SRI 150bhp CDTi Engine - EGR Valve

[Stupeo]

I had confirmation on Wed last week that the EGR valve has gone on mine and the Swirl Valves????? Apparently the swirl valves are on back order and are going to take a few weeks to come in!

Now im stuck with a crappy petrol astra sport hatch as a hire car!!

[Russ T Bin]

I had a CDTI SRI 150 - experienced lack of power below 2k revs in all gears, once i reached 2k revs it would drive very well.

I knew what it was and as i didn't have much faith in Vauxhall, i chose to modify the EGR valve myself, the difference was incredible, like driving a new car with new found power, no matter how many EGR valves you have, the problem will always come back - design fault apparently, but you can get round it if you know how

[WN3]

justin cottam said:

White smoke coming from behind the engine, under all the plastic work so I couldn't see exactly where it was coming from, thing is its only done it the once so far. Should I get it looked at anyway?

thank

Ah - i've had that, too - a few times. Took it in to the dealer, who told me it was the dpf (diesel particulate filter) doing a re-gen. This page on an astra forum was loads of help to me http://forum.astraownersnetwork.co.uk/showthread.p... .

I sh@t a brick when it happened first time, but now i know what it is - i can "manage" it.

[Magictrousers]

It can be reapired with washers from B&Q and a bit of evo stick. Basically, the long rod should be attached to all the pins on the swirls on the manifold. You need to replace the washers on the underside of the rod, glue them in place and then place the rod back on the swirls.

Otherwise, the parts from Vauxhall are around £600.

[maurauth]

If you search vectra-c.com forums for something along the lines of "cleaning EGR" you should come across a fairly simple process that you can carry out when the problems start to occur.

[ymwoods]

On the 1.9 CDTI Astra's (don't know if its the same engine, but assuming it is?) they are either blanking the EGR plate off (but leaving a 10mm circle in the middle of the blanking plate so the Engine Managment light does not come on) or cleaning it reguarly.

They seem to have the same problem as your having, and some of them on the Astras Owners Network forums thrash the bks off their cars.

Seems to be a regular thing, for me pearsonally, I want one of these Astras regardless and apart from the EGR, have not seen any, too common, other problems.

When mine arrives I am just going to blank off the EGR (apart from the small hole) then clean it when I service it.

I suppose, is the power and rest of the car worth having to clean the EGR now and again, and/or blank it off. In the Astra its a 10-15 min job, once you have done it a few times.

Edited by ymwoods on Tuesday 9th February 06:39