Oh boy - the confusion of 2 schools of thought..
I get a feeling the van drives better with the EGR plate
in (no hole) but I'm infuriated by the regularity of the damned Limp Mode cutting in. It's SO dangerous on a motorway!! The ECU is having a laugh at my expense now as the oil light began flashing and eventually gave me a warning to change the engine oil. Car was serviced a week last Saturday...
All this under-bonnet technology is getting very tiresome when it doesn't work or is over-efficient.
If I had a hole in the EGR plate then it lets soot into the manifold and combustion chamber, negating the effort I'd have thought. Total block and remap to delete the thing has to be the way I think. Bit hacked off at the cost though. I just want a clear dashboard again - been a long time since it isn't telling me gloom and doom!
I was just reading about the problems of buying a diesel engined car and not doing long mileages. Life of a DPF is shorter if you never let it regenerate, the cost for a Panda was quoted (in the report) as c £1000-£1500. Once againt the motorist is there to line someone else's pocket.
The same
report said the UK is one of only 2 countries in the EU where diesel is more expensive than petrol - in Holland diesel is 31p cheaper. Govt. recommends diesel engines, everyone changes, Govt. ups the duty and screws the motorist
as usual.
R-V-M