Cromatix
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I've just got a Croma 1.9JTD 150 and it's making me very anxious. It's a 2006/06 has 74000 miles and has a string of symptoms that say "EGR valve", but it has a new EGR valve and I've taken it apart and checked it and it all seems OK. I've been reading this wonderful forum for hours and have ended up like a car hypochondriac (feeling that my car must have all the most expensive ailments known) so I have decided I had better be brave and join up and see if I can benefit from your collective experience on these things. I wonder if any of you can point me in the right direction:
Symptoms:
Thanks!
I've just got a Croma 1.9JTD 150 and it's making me very anxious. It's a 2006/06 has 74000 miles and has a string of symptoms that say "EGR valve", but it has a new EGR valve and I've taken it apart and checked it and it all seems OK. I've been reading this wonderful forum for hours and have ended up like a car hypochondriac (feeling that my car must have all the most expensive ailments known) so I have decided I had better be brave and join up and see if I can benefit from your collective experience on these things. I wonder if any of you can point me in the right direction:
Symptoms:
- Low torque/power at low revs, but plenty comes suddenly when you floor it. It's particularly bad in first gear so it seems that it's somehow load related.
- Intermittently "misses" - typically when not under load
- Exhaust makes a farty kind of noise (like it's got a Vauxhall Corsa boy racer exhaust thingy.) This is over a fairly narrow rev band when under load and has begun since the "low power" symptoms and may not be related.
- Poor fuel economy (around 37mpg on A and B roads)
- Judders and fires unevenly on starting for the first few seconds, then evens out.
- I have checked the EGR valve - it is new (months old), clean and functional (according to MultiEcuScan)
- Cleaned MAP sensor - now a little better at low revs, but still pretty rubbish.
- I have driven it quite hard to try and "blow out the cobwebs" in case the previous owner was too gentle. No change.
- The OBD had stored errors for EGR and two others. I tried to clear just the EGR one and managed to clear all of them and now I can't remember them, but I have driven it since and no new codes have been stored.
- MultiEcuScan reports what looks like decent turbo boost
- The DPF seems to have been regenerating and is being reported as "normal clogginess."
Thanks!