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« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2013, 05:40:42 pm »
I'm doing egr valve & cooler removal tomorrow so will put a guide together although its not too difficult to do anyways.
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Re: coolant leak but dont know where water is leaking :(
« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2013, 08:09:25 pm »
I'm doing egr valve & cooler removal tomorrow so will put a guide together although its not too difficult to do anyways.
Jas
Just read your build thread on tdi sport..Excellent mods you have donee.Look forward to the egr cooler removal as thats the next step am doing

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Re: Re: Re: coolant leak but dont know where water is leaking :(
« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2013, 10:28:23 pm »
Just read your build thread on tdi sport..Excellent mods you have donee.Look forward to the egr cooler removal as thats the next step am doing
Cheers ;-)

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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2013, 10:31:10 pm »
I'm doing egr valve & cooler removal tomorrow so will put a guide together although its not too difficult to do anyways.
Jas
:happy2: :popcornsoda:  looking forward to this

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Re: coolant leak but dont know where water is leaking :(
« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2013, 01:28:21 am »
if your removing the cooler then you may as well remove the egr as well

i was told to take the egr cooler off and leave the valve. To see if its the egr it self. Do you think i would need to do anything else ?

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Re: coolant leak but dont know where water is leaking :(
« Reply #20 on: August 26, 2013, 01:42:00 am »
could leave the egr on as that way your not spending money on some thing that isn't causing it to leak

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« Reply #21 on: August 26, 2013, 10:48:04 am »
Egr cooler removal is quite cheap. Approx £13 for the water coupling and about an hour to do it
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Re: coolant leak but dont know where water is leaking :(
« Reply #22 on: August 26, 2013, 01:22:53 pm »
cars going into the garage on tuesday. il keep use guys updated.

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« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2013, 12:31:21 am »
Today I did egr delete but not cooler, will hopefully get to it this week. I'll get a guide together shortly.
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« Reply #24 on: August 27, 2013, 01:32:58 am »
Today I did egr delete but not cooler, will hopefully get to it this week. I'll get a guide together shortly.
Jas

I would imagine you would need to map the egr out of the system. Is that expensive ? If my egr is bad I'm a better of just replacing it with a new one rather than deleting it?

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« Reply #25 on: August 27, 2013, 03:55:37 pm »
You can physically remove the egr by installing a delete pipe. This causes the ECU light on the dash. That's what needs mapping out (on its own will cost around £70) plus £80 for the egr delete pipe. Still cheaper, and more reliable than a new egr valve.

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« Reply #26 on: August 27, 2013, 03:56:08 pm »
PS. You can drive with the ECU light on as I am until you get it mapped out

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« Reply #27 on: August 31, 2013, 09:38:02 am »
I've done my egr removal. Will get a guide done this weekend.
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Re: Re: Re: coolant leak but dont know where water is leaking :(
« Reply #28 on: August 31, 2013, 09:38:59 am »
cars going into the garage on tuesday. il keep use guys updated.
How did you get on at the garage?

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Re: Re: Re: coolant leak but dont know where water is leaking :(
« Reply #29 on: September 02, 2013, 01:18:20 pm »
cars going into the garage on tuesday. il keep use guys updated.
How did you get on at the garage?

they have bypassed the egr. I dont know exactly what they have done but said they have connected a pipe. I am going to keep analysing the coolant level.