EGR pipe is a goner

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wammers said:
It possibly won't if you just blank it. But if it has been removed or a none standard bypass fitted it will fail if the EU gets it's way in 2014. Lots of stuff still up in the air yet. But apparently all the European directive on MOT tests have to be in force by then.
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If its had its EGR blanked before the EU ruin the country does that mean it would still fail? :s so all the removed egrs would have to be replace
 
bencorkill said:
If its had its EGR blanked before the EU ruin the country does that mean it would still fail? :s so all the removed egrs would have to be replace
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If you blank it with the penny trick, visually you can't tell, so if it's a visual only checking for presence it maybe ok. But if you have removed it and fitted one of those bypass things off Ebay, then they stick out like a sore thumb, and would fail. But we don't know yet if VOSA will take all the EU demands on board.
 
Three choices cut pipe in half block both ends with say a core plug or any circular type metal fit a new pipe hope egr Diaphragm holds out

Buy a pre 1999 range rover Aluminium air intake manifold and block the Exhaust manifold as suggested earlier And know one will be the wiser
 
I can't see this EGR check coming into practice !

You can't even see mine without removing the engine covers
So is the MOT man going to do all of that to check ??
 
defender300td1 said:
I too belive half the mot checkers don't even know what a p38 engine looks like:eek:
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Possibly true and it is all yet pie in the sky. But never the less is included in the EU regulations due to be introduced on or before Jan 2014. We will have to wait and see what happens. Apparently SRS warnings and Tyre pressure warnings due to be a fail as and from last Jan 2012 are still just advisories because VOSA can't make their minds up.Tyre pressure i believe has been put off until 2015 for cars made 2012 onwards, SRS is in dispute because no one can agree if a car with an SRS warning, is more dangerous that a car that has not got air bags. So the debate continues. Happy days.
 
Datatek said:
The EGR pipe is still there but with the valve closed it does nothing.:)
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Why tell people to block the metal pipe? In my view this can cause a hot spot rather than letting it flow if you can just block the vacume pipe can you just not pull a wire off the Solinoid ?
 
defender300td1 said:
Why tell people to block the metal pipe? In my view this can cause a hot spot rather than letting it flow if you can just block the vacume pipe can you just not pull a wire off the Solinoid ?
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You can pull the wire off, but that's obvious. a slug of metal with a coat of slow tack super glue pushed down the rubber pipe and then re-fit the pipe and the whole thing looks fully functional. We have the new MOT regs here already.
 
defender300td1 said:
Why tell people to block the metal pipe? In my view this can cause a hot spot rather than letting it flow if you can just block the vacume pipe can you just not pull a wire off the Solinoid ?
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Will that not cause an hot spot? The EGR port is then blocked by the EGR valve about 12 mm further along from where the penny sits. Same difference to me.
 
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