Merry Christmas everyone,

 

I have a 2011 Octavia 1.6TDI with a faulty EGR after a few diagnosis done on it. My question is if it is possible to unplug it while engine off (guess the valve is closed when engine not running) and if the engine will work normally. I don't mind having engine light on. 

 

The main problem is nobody wants to do the job right now because its taking about 5-6 hours to replace it and they are either fully booked or don't want to do the job because of the holidays (I guess).

 

Tomorrow I have an appointment with a guy to do a remap that will disable the EGR and tell the engine everything is fine without the EGR so no lights will come up on the dash. However, the remap job will cost me £250 and I would like to avoid that cost because I will anyway do a complete replacement early next month when someone is available, which will add another £600.

 

Can anyone tell me or has anyone done this before, unplugging the EGR connector will keep running the engine without issues? My worries is that engine (or ECU, whoever does it) will notice there is a problem with the EGR and will put the whole engine into a safe mode, the same as it is right now, I can't go over 40mph and no more than 2500rpm. There's basically no power, like the turbo is dead. The same thing happened when accidentally put petrol instead of diesel.

 

Again, I dont mind having any lights on on the dashboard, I make a living as a taxi driver and every day is a big lost for our family. 

 

For the records, seeing people complaining with faulty EGR on 30-40k miles on the forum, I can happy say mine last for over 180k miles which is damn fantastic. This is the first serious issue I had with this car, running at least 60k miles a year. 

I have a similar issue regarding the egr. Its a pain in the hole. My biggest concern is a weird rattle noise coming from the egr location. I hope somebody has an easy solution even with vcds.

hi 

 on the 1.6tdi if you unplug it it will stay in limp mode. if you hear a rattling at the back of the engine

  it will be the plastic gears driving the valve have stripped and grinding.