mslmsl. 10-12-08 21:21. A friend of mine has a 1.6 zafira, its two years older but has had the same problems, last of which was the coil pack, they have had an identical lack of power on two occasions the first time his local dealer removed and cleaned the throttle body (under warranty), the second time he decided to use a fuel cleaner (redex I have same problem on my 2011 2.0 turbo 4x4 estate, serious lack of power fuel terrible same as yours 18-21 avg. car def in limp.. lagging up hills juddering etc. near cuts out when changing to second gear. Trafic Vivaro Primastar EGR Valve Problems. Van smoking and not much acceleration? Quick chat about my experience with a clogged up EGR on a Trafic DCI van. The EGR valve sits at the back of the engine to the right of the throttle. Its about 1 1/2" round and 2 1/2" long and bright silver. Its held on with another two torx bolts. Good scrubbing with carb cleaner and a toothbrush and cotton buds is about as good as you are going to get. Thought this may be just to do with the EGR valve now being clean. Thought I'd take the car to the car wash today, jumped in, started driving "Coolant Low, top up coolant". Quickly checked, there was enough in the tank to get me 30 seconds up the road and back to have the car washed, if it was a major leak. Got back home and checked the area I 17 posts · Joined 2019. #2 · Oct 2, 2019. I get the P0401 code all the time (restricted air flow to egr ) , I also have a 16cdti ,I cleaned out the metal looking Flexy pipe at back of engine right hand side , it did help for about 1000 mls but recently popped the code up again thinking about spending £110 on a terraclean. Latest 2016 Vauxhall Insignia Problems. 1. response. EGR valve flow. Engine management light goes on and then off reporting EGR flow, can stay on for a minute or several days and only persistent in hot weather. EGR valve replaced and link pipe cleaned which solved the 2016 Vauxhall Insignia 1.6 SRI TDI Estate. EGR valve - plonker : Hi Screwloose. Apologies for not getting back to you immediately - family and grandchildren problems. Yes, I would like a serious answer! The car is a 1.6 Club automatic, first registered May, 2001, engine type Z16SE. The EGR valve was replaced when I bought the car last July. 0RuVH9.

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