK to ditch the EGR. Before the mod I was struggling to get much over 40MPG on a run and it now regularly does 50. I reckon it paid for itself in the first week or two for the trouble free motoring and within a year on fuel and I didn't have to get my hands dirty. 20 years ago I'd have done it your way but I prefer to do the things I'm good at now or just sit by the fire in my slippers. Preferably the latter. :)