New here, and been reading on here, about removing the EGR which seems fairly straight forward to do and as far as I know causes no problems with MOT. Have also read about people recommending to clean the inlet manifold out? How is it best to do this?

Thinking of decatting it too, but was wondering if this caused any problems with passing an MOT? Apparently diesels only have to pass a smoke test and people pass with no problems, is this still the case? Would there be any implications when the MOT test centre notice the cat has been removed? Also how hard is it to remove the down pipe and replace it with a de catted pipe?

Thank you.

Bump, anyone please?

Question has been done to death really so maybe why nobody has bothered to reply


quick answer... It will cause no issues with the mot by removing the EGR and cat, if anything your emissions will be better.
To fit the de-cat pipe, you'll need to remove the chassis cross-member/brace underneath to make room but its pretty straight forward.


If need any more info on it, try the search option as there's loads of threads already discussing it.


Oh and welcome along

I did it without taking out the cross member. It's not easy though