Glen Douglas
Registered User
Hi all,
Looking for a bit of advice on a tricky situation on a 2015 Audi C7 A6 Ultra with a CNHA engine. I'm an independent garage, the customer who is also a friend has brought his Audi A6 into myself bit of a back story on this car.
The car's DPF failed 3 months into ownership for the customer (previous owner likely doing short drives) customer took the car to an Audi specialist in the Glasgow area who suggested the cheapest option would be to remove the DPF/hollow the DPF out and map the EGR out which the customer done (Not my suggestion obviously) however understandable given Audi were looking for the best part of £4,000+ to replace the system. Car was mapped using a map by a Celtic Tuning vendor and customer reported that the difference in performance was night and day .. for around 3 months, customer reported that the performance of the engine slowly got worse to the point now it's been sitting in my garage essentially unable to drive.
The problem is we can't work out what is causing the problem, I've had the DPF and EGR off the car as they are one unit to inspect, there was massive amounts of carbon buildup on the EGR cooler however I noticed that the company in question have essentially custom made a blanking plate over the EGR to prevent flow through the cooler hence is should essentially just be free flowing so this ruled the EGR/DPF out as a problem.
Essentially the symptoms are, thick black smoke on idle to the point we have to turn the car off after 20 seconds as the garage is filled with the stuff, extremely rough idle, almost little to no power, we are also getting some diesel cracking/knocking.
The puzzling bit is the car had these exact same symptoms prior to the Celtic tuning map and the map seemed to resolve the issue so I'm left wondering if there is anything else we can check?
Is it possible that the car's ECU has reverted back to a factory map setting automatically? I know the new RS models are known for this but I wasn't sure if this was the case for the 15 plate non RS models.
I have spoken to another Audi specialist who has advised to check the inter cooler for damage but again I'm not confident this will resolve the issue.
As far as codes go - We are pulling up EGR excessive flow & P0671 - Cylinder 1 Glow Plug circuit (Plugs were changed 3 months ago)
Cheers
Looking for a bit of advice on a tricky situation on a 2015 Audi C7 A6 Ultra with a CNHA engine. I'm an independent garage, the customer who is also a friend has brought his Audi A6 into myself bit of a back story on this car.
The car's DPF failed 3 months into ownership for the customer (previous owner likely doing short drives) customer took the car to an Audi specialist in the Glasgow area who suggested the cheapest option would be to remove the DPF/hollow the DPF out and map the EGR out which the customer done (Not my suggestion obviously) however understandable given Audi were looking for the best part of £4,000+ to replace the system. Car was mapped using a map by a Celtic Tuning vendor and customer reported that the difference in performance was night and day .. for around 3 months, customer reported that the performance of the engine slowly got worse to the point now it's been sitting in my garage essentially unable to drive.
The problem is we can't work out what is causing the problem, I've had the DPF and EGR off the car as they are one unit to inspect, there was massive amounts of carbon buildup on the EGR cooler however I noticed that the company in question have essentially custom made a blanking plate over the EGR to prevent flow through the cooler hence is should essentially just be free flowing so this ruled the EGR/DPF out as a problem.
Essentially the symptoms are, thick black smoke on idle to the point we have to turn the car off after 20 seconds as the garage is filled with the stuff, extremely rough idle, almost little to no power, we are also getting some diesel cracking/knocking.
The puzzling bit is the car had these exact same symptoms prior to the Celtic tuning map and the map seemed to resolve the issue so I'm left wondering if there is anything else we can check?
Is it possible that the car's ECU has reverted back to a factory map setting automatically? I know the new RS models are known for this but I wasn't sure if this was the case for the 15 plate non RS models.
I have spoken to another Audi specialist who has advised to check the inter cooler for damage but again I'm not confident this will resolve the issue.
As far as codes go - We are pulling up EGR excessive flow & P0671 - Cylinder 1 Glow Plug circuit (Plugs were changed 3 months ago)
Cheers