Right, back onto the topic, just about to pop out and have a look over our S80. I can't imagine it's made it 200k without ever being cleaned but you never know what you'll find... Pics to follow if horrendous!
Edit-: Aaand 40 minutes later, bad light and low blood sugar stop play but it's back together and the mixer pipe and rubber hose are now clean. Not as bad as expected, still pretty bad though around 3-4mm of gunk all round so 6-8mm of the overall diameter. Considering it's a 200k ex taxi though not bad & the EGR still very much in play. I'll have to see if anything is smoother although it was pretty good anyway, but I think the biggest gains for me will be in the plenum/cam cover when I get time to clean it all properly.
Oh and the gunk, not good on toast at all. NOTHING like Marmite whatsoever 
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(current) '06 P2 S80 D5 SE LUX, Met. Gold/Black leather, 200k
(past)'99 P1.5 V40 SE 1.8 (1731cc), Metallic Peacock Blue-Green, Black Leather, Winter Pack. 101k
(past) '88 340 GL 1.7, gifted to me with "slipping clutch" that was a sticky linkage
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