robertalbert192
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Hi
I know there's been a few threads on this, i'm not sure if i'm breaking any rules by posting my own issues. I'm new to the forum.
It started the other week....
Occasionally would have a surge of power whilst in the lower gears, then sorted itself and I thought it was just one of those things.
Then a couple of days ago I found when starting off that there was very little power at low rpm, eventually with my foot to the floor, it'd suddenly take off and i'd get the sort of speed I was used to from it. Then once I slowed down it'd be the same problem again. I found on the first day it happened that after about 30 minutes into my journey it seemed to sort itself out.
The next day I drove it again to work, its about an hour. It started off absolutely fine and I naively thought it may have been fixed. Then about 15 minutes into journey the problems started again, then the engine management light came on, eventually the car gave out less and less power until it stalled, then cut out each time it started. I assumed this was the engine management cutting it.
I got my car recovered and checked this site, I found others had similar problems, that seemed to be centred around the EGR valve either needing cleaning or replacing. I took it to my local garage today and explained what I thought it may be.
They rang me back later in the day saying that the fault codes they were getting were referring to the EGR and DPF. They cleaned the EGR out and then ran it for a while and tried to do a "regeneration". It'd run for a while before the EMS putting it back into limp mode. Next step they said was to replace the EGR valve and see if that sorts it. They said if it wasn't this it could the DPF, which I understands is very expensive.
I've read on here about putting an EGR blank in, which assuming it turns out to be the EGR valve may be an idea to stop any trouble with the DPF in the future. I was after any advice on this? I have no idea about cars really so don't know if this has all made sense or not.
I know there's been a few threads on this, i'm not sure if i'm breaking any rules by posting my own issues. I'm new to the forum.
It started the other week....
Occasionally would have a surge of power whilst in the lower gears, then sorted itself and I thought it was just one of those things.
Then a couple of days ago I found when starting off that there was very little power at low rpm, eventually with my foot to the floor, it'd suddenly take off and i'd get the sort of speed I was used to from it. Then once I slowed down it'd be the same problem again. I found on the first day it happened that after about 30 minutes into my journey it seemed to sort itself out.
The next day I drove it again to work, its about an hour. It started off absolutely fine and I naively thought it may have been fixed. Then about 15 minutes into journey the problems started again, then the engine management light came on, eventually the car gave out less and less power until it stalled, then cut out each time it started. I assumed this was the engine management cutting it.
I got my car recovered and checked this site, I found others had similar problems, that seemed to be centred around the EGR valve either needing cleaning or replacing. I took it to my local garage today and explained what I thought it may be.
They rang me back later in the day saying that the fault codes they were getting were referring to the EGR and DPF. They cleaned the EGR out and then ran it for a while and tried to do a "regeneration". It'd run for a while before the EMS putting it back into limp mode. Next step they said was to replace the EGR valve and see if that sorts it. They said if it wasn't this it could the DPF, which I understands is very expensive.
I've read on here about putting an EGR blank in, which assuming it turns out to be the EGR valve may be an idea to stop any trouble with the DPF in the future. I was after any advice on this? I have no idea about cars really so don't know if this has all made sense or not.