Great detailed video, i appreicate you taking the time to film it

If you don't want to do the complete inlet manifold stripdown. You can do a very easy partial strip down and clean. We took off only the Throttle body and the swirl flap assembly. Both are shown in the first section of this excellent video. Ours were very dirty with carbon build up. The swirl flap assembly was so thick with carbon that the flap couldn't move. We Cleaned them all up and refitted them. The Improvement in mpg is excellent. Our mpg on motorways has gone up from around 45 to 48mpg to around 54 to 56mpg. Even managed a sustained 58mpg. So even a partial stripdown n clean can have dramatic improvements. For those who are afraid of the complete strupdown. Best 2 hours spent on the car.

Excellent video! Thanks very much. I will be doing this on my 15' Cayenne Diesel with 62k miles on it.

Great video. I'm about to do this plus fix a coolant leak and your video stepped through much of what I'm going to do. Thanks a lot!

Thank you for your detailed and well explained tutorial.

This is a great tutorial ! Thank you for your effort

I'm impressed with your level of detail on this job. Just did it up to the swirl flap not the manifold on my 13 Cayenne diesel and it was worse than yours at 85k. However, the entrance of the manifold looked great so I didn't go all the way like you did. Thanks for taking the time to mention the little nuances of the job. It's much appreciated I know I'll have to do it someday.

Great job

The best intake removal video by far. Now i know where the clip goes that i found deep in the valley for one of the fuel return hose. Have you thought about deleting that thing . You would probably make a great video as well. Maybe also a fuel pump failure prevention kit as well. Great work !

Hi Excellent job and video! Just a comment, on my 7L touareg, excess of consumption and 2 symptoms, when downhills, temperature downs a bit and smells of fumes inside the car. May be is some leaks in the intake and egr sealing? Thanks 😅

I did the same job but I damaged the rail fuel sensor . I replaced the sensor and now doesn’t start the engine . I double check all connectors and everything looks good and no errors on VCDS. Also plugged a charged battery and crank but no start. I completely removed the rail fuel pressure sensor connector and the engine started from the first key. Faulty sensor. 😊

I can't thank you enough for this video and the amount of detail. I have a coolant leak that I need to fix and had no idea how to properly remove this and will clean all when I take it off thanks to you. What brand gaskets did you use? What would you say was the best thing for cleaning the intake?

Interesting video and thank you. My 2015 Cayenne had a coolant leak at 95,000 miles … i paid the dealer to repair … they also had to remove the oil cooler and replace the coolant valve … crazy process … now im wondering if the dealer took time to clean the intake … the engine does seem to have less lag and better throttle response so perhaps they did … thanks again for sharing the process

Отличная работа. А прокладки резиновые на заслонках менялись ?

I cleared the throttle body then used a long brush and a shop vacuum to clean the manifold instead of removing it.mostof the buildup is in the 2 throttle bodies.

I'm just researching how to do this job on my 7l Touareg. Not sure if you've encouraged me or put me off! But, why did you stop where you did? I thought the main EGR valve is between the inlet manifold and turbo, and is one of the main items to fail because of carbon build up. Likewise, is it worth swapping the glow plugs whilst they are exposed?

I’ve been putting this repair off for a long time I was thinking about drilling a small hole on the top of the intake in the center just enough to spray the cleaner in it while it’s running.

Perhaps I missed it….did you have to do anything to relieve fuel pressure from the rails? Also, any type of prime procedure to refill the rails once complete?

Damn, I was really hoping to see the inside of that intake after you removed it and before you cleaned it. Was wondering if it was as caked with soot as the valve was? Or was it not as bad and could have possibly have been skipped? Like, would it be ok to just clean the valve out more frequently, instead of taking the whole things apart and removing the crazy intake manifold? Or, would that just cause the intake manifold to mung up with soot more and more, and only effect the valve? Sorry for the goofy questions... I realize you may as well do it properly, but this is very intimidating!

Hello,i have the same car white 400.000 km,is this cleaning nessesairy? have you some problems,groeten from Belgium,

I probably would have replaced the EGR gaskets and valley gaskets since the intake was off.

Good job. What oil dip stick did you used please . Most of them does not have oil level stick

Hi, where did you pry the intake from to get it loose?

Hello I have Same Car 2011 vw Touareg I Did Same Job Remove Intake And Clean It Up After I Install Evrythink Beck together Won’t Stars it Gives Some Codes Any Think Helps

great video but how on earth do remember how it all goes back together?

Why isn't there a filter/collector type thing between the exhaust and the EGR? That is a ridiculous pain in the ass to clean, and is obviously going to be a problem since the exhaust is fed back into the intake... No wonder people delete or bypass the EGR on these things, WOW...