As most people are aware mot regs will change soon and many of us have removed the egr and will need to replace it i can find the the egr valve and the two bits of short hose on the top intake but not the braided hose or the pipe it fits onto.are they still available or is it fabrication time?.

Fabrication time and knock something up that looks like it was supposed to be there, I was looking for all the parts last week for my neighbour and found some but not all parts.

TBH I would be inclined to first check with Land Rover for a definitive answer as to whether it was specified on your vehicle as part of the then emissions regs and whether it will be part of the data sheet for your age of vehicle that testers would be required to go by?

Basically, if the relevant info isn't available to the MOT tester then he can only test what he can see and if it passes the emissions test then all's good.

dieseldog69 said:

Basically, if the relevant info isn't available to the MOT tester then he can only test what he can see and if it passes the emissions test then all's good.

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Think this hits the nail on the head really, any fairly ordinary mot'er will probably not have intimate knowledge on which landies left the factory with what (especially if they're under 30), and no doubt the DVLA database is going to lack info for the tester, so they'll just stick it on fastpass and if it produces a clean result then job done. I asked my indy last week about the subject and he implied the same, not an mot friendly task to find out this info when cars were supplied with lots of configurations when new.

Might be worth grabbing the bits you're missing off ebay and just cobbling it up to look like it works if worried - mot man cant pull hoses and apply vacuum to the egr or anything like that to see if any of it actually does work afterall.

Whether your vehicle should or should not have been fitted during manufacture with a cat and/or an EGR is all bound up in the vehicle VIN, if you or your MoT tester can be bothered to decode it:-
https://www.landroverworkshop.com/vin-decoder
TBH, unless your vehicle fails the emissions tests I don't think the tester is going to dig too deep to see whether the EGR has been removed or not. Obviously a visual check can confirm whether a box that looks like a cat is present in the exhaust system while the vehicle is up on the ramp for other checks on the underside.

My tdi was mot'd last week and the tester commented that it was one of the cleanest running discoverys he'd seen, the cat has been fully recovered and the egr is also blanked.

Good site that @brian47 . Amusingly my vin number indicates a 16L engine (odd for a 97 disco?). But the engine is actually a 23L, and is listed as 23L in the logbook.

The VIN for my RRC says it was a 2.4 VM, however the V5 calls it a efi not a td