I have a zafria 2.0L DTI 04 plate - May 2004 registered
and yesterday my wife brokedown , it started , but would only goto 1000 revs - no dashboard lights and smoke out the exhaust.
Roadside thought it maybe EGR valve - took it to there centre to then but on flatbed truck to return home and it started OK - gave it a lot of revs and it ran fine
she drove the 80miles home and it was great , used a few times today
and then it did it again
I went over to have a look, took off the cover for the EGR valve and the mechanism moved freely and the piston went in and out
started the car , and only 1000revs and the piston was IN and i could not move the lever , so the solenoid looks to be working
I did have a push around all the pipes to see if I could make it run OK and made no difference
So i thought we would drive it back home 1mile away and then I can have a look
pulled away and went 10-20yards and it cleared and drove back ok - i was following - still blue smoke out the back , but that got less as we got nearer home
I now want to remove and clean it all out - but cant find anything on the web detailing how to do that - and when i enquired about the cost of replacement part @ £320 , they mentioned hydraulics
so dont want to take it off , only to create another problem , if i take a pipe off an loose all the liquid!!!!!
two pipes appear to come into the unit- not sure how I would get those on/off anyway , as they seem to have a metal crimp on and not sure how to remove that without damage
any guides, advice help would be great , thanks
currently out of work , so finding £320 + someone to do it all - would be a huge problem at the moment .
and yesterday my wife brokedown , it started , but would only goto 1000 revs - no dashboard lights and smoke out the exhaust.
Roadside thought it maybe EGR valve - took it to there centre to then but on flatbed truck to return home and it started OK - gave it a lot of revs and it ran fine
she drove the 80miles home and it was great , used a few times today
and then it did it again
I went over to have a look, took off the cover for the EGR valve and the mechanism moved freely and the piston went in and out
started the car , and only 1000revs and the piston was IN and i could not move the lever , so the solenoid looks to be working
I did have a push around all the pipes to see if I could make it run OK and made no difference
So i thought we would drive it back home 1mile away and then I can have a look
pulled away and went 10-20yards and it cleared and drove back ok - i was following - still blue smoke out the back , but that got less as we got nearer home
I now want to remove and clean it all out - but cant find anything on the web detailing how to do that - and when i enquired about the cost of replacement part @ £320 , they mentioned hydraulics
so dont want to take it off , only to create another problem , if i take a pipe off an loose all the liquid!!!!!
two pipes appear to come into the unit- not sure how I would get those on/off anyway , as they seem to have a metal crimp on and not sure how to remove that without damage
any guides, advice help would be great , thanks
currently out of work , so finding £320 + someone to do it all - would be a huge problem at the moment .