Yellow Exhaust Warning Light.

[Greg Roles]

Oil sludge from blowzy. All cars have some sort of exhaust gas recycling, and as it needs to be controlled, enters through a motorized valve. This and other moving parts are in the firing line from physical interference from the oil blowby sludge buildup, get a catch can people!

[Transporter]

...and have the throttle body checked every 30,000km and cleaned every 60,000km or more often. The car is yours, not the dealer's or VW Australia, so neglecting this problem will cost you a lot of money once the warranty is over. Unless you sell it before the 3 years is up.

[hoddy]

EGR Valve was fitted yesterday.
BTW Van has done only 22000km!
The EGR valve had apparently seized and they also had to replace the Exhaust Cooler.
All work done under warranty.
Hopefully these parts last 10x as long

[Transporter]

EGR Valve was fitted yesterday.
BTW Van has done only 22000km!
The EGR valve had apparently seized and they also had to replace the Exhaust Cooler.
All work done under warranty.
Hopefully these parts last 10x as long

Do you drive very short trips hoddy?

[hoddy]

Not really. Work is 25km away via highway and most of the 22,000km was a trip to WA and back.
If there's anything I'm guilty of its not letting the van warm up enough before giving it some throttle.
Will need to do a gearbox reset after driving around in limp mode for 2 weeks.

[Shifter]

OK, engine yellow light has now come on and off three times. finally took it to the VW dealer who saw it straight away. Put VAG Com on it and it came up with an exhaust pressure sensor fault. Pressure sensor probe was replaced on the spot under warranty. Dealer told me that they have a lot of these faults and VW have now changed the maker of the probe? The new probe he fitted has an unlimited K and 2 year warranty. hopefully it will not fail again. Asked him if the particulate filter could be bypassed or removed. He smiled and said it had to remain but he had "heard" of these things being removed but was not sure how successful it had been. There must be a way of removing the bloody thing?

[spiderpig]

Asked him if the particulate filter could be bypassed or removed. He smiled and said it had to remain but he had "heard" of these things being removed but was not sure how successful it had been. There must be a way of removing the bloody thing?

Where there is a will there is a way. The biggest thing im worried about with these bloody DPF's is i do alot of travelling in very remote areas and the last thing i want is limp home mode out in the middle of no where when it ****s itself.