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Originally Posted by dswalker6
Hi everyone
Has anyone replaced their EGR valve on their X1 (2016)?
After a few 'powertrain' errors on the dashboard that were related to EGR valve issues, I decided to take it out and give it a clean. Alas, no more errors for 6 months until today. Rather than cleaning it again I'm going to replace it with a new valve - so hopefully it will last longer than 6 months!
I'm wondering if I need to set the valve into 'service mode' before replacing the new one (this mode contracts the valve by 20% allowing insertion) Now I didn't have to do this when I cleaned the old valve - I just put it back in but I've read a new one would break if I did this.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks all.
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Just a thought, but have you checked if your car us subject to the new BMW recall action? Our car is booked in and I was advised that it is for a new EGR cooler. Reading on other forums, this is a new item and does not fit the existing EGR valve, so apparently this gets replaced as well.
Might be worth a check before going to the time and expense of fitting the item yourself:
https://www.bmw.co.uk/en/footer/quic...e-recalls.html
Hope this may help
