Member Since: 23 Aug 2014
Location: Chester/Ibiza
Posts: 189
Black Smoke EGR advice
Bought a 2007 TDV8 the other day and I wasn't until I was driving behind it did I notice it was chuffing a bit of black smoke, pulled the top of the engine and one of the egr pipes at the top has been blowing and everything around it is black, it may be pulling air in or losing air which could be causing the black smoke.
so can I make blanking plates for the EGR's, or should I fix the leak and have them disabled?
Olly
Sat Aug 23 2014 12:16pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 12 Aug 2011
Location: Northamptonshire
Posts: 9022
The TDV8 can't be blanked yet as far as I know. There may be an EGR emulator available at some point but if you just disable/blank the EGR it will throw errors.2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed
Sat Aug 23 2014 1:03pm
nastyduck
Member Since: 26 Dec 2007
Location: Ljubljana
Posts: 19
"it may be pulling air in or losing air which could be causing the black smoke"... Yes, you are right about that. Just change the pipe and don't mess with EGR.RRS TDV8 HSE
Sat Aug 23 2014 2:18pm
Olly-ibiza
Member Since: 23 Aug 2014
Location: Chester/Ibiza
Posts: 189
The guy who usually maps my vehicles advised me to disable the egr as they are nothing but trouble?
Sat Aug 23 2014 4:25pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 12 Aug 2011
Location: Northamptonshire
Posts: 9022
Euro IV engines like the TDV8 monitor the EGR for activity. If you just disable it or blank it then it detects that and throws an engine fault. I think it might even go in to restricted performance mode but not sure.2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed
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