Tempted to clean the EGR? Just do it!

[A lex]

Folks,

I cleaned my EGR today. It took 45 mins from start to finish (including the cleaning).

All you need are:

10mm spanner or sockets
Flat head screw driver
Some petrol or carb cleaner
Some rags and a vacuum cleaner.

To remove the mixer is the sum total of 4x10mm bolts, 3 x jubilee clips and some brute force.

Clean the mixer in petrol and CAREFULLY remove crud from the EGR valve inlet ( I did it with a vacuum cleaner ).

My mixer was about 20% blocked, but the port into the EGR valve itself was about 40% full of crud.

A quick test drive shows a massive improvement in smoothness and willingness to rev and I bet theres going to be a decent economy improvement too - time will tell.

If you are undecided about whether to do this - just crack on! Its dead easy, costs nothing and theres very little scope to make a hash of it. As I mentioned; just be careful not to poke any crud in to the inlet or EGR valve itself.

[Propofol]

I did mine and it was about the same....well, I do believe in placebos and yes it does feel a bit smoother and responsive.

The economy hasn't changed....if anything it's slightly worse.

Car is 2002 V70 D5 Auto at 126K

[Olaf2011]

...did mine recently as well and drives much better, mpg jumped up quickly on some cross country runs but has dropped again slightly to 33ish urban circle (dash reading) ..there was a time when I managed 37 urban but I guess I drive it a bit harder since it is more responsive...