Originally Posted by
little bram
Yes you are probley right ford mite not give a shit but they do have to work or ford would get load of warranty repairs and after awile have know one would buying there cars because they have to pay to get there inlet ports cleaned out when servicing there car and i would'nt like to pay for that job at a dealers.
As for the euro engines if the pcm adjusts why would they bother puting a egr on. also when i went on a ford courses why would they tell me that if you blocked the egr off the pcm will adjust its self, ford need them on they dont do all that work and then say its ok to blank them off because the pcm will adjust its self.
At the end of the day mate yes it will run better but unless you like messing about with things that dont need doing then why do it i have a mondeo tdci 130 and i have'nt ceaned mine out because it runs fine and i have no problems with it so why touch it.
Also i came on there to help the lad so why go on i dont own ford just work there so why try to make me out to be bad it what i do, if i do a job i alway do the best i can because i respect people car/vans and also take pride in my work, i dont take inlets off and clean them out because they dont tell me to and if i just did it a 2 hour service that the custmer has pay for would take alot longer.
lee
I'm not trying to make you out to be a bad mechanic - I'm just pointing out what hundreds of Mondeo owners have discovered - that if you clean out your inlet/EGR the car will run better, and have better mpg.
Ford don't trouble themselves with it because by the time the issues arise, the cars are out of warranty. Go on to talkford.com, type in EGR and see how many people have problems with it.
I'm not surprised that they didn't tell you anything on your courses - I've spoken to four different Ford dealerships to try and get my car correctly diagnosed and not one of them has a clue. One guy tried to tell me that you can't drive a TDCI without an EGR, even though I have been doing so for the last 4 thousand miles.
You came on here to offer someone some advice, as did I - it's just that your advice is different to mine. We can let the OP decide whether to leave it alone, or clean it out.