don't really want to get into a debate but blanking a egr valve isnt cutting corners.. and a engine rebuild isnt the solution either.

wulliegunn you've already admitted that you've sent your car to ford to get it sorted.. meaning you've never got your hands dirty and had a look at the effects the egr does to other components of the engine or taken the time to find out what the egr is?

my dad has the 2.2tdci and we had egr problems going into limp home mode.. we checked the codes of the car and it had a water temp sensor fault and a egr fault, as we'd just bought the car i fitted a new temp sensor and blanked of the egr so we could monitor the problem before paying for a new egr.

the blanked egr fixed the problems short term but as the cars ecu knew the egr was missing as soon as it realized there was no signal it would automatically put it back in limp mode.. on older models its a vacuum operated egr so limp mode shouldnt be affected.

in the end we changed the egr for a jaguar unit to save hassle of reseting limp mode, but when i changed it i removed the inlet manifold and the amount of carbon build up was horrible and realy shouldnt be in a inlet manifold and its only there due to the recycling of exhaust gases.. i gave every part a clean in the egr system to free up the solid carbon affecting components by restricting them from there intended size

ideally id like to blank the egr of and fit some sort of relay to trick the car into thinking its working.. saving the engine of being filled with carbon which will harm mpg and emissions more than a egr did to help them in the first place.. but no body has made that solution the closist you can get is this bypass kit but i believe limp home maystill be affected

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-MONDE...item1e76cd898f