The front - frequency solenoid - £115 and no wont be changing the fuel filter. As I suspected, nothing to do with the fault. Thw WD made no difference to the running of the car afterwards, but anyway Ive still got my FRAM filter if necessary - ohh I can just see you all falling off your stools... lol
(If you lift off the throttle slightly it actually increases power from about 80% down to only 70% down! - ie slightly improved for a few seconds)
You have to take things with a slight pinch of salt, humour and tone is never captured in the written form.
You also have to accept your initial diagnosis of fixing the problem with WD40 was very amusing to a lot as no one has ever attempted such a fix.. There is standard fix for this , which has been worked for years time and time again,so bearing that in mind you will open yourself to a bit of ridicule ..that is human nature.
This is a grown up forum not children holding hands.. playing ring a ring roses.please enjoy your stay, learn & share your experiences..let leave the comments and the last words for the meet. Joining a forum to have the last word will get people back up and you will never get any help.
Let leave it at that ....
I concur, these filters are extremely easy to replace. I've done mine, remove it from the solenoid, pop the top off and replace the filthy filter! (They were absolutely black and clogged). They use the same material that the air filter is made from, I had an old one lying around in the garage, so cut it apart and there was plenty of clean material to cut two small circles out, about the size of a penny. Refit the filters and job done, 10 minutes....its actually easy to remove the little fiter ANd disassemble the actual filter part or it. The paper style filter was dirty so made one up myself...
Ezhik - thankyou thankyou
Ive got some news...
Removing those evr pipes seems to have beem another red herring made no difference. On or off in isolation from doing anything else. There was only one other thing I did today which was to dis ***emble the egr and clean it with wd40. The car has been running fine for another 100 or so miles now which leads me to think it was a dirty egr after all being the main cause. Remember my initial fault code was egr restricted flow.
So in summary Im afraid that wd40 and some time has saved me 700 quid. Dont be so quick to write off engineer fixes as the above poster says. Mechanics these days are unfortunately more often than not nothing more than fitters. They just want to remove the defective part and fit a new one. In todays world of environmental efficiency we should embrace the old values of true mechanicing more. Take a trip out to south eastern asia to open your eyes in that context (not to mention a whole lot of others too!)
Anyway I hope we've learned something... ATB
...Mechanics these days are unfortunately more often than not nothing more than fitters. They just want to remove the defective part and fit a new one. In todays world of environmental efficiency we should embrace the old values of true mechanicing more. Take a trip out to south eastern asia to open your eyes in that context (not to mention a whole lot of others too!)...