New Old diesel EGR'S DPF's etc

Can of Forte in the diesel once in a while.

Main cause of problems with modern diesels is trying to make them into petrols - too many sensors, electrically controlled components, higher and higher injection pressures etc etc

Give me a nice simple Perkins come the Zombie apocolypse and I'll be fine.

Cheers guys I'm new to the devils diarrhea . Only experience is my mates mondeo or similar age at work - he spent months shtiing it about its lack of power , smoke etc . He worked himself up into thinking it was the injectors which are expensive then need coding to the car - basically a scrap car .

He took out and cleaned the EGR , then when he was installing it i said ' is that large pipe coming off that supposed to have a 5 inch split in it ??

£18 chavvy blue samco-a-like hose and its good as new !

It will be thrashed- i don't hang about but I'm safe . I have just nursed a aged Renault megane for 15000 miles that was a bit crabby when i got it . After a oil change and a few days of 60 miles round trips it was like a sewing machine ,

If you don't clean the egr then there's a chance the swirl flaps will get clogged and that's another pain in the ass job, personally I'd blank the egr with a plate making sure it's got a 10mm hole drilled in it to fool the ecu into thinking it's not blocked. I have a few Astra vans 2008 1.9cdti and on one I went balls out on tuning to see what would happen..

Fuel wise standard I got 400 miles per tank and power was at 150bhp standard

First mod was a stage 1 map economy, gave me instant 425 miles per tank and a nice torque increase. Three weeks later the gear box shat itself.

After a whole new box and dmf I thought I'd go for it, had a new stage 2 remap and then the power really came in, fuel consumption was exactly the same as well ?!?

The dmf lasted 50,000miles and then I converted to a solid flywheel. Bad idea lol

Managed a chattery 4000 miles and stripped the teeth off of 2nd gear, had another gearbox made with uprated bearings and a uprated dmf to suit the torque incease as well.

Since then I've gutted both primary and secondary cats (no dpf on these vans) then completely blanked the egr removed the swirl flaps and alley welded the necessary holes in the inlet.. The difference is incredible and the fuel consumption is so good I managed to get 479 miles out of a tank recently as well.
A few weeks ago I have had a full 2 1/4 stainless system made with no boxes and I don't need to do any more at all.

The power is unreal the sound it makes is insane and it goes from 0-illegal speeds faster than most things....

I use 2 stroke in my VW Boring. I read up on it,some said it was bull and others raved about it. It did reduce the noise by a noticeable amount so for that alone it's worth it. A VW Pd is not quiet. I also use it in my Frontera as it runs veg.

not really, thats why lucas pumps seize up when running veg.

I've just got rid of a Saab 93 with the Vauxhall 1.9 diesel boat anchor. The basic engine may be fine but the added items are awful. Low mileage, one owner car. Fortunately came with warranty as in 8k miles had 2x flap bars, 1 flap motor, new inlet manifold, pressure sensor on DPF, so many manual regens on the DPF I lost count, full set of new injectors, and probably more stuff I've forgotten and still used to clog the DPF at regular intervals. Did Manchester to Milton Keynes on limp home mode, barely made it up the hills.

Stranded me at a hotel on the wife's Birthday when the crappy GM wiring loom broke somewhere. Took the garage days to search through the loom and find a break. Common problem with them apparently.

Had I kept it beyond the warranty the next plan was to gut the DPF and get the ECU mapped to remove the warning, bin the EGR and swirl valves but ultimately was so bad the dealership offered to buy it back as it was an embarrassment to them. Go on ebay and search for any modern ish Diesel engine and you'll see countless people selling the parts to remove all the useless bits and will ultimately end up with a decent engine if you can put the work in.

Not stirring up hatred but growing up near Luton and knowing the people that built them I've always thought Vauxhall were awful cars. Even the employees would admit they only had them as the staff deals were so horrendously cheap you couldn't say no. This was the first purchase I made with Vauxhall components in and there was barely a week I didn't have cause to regret it.