hd3 Thanks for the tip, I'll wrap it up and took it up out the way similar to yours at the week-end whilst I'm giving the EGR a clean out and de-activate! Appreciate your help guys.

Excellent, I'll be removing the braided hose this weekend and may have a look at cleaning the EGR too. Point taken on the dishwasher, don't fancy my chances of getting away with that one!!

Hi Singvogel Thanks, your posts on this subject were very helpful. As I mentioned I'm not very mechanically minded so I'm not really sure what the EGR does! I assume from reading ealier posts there are no problems by passing or de-activating, what are the implications? I like the idea of...

Hi All New to the forum but been reading up on various post and got to say the advise on this site is awesome. Anyway got my Freelander a few weeks back all perfect except for the plooms of black smoke when under hard acceleration. Having read through this thread I was convinced the hoses were...