EXPLODING EGR COOLERS?? 🤯 Crafter 2.0 EGR Replacement

[@ChrisRiley-w1m]

Pain in the back side, replaced lots on T6 transporters. Need you guys to make a kit to bypass that cooling line and the blank plates 👍🏻

[@davidut55]

My first one today, removed front end, remove 4 bolts holding engine supports crossmember to drop the engine down. This creates enough space to work back there, but have to remove the longer stud before taking egr out. Maybe total 5-6 hours, not too bad. Also no need to mess with ac condenser, it remains on the car, after separating from the cooling ones.

[@Corzzaful]

Not only isolated to the Crafters. My touareg and many others here in Aussie land needed to do theirs. Mine went at 200,000km

[@jenny80myles]

That was a blast! :)

[@-sargntclashroyaleandmore-491]

You guys know what to do with the EGR/EGR cooler 👀

[@ivanlinares3229]

Delete

[@KerrWilliamson]

I take the gearbox out when i do that egr cooler . Much easier than taking the engine out .

[@DarksideDevelopments]

It's right at the top of the engine at the rear so would be hard to get to from underneath

[@KerrWilliamson]

@@DarksideDevelopments yeah there isn't a lot of room but enough to get it in and out. Next one you do try it that way.

[@erdemkarabicek4580]

We do take the gearbox out as well, works good and less work then taking the engine out.

[@RogerM88]

If only the EGR cooler was the issue in these powertrains. Add to the list the (in)famous wet timing belt.

[@davidut55]

There is no wet timing belt, the oil pump belt is wet, but never seen one fail even at 300-400k km.

[@imfuctifino]

BMW 335d M57D30TU2 eats EGR coolers , especially when you start working them . Split internally and you get james bond style clouds of steam / glycol out the back

[@alaindunkerque59]

Belle vidéo 👌 😉

[@stevenchilvers]

I’ve got a T6 150ps with the same symptoms at 83k miles.

[@SCOTTDIESELCRAZY]

Can you do a video on fitting 3.5” intake hose bmw f30

[@melashkov]

how likely it could be gasket between egr cooler and egr valve? aluminium expands vs castiron and with the time popentially colant can find way through the gasket. just a theory

[@zeeRooster]

We've had 2 crafters/mans bend rods from the egr cooler pushing coolant into the cylinder

[@toafy1014]

Seen a couple do the same. Customer had 1 with a leak from day 1 was a used van, sales garage fobbed them off until warranty ran out and then it bent a rod. These new vw vans are crap.

[@zeeRooster]

@toafy1014 Agreed there pure scrap. We look after 70+ transporters and never seen the egr coolers cause engine failures only complaints of coolant loss, maybe its a design flaw with the RWD's

[@andyhunt457]

The egr dpf idea is just crap in general. Doesn't really solve anything green issues when viewed as a life cycle solution.

[@sniperpaddy3271]

I had hydrolock blow the head gasket because of a leaking egr. End of my 2.0 TDI Avant just before covid shutdown so it screwed me for ages. I viciously hate EGR's

[@alancobbin]

Bloody brilliant,we love shits and giggles 😂😂😂😂😂👍

[@ShalomBrother]

My TGE 3.180 went at about 80k just before my warranty ran out. Mines a 4x4 so transverse mounted so wasn’t an engine out job

[@stephenhoy-v1n]

We need a egr delete do you guys do 1 ?😊👍

[@DarksideDevelopments]

Drop us an email to [e-mail] with reg/vin

[@IainStallard]

The RWD Crafter's are an absolute nightmare to replace the EGR coolers on. I'm assuming it was also an absolute pig to replace the pipe when it came in before? Doesn't seem to be any correlation between FWD and RWD variants, other than there are more FWD vehicles about so likely more to see FWD fail. As a side note, in my opinion its worth investing in the dealer tooling for cleaning the EGR coolers on T6 and Crafter, as it saves a huge amount of labour when you get the inevitable P0401 code.

[@BlutoandCo]

Why replace rather thsn delete?

[@craigj2483]

Because it will never pass an m.o.t with it missing. Any part of the emissions system missing instant fail

[@bobbieeeee]

Can the mot tester even see the egr cooler in that position? ​@@craigj2483

[@Mac_F87]

@@craigj2483well that’s absolute rubbish. MOT tester can only fail what they can see. They aren’t allowed to remove beauty covers or under trays. EGR delete won’t fail an MOT smoke test.

[@Mr330d]

@@craigj2483You’ve clearly never taken a car with Deletes to MOT 🤣

[@yanntroupel3739]

The EGR delete is not a problem at all for smoke tests, i assume if you had a problem with that you deleted more than just the EGR

[@richardhunt1384]

Presumably you can't do the egr by taking the box out??

[@DarksideDevelopments]

It's wuite high up at the back of the engine in a tight space so would be difficult to do

[@stevenkerry3101]

nice one 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂