Hi
Firstly Happy New Year to all...
this is my first post apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.
My daughter has a 2011 Bravo 1.6 TD Multijet. Recently it broke down on the side of the road, the engine would start but die after a second of two. The AA put more diesel in as it was low (but not empty) but couldn't fix it so low loaded it to her house. A mechanic "friend" had a look and said that due to running low on fuel (the range remaining said 55miles!) she had blocked all the injectors with crap from the tank and was looking at about £1000 to sort it!
I had a look and after disconnecting the vac pipe to the turbo waste gate actuator it started in "limp home" mode and I drove it to my home.
End result is that I found the EGR valve is stuck wide open. I've fitted a blank plate (solid) to start with and the engine started and ran (with turbo reconnected) but quickly put on the "check engine" light and after a few minutes went into limp mode due to the valve not moving. Next I stripped and cleaned the EGR valve. It now runs fine but I'm reluctant to remove the blanking plate as if the valve sticks again in the future the plate will enable the car to be driven in limp mode, if removed the car would be stuck on the side of the road again!
However i have done around a hundred miles (mainly short runs up to half an hour) and have monitored for fault codes and do get a "pending" code for EGR low flow detected randomly, it never escalates to a full fault code (or puts the light on) and disappears when the engine is stopped and restarted. should I be concerned? I don't want to give the car back and the check engine light keeps coming back on, I could drill a small 5mm hole in the plate to possibly sort the pending fault issue but don't know how well it would run if the valve stuck open again.
Thanks for any advise.
Firstly Happy New Year to all...
this is my first post apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.
My daughter has a 2011 Bravo 1.6 TD Multijet. Recently it broke down on the side of the road, the engine would start but die after a second of two. The AA put more diesel in as it was low (but not empty) but couldn't fix it so low loaded it to her house. A mechanic "friend" had a look and said that due to running low on fuel (the range remaining said 55miles!) she had blocked all the injectors with crap from the tank and was looking at about £1000 to sort it!
I had a look and after disconnecting the vac pipe to the turbo waste gate actuator it started in "limp home" mode and I drove it to my home.
End result is that I found the EGR valve is stuck wide open. I've fitted a blank plate (solid) to start with and the engine started and ran (with turbo reconnected) but quickly put on the "check engine" light and after a few minutes went into limp mode due to the valve not moving. Next I stripped and cleaned the EGR valve. It now runs fine but I'm reluctant to remove the blanking plate as if the valve sticks again in the future the plate will enable the car to be driven in limp mode, if removed the car would be stuck on the side of the road again!
However i have done around a hundred miles (mainly short runs up to half an hour) and have monitored for fault codes and do get a "pending" code for EGR low flow detected randomly, it never escalates to a full fault code (or puts the light on) and disappears when the engine is stopped and restarted. should I be concerned? I don't want to give the car back and the check engine light keeps coming back on, I could drill a small 5mm hole in the plate to possibly sort the pending fault issue but don't know how well it would run if the valve stuck open again.
Thanks for any advise.
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