Spuudercat
Registered User
OK I know there is a lot there, let me take you on a short journey!
I bought the A6 (2006) 2.0TDCi about two months ago and have been relatively happy with it. I knew it had a few flees when I bought it and sorted these out. The aircon was goosed so a new unit was put in (nice and cheap that one .. not), the rear brakes were sorted out with new disks and I bought a new throttle body for it as the old one had "issues". So all good so far.
The issue I have is that when I tried to do the normal EGR blanking plate trick, that I seem to do to all diesels I buy. when I fitted it though the car felt like I had a potato up the exhaust and responded very badly. Incredibly slow acceleration which was the opposite of the norm.
Recently the car has started taking a few turns of the engine to start and this seems to be increasing in time, a bit of smoke when going off in the morning or hard acceleration and the fuel economy isn't ace (about 40ish)
I bought the A6 (2006) 2.0TDCi about two months ago and have been relatively happy with it. I knew it had a few flees when I bought it and sorted these out. The aircon was goosed so a new unit was put in (nice and cheap that one .. not), the rear brakes were sorted out with new disks and I bought a new throttle body for it as the old one had "issues". So all good so far.
The issue I have is that when I tried to do the normal EGR blanking plate trick, that I seem to do to all diesels I buy. when I fitted it though the car felt like I had a potato up the exhaust and responded very badly. Incredibly slow acceleration which was the opposite of the norm.
Recently the car has started taking a few turns of the engine to start and this seems to be increasing in time, a bit of smoke when going off in the morning or hard acceleration and the fuel economy isn't ace (about 40ish)