Hi i cleaned my egr on my octavia 2002 tdi ALH and ever since ive had nothing but trouble i stupidly tried getting the muck and crud out without removing the manifold ive changed numerous sensors and still problem persists .My question is when cleaning the egr it was almost totally blocked to the point of just about being able to poke a pen through i think i may have caused some muck to go into manifold would this cause my problems and is there any way of resolving without taking engine to bits? The car runs ok for days then losses power etc when under load going uphill etc. I realise now after reading what i did was foolish and looks like im paying the price i know now why i usually pay to get work done! Thanks for any advice

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