Thread: EGR Valve - I think.

So I finally got the defender back last week after a month of it being at the smash repairers in Narracoorte, courtesy of a kangaroo jumping out from behind a teatree straight into the drivers side of the vehicle. (Ah the joys of living in the country, he could at least have had the decency to get in front so the bullbar could take care of him). $6000 later and a $920 excess (the joys of not quite being 25) she arrived home.

Everything was going well until I loaned it to some family members to take to Adelaide. I had a panicked phone call a little ways into the trip to say that the engine management light had come on, I told them to do three short on/off drives and see if it cleared itself - which it did - so they kept driving. Long story short I spoke to the dealer mechanic and he said to take it on a long trip I had planned for the end of the week and see if that helped clear anything.

Had a great trip to Mildura until about 10kms out of town when I went to overtake another vehicle and the engine light came on again and I lost power - not limp mode, just no power. Turned the vehicle off and on again and hey presto everything felt normal. On the trip back from Mildura yesterday I had an increasing problem with it so that by the time I got home I was having to switch off and restart every 3 minutes or so. I got quite good at doing so at 100km/h. I think I would have switched off and restarted over 35 time in 400kms.

Anyway my question to those that know more about these things than I do is, is there anything else besides the EGR that could be causing these problems. I've only just got her back and I don't particularly want to loose it again for any period of time.

Just a quick followup in case somebody else has a similar problem down the track, the cause of the problem was a faulty air flow sensor.

2.2 2012 Defender 130