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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: MaxV6 on 23 September 2010, 17:34:44

Title: v6 vectra questions
Post by: MaxV6 on 23 September 2010, 17:34:44
a mate has a v6 veccie, and apparently something connected to his EGR needs replacing...  and is allegedly , according to garage, pretty much an engine out job...


surely that's mad innit??       any comments  gratefully received....   


he's up in North Wales, (Colwyn Bay) so i can't just go an look.



Title: Re: v6 vectra questions
Post by: Welung666 on 23 September 2010, 19:48:30
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a mate has a v6 veccie, and apparently something connected to his EGR needs replacing...  and is allegedly , according to garage, pretty much an engine out job...


surely that's mad innit??       any comments  gratefully received....   


he's up in North Wales, (Colwyn Bay) so i can't just go an look.




Anything more specific than that? We do vague very well here but it tends to hinder a diagnosis somewhat.

You won't need the engine out of a VecBV6 for the EGR but like I said depends what really needs doing.
Title: Re: v6 vectra questions
Post by: Brikhead on 23 September 2010, 23:17:07
Just a stab in the dark but is it a 2.6?
Did the codes come back for PO430 and PO420?
Quite common on these engines, some say super unleaded helps, others just ignore it, it shouldn't effect performance...
Title: Re: v6 vectra questions
Post by: MaxV6 on 24 September 2010, 12:38:20
i think he means the  veccy equivalent of the (vacuum?) pipe running down from underneath the EGR valve back in to the block?


Title: Re: v6 vectra questions
Post by: TheBoy on 24 September 2010, 13:52:26
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i think he means the  veccy equivalent of the (vacuum?) pipe running down from underneath the EGR valve back in to the block?


corregated pipe to exh manifold?
Title: Re: v6 vectra questions
Post by: MaxV6 on 24 September 2010, 14:13:55
i'm really going to have to get clarification....  it might be....  however, he's less car savvy than the average eskimo,   knows his stuff about bikes, but can;t seem to get his head around cars...      and he's 240 miles away....   which aint helping.... 

we used to live 1/2 a mile away and they're our best mates...  as it were....  so i'm keen to help, but a bit far away to translate in to accurate identifying.... sorry, useless i know...