Transporter Catalytic converter problems.

[Umai Naa!!]

It's integrated into the oil cooler, plus it's ECU-controlled.

You should look into getting some goodwill assistance from VW, via your dealer. It's a pretty common problem with them.

[REVHE4D]

Just bought a 2012 T5 400 with 87500k and on the third day the catalytic converter light comes on.
Needs a new EGR at $1500 and out of warranty by 3 months.
Has anyone successfully removed this part to the bin and blanked it off?

Keith

Mine was out of warranty by 6 Months Vw honoured the part by goodwill, I had to pay for 6 hours labor and oil used, cost me around $900, they put a new Egr in and it failed, then the second replacement failed, they pushed for new revised version that had to come from Germany this was a new 2015 part made in March, and new oil cooler also revised 2015 part. I would be pushing for Vw to use goodwill. I also got a new ecu and solonoid installed, Vw paid for the lot. Warranty or not they know about this.
As I mentioned mine was out of warranty by 6 months.

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[REVHE4D]

Forgot to mention if you have had a replacement Egr and it fails again within 12 months all labour and parts for the job are covered under your parts and labor warranty.
Each to had mine in it was off the rd for 1 - 3 days , because my light would come on after a day or so of a new Egr they wanted to diagnose.
My last Egr I had to wait 6 weeks for it to come from Germany, my mechanic refused to put another superseded part in after 2 failing.
These Vw are bloody nice to drive when they are running as intended, but when something goes pear shaped, my wife and wallet are almost at breaking point lol.
Feels like we are doing the R and D for Vw these days, in this day and age things should not be failing at such low kms, but I guess there bottom line counts more, I would hate to see how many have had a new DSG installed. I have heard of 3 just while I was in the room at my dealer overhearing phone conversations, while I was waiting to be picked up.

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[Sunny43.5]

Yes I would like to hear of DSG problems from those owners , pity they are not forum members .

[chopper1]

VW said I had to replace my whole exhaust system.
I pulled all my sensors out and it ended up being the sensor behind the catalytic converter.
So a $7500 new catalytic converter install ended up being a $90.00 sensor

[Sunny43.5]

That doesn't surprise me , the problem today is two fold first one is most car makers and their respective importers don't want to keep thousands of individual parts so they are more likely to keep whole components as its easier for them to fit . Secondly they don't call them mechanics any more they are "technicians "so they will more likely use a laptop of scan tool to check for a problem and in your case it probably came up with catalytic converter failure or fault so they just quote on the thing it tells them is wrong . Most times its a small part attached to a bloody great big expensive part !!