All done in less than two hours, thank you, saved me a fortune!

Great video. Straight to the point. Did it myself and saved a fortune. Thanks a lot

Thanks for putting this video up it really helped me do this job myself and was actually not to difficult with your instructions and hints and tips👍🏻

Your an awesome guy, really appreciate your patience and in depth help.

Very handy video, I have just done mine - saving hundreds on labour. Thanks a lot!!

Just replaced my EGR & cooler on my T5, using your video. Great help, couldn’t have done it without as I’m not a mechanic so thanks very much 👍(it was still bloody awkward though).

thanks mate, this helped a lot. i was hesitant to do it myself until i saw your video. did it in 3 hours, easy. cleaned it with oven cleaner, cleaned out the oven cleaner really well, let it dry well and fitted it back. fault 401 disappeared right away at starting the engine. Great video, thank you very much for sharing.

Excellent step by step guide, changed mine no problem. Got the replacement part from Amazon £190. Garage was going to drop the engine to replace, so this video saved me ££££'s So many thanks. You look a little like the actor Simon Pegg by the way😁.

That man deserves a beer. Thank you.

Great video! You have saved me a lot of £££'s from what it would have cost me if I had taken it to the garage. A BIG thank you.

Thank you Andy from The Garage Did mine today, about three hours all in. The 12mm nuts on the exhaust manifold link were solid so lots of wire brush and plus gas. Rest was clockwork as per video. Clamped radiator hoses so as not to lose too much coolant. Didn't adapt new one, just removed fault codes with ELM 327 and Torque app. So far so good.

Great video cheers, swapped mine this morning without adaptation and appears fine.

Great video really helped me. Your insight was so helpful. I did take my valve to pieces and 4hrs of cleaning it’s back on and running better. It does take an age with oven cleaner and some small long files to get the carbon out but a cheap solution.

Awesome video, just saved me a few hundred quid getting one replaced at the garage 😋👌🏻

Thanks for putting this video up. Just replaced my EGR following your guide. Some great tips in there. My local VW van centre quoted 3 hours labour which would have been £300! I did it quicker with zero experience! If I were closer to you, I'd certainly use you for service work. All I can say is thank you.

Cheers for the info, done mine today and a quick look at this video helped me swap mine over without any problems. My old one on the cooler side was fully blocked with soot so was worth the swap

Great video, thank you very much for sharing. Very insightful!

The tips helped greatly. Well explained. Thank you.

Thank you so much !! You help me to save so much money 👍🏻💪🏼

Thank you so much for this video, instruction to remove and replace were spot on. Made the job so much easier. P0401 error - egr insufficient flow. Both sides of the EGR cooler were completely blocked. I soaked it in cheap cellulose thinners (gun wash) the baked on carbon turned to a sludge that was really easy to remove with a length of thick welding wire. Cleaned the inside of the EGR valve with a tooth brush and carb cleaner. Messiest job I have ever done !! Back on now a, revs cleanly, goes like stink and no more error code. £20 worth of cleaning stuff a load off rubber gloves and and afternoons work has just saved me £300 :-)

Thanks for these video Andy , Kind Regards

yeah good video, nice and straight forward, well done, cheers

Thank You for this video. Gonna swap mine tomorrow

Great video!!

Thanks pal Saved me a few quid 😉

Thank you. Great video.

Some good tips from experience thanks 👍

Attempting mine this weekend🤞

Thanks very much for taking the time to explain. I replaced mine a couple of days ago and it was, for the most part, painless. For anyone else who has not tried this yet I would add- 1 - clamp off the hoses to prevent coolant loss. 2 - get new gaskets (all around) and nuts ( the back pipe where it fits to the manifold ). The Valeo EGR only came with 1 gasket, I needed 3. 3 - remove the angled pipe off the difficult hose once the valve is out rather than just changing over the O ring.

un grand merci pour votre vidéo!!!

ace thanks for sharing

Thanks nice job for tomorrow

180 version, if you swap the cooler out in early mileage are you better protected from the issues on web about heavy oil usage and engine wear?

Tools required: Long T30 torx bit as shown (absolute minimum length of the thin bit 60mm) T20 torx bit M10 spline bit (male) 12 mm socket 8 mm socket flat bladed screwdriver 2x hose clamping tools hose clip tool (or large pliers) 3/4" drive ratchet, medium extension and wobble bar/elbow plus any 1/4" drive tools for easy access Parts: Valeo EGR valve from Autodoc cost me £200 including delivery (comes with a couple of gaskets) About 500ml of coolant depending on where you clamp the hoses and how much you lose. Penetrating oil (WD40 plus gas etc, I used ACF50 as it was all I had knocking about) Procedure: As video, except: If your 12mm nuts are very rusted on, you can still remove that copper pipe from the EGR side, you need the M10 spline bit and a wobble bar, small/medium extension and a small ratchet. The bolts are 90 degrees to the T30 mounting bolts that you need to locate anyway. Once the EGR is out you have more room to work on the 12m fastenings. With oil and steady pressure mine came off fine and I was able to clean them for reassembly. You don't get the gasket for this connection with the Valeo EGR valve though, as you get the other two. I just refitted the original one. I cleared the code with a cheap code reader, I don't know if the EML will clear itself after a run but I don't think you'll need VCDS unless you've got a lot of faults (I only had P0401). In any case, 3 VIN VCDS is like £200 plus your EGR is still way lower than any garage will quote to do the job. Even removing the more difficult bolts it still took me under 2hrs working very slowly and methodically with a few tools brought home from work. The EGR that came out looked like new but was blocked with black carbon inside. I'm hoping the problem is now solved.

Top man

Hi I am getting smoke coming from the engine Bay Area and my idle will go up do you know if this could do with the egr being blocked? I have no engine management lights on thanks Ryan

excellent video, could you please list the tool sized required to do the job? cheers.

I changed mine yesterday thanks to this video. The only thing I did different was remove the pipe round the back to access bolt. Because I couldn’t on it. I have very little mechanical experience so thank you very much. Just one question. I reset the EML light, do I still need to get it plugged in and formatted?

Hi I'm thinking of cleaning rather than replacing, but the gasket between the Cooler section and the main valve body isnt part of any set of gaskets that I can find. Even tried my local motor factors. Can you usually re-use the existing or can they be obtained?

I have a fault code p245700 EGR cooler below efficiency threshold on a 2016 t6 2.0tdi 150ps - also have a faulty EGR temps sensor a fault code - are they linked? Should I be replacing the EGR cooler? Or even the whole EGR?

Is there a test for faulty EGR valve ? Can you pressure test just the Valve? My T5 is using coolant and overheating. The head gasket chemical test passes for coolant dissolved gasses. But an LPG test was also performed and dissolved LPG was found in the coolant. Also no signs of bubbling in the overflow, and no foaming in the oil. So is no. 1 suspect EGR?

Hi I have the EGR sensor 2 Fault on my 2007 1.9 7H T5 - it runs fine but is very smokey before it warms up - then its fine - runs smooth and fine other wise? could this be the EGR cooler? #

So what your saying is just replace with new and don't try to clean it ?. Is there something I cane do to make the new one last longer

Just done this! All good until I dropped one of the T30 Torx bolts into the engine bay, it didn’t hit the floor so it’s lost forever! Now I need to buy a new one, it’s one from the flexi pipe at the front right, anyone know the size?

What I can see this guy know what he’s doing

Do you need to crimp the coolant pipes to stop coolant flowing out when you have removed the pipes? When you reconnect the EGR does coolant flow through or is there an air bubble? Thanks in advance.

Great Video thanks for sharing over 4 years ago. Can i ask when you say 'Adapt it back in' Do you mean just follow the VCDS instructions you included in the video to code it in? Sorry just want to know what Adapt back in means. Also did you torque the screws back in or just screw back in firmly? Thanks

Would it have been possible to repair the spring that was faulty in this unit as a quick fix?, when removing the spring housing, is this replaceable once removed? Thanks in advance for your time! And top video for us vw addicts!

How much was the egr vale ?

Andy my 2010 transporter runs rough on idle! Vw said it needs a diesel pump as they say dirty fuel has clogged it,the van runs perfect when warm. Could you please advise fella

Hi just looking at the actuator to the back of egr, what is it for? I tried moving it by hand but its not budging, i can pop it off arm and manually vac pump actuator which operates ok, thanks

Do you need to empty the engine for coolant before replacing the egr-cooler?

Is it a valeo 700436

Similar a la VW Amarok?

Great video! Thanks for sharing, how much was the new part please?

Just to confirm: 1)TORQ SIZE - T30 Torx - at least 100mm in length for the back screw (as per the video it has to be a thin shaft - fat shafts will not work pipe in the way) 2)GASKETS You won't need any other gaskets (one comes with units, that is enough) 3)BLEEDING RADIATOR AFTER INSTALL - You will lose roughly 500ml of water for the cooling system. There is no technical way to bleed a T5 this is it.. With the header tank cap off and the system refilled with coolant, i let the engine idle for 5 mins to get it warmish and then held it on a fast idle (1300-1500 rpm). Periodically every 50-60 secs i gave it a fast rev/blip of the throttle. I had a mate stand by the header tank and top it up with coolant as required. I did this for about 20 mins. What you will notice is the coolant level rise and fall as air works its way round and the coolant expands. All the time i have the heater on max heat but only level 1 on the fan (you want it to get as hot as possible and have coolant get in to the heater matrix). Once done and with the engine still idling its worth just going round the hoses and making sure they are all warm. Give them all a good squeeze and try to pump any air through. 4) THERE IS NO TEMPERATURE GUAGE IN T5 very handy thanks VW? The thermostat opens at 68 degrees (roughly) . Buy this trust me they are cheap and awesome www.aliexpress.com/item/Ancel-A202-Car-Driving-Computer-OBD-Speed-Gauge-Water-Temperature-Fuel-Consumption-Voltage-Digital-Meter-Display/32818376875.html?spm=2114.search0604.3.31.7a6fdf74yJYTy9&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10065_10068_10130_10547_319_317_10548_10696_453_10084_454_10083_10618_10307_538_537_536_10131_10132_10133_10059_10884_10887_100031_321_322_10103,searchweb201603_51,ppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=f73e2af7-9cf3-4fe2-aba7-ef47bfefe48a-4&algo_pvid=f73e2af7-9cf3-4fe2-aba7-ef47bfefe48a 5)YOU DONT NEED A DIAGNOSTIC TOOL Glow plug light will flash after installation - don't panic go for a drive after checking for water leaks and bleed. After a 10 to 20 minute drive, the engine management system will correct this. 6)TEST DRIVE (take water with you on the drive - check levels every 5min) note my water level did not move. (carry water for the next few weeks just in case) 7) Clean the old one it's messy but worth it see instructions from other people above.

Just finished this be aware of were you get this from dont buy cheap the welding of the braket is a knightmare, your vid did not mention coolant loss thankfully i read the coments no mention of topping up the cooler at the end VW quoted me £500 all in it sounds alot but its not as this is a sod to do my tip is if its not a Valeo or a VW unit do the main unit screws

Does the adaptation step on VCDS have to be completed?

Do you have to drain the coolant ?

Is it possible to replace it without re programming in the new one?

at 2:37 you simply slide the electrical connecor off, i tried it all now, im about to get the hammer are take it off viking style!

Lol literally just seen this van on auto trader