Hi all

 

I think my egr valve is on the way out.

 

A month or so ago the glow plug light started flashing in London traffic. Turning the car off and letting it sit seemed to clear it, but last night it came on again. This time when I restarted the engine (no time to let it cool) the glow plug light came on again, with the EML this time. Limped home and plugged my fault code reader in (not vcds), and got PO403 - "generic egr circuit malfunction". Is this most likely to be the egr valve itself? Garage have quoted £700 odd to replace, so I want to make sure they're replacing the right part. I have searched the forum on this but came up with conflicting info.

 

I cleared the fault codes, but the glow plug light came on again this morning. No eml yet. I did notice the cabin air con heated up as quickly as usual this morning - does this mean the egr may be OK? (I know a blanked off egr makes the heating heat up more slowly, but not sure what effect a clogged egr would have)

 

If I try and clean the valve myself, it's likely to be a short term fix at best, I think? And a right pain to get to?

 

I'll see if I can get some of the work paid for by Skoda as my car had the emissions "fix" earlier this year, before I bought it. But I reckon Skoda will try and wiggle out as it wasn't serviced by a Skoda dealer, just a normal garage... Skoda claim if the garage used genuine parts they'd still cover it, but I don't know what the garage used. OEM I'd guess, which are basically the same as Skoda, but doubt Skoda would see it that way.

 

Bugger. Any suggestions on a diy fix would be great? Or any other alternatives? Is there anything else worth doing while the garage are in there? (2011 2.0tdi scout, cr engine)

 

Should I not drive the car in the meantime? Don't want to clog the dpf or anything if the engine's not quite right.

 

Thank you.

Well, I've spoken to Skoda and they will have a look at the car if I can get it to them, run their diagnostics on it and see if they'll be willing to contribute to the costs. I'm not holding my breath!

You may want to join this facebook group of people having similar problems with emissions fixed vehicles.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/955027937948541/

Thanks paddy. I've joined the group, and it makes pretty depressing reading.

Think I'll look into getting the emissions fix removed...