Servicing parts of exhaust gas recirculation system — VW
Servicing parts of exhaust gas recirculation system on VW: 10 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
- Special tools named: V.A.G 1552, V.A.G 1551
📋 Procedure
- Connect fault reader V.A.G 1551(V.A.G 1552). Start engine and select engine control unit with word address "“01”". Connect fault reader and select engine control unit 01Self-diagnosis overview: Connecting fault reader V.A.G 1551 and selecting engine control unit
- Press keys 0 and 4 for the function "Basic setting" and confirm entry with Q key.
- Press keys 7 and 5 for the "“Display group number 75”" and confirm entry with Q key.
- When the diagnosis is initiated by the engine control unit, the display in display zone 4 jumps from "Test OFF" to "Test ON".
- Continue to run engine at idling speed until the specification "Syst. OK" is displayed in display zone 4.
- Interrogate fault memory 01Fault memory; Interrogate and erase fault memory
- Check the function of exhaust gas recirculation valve 01Final control diagnosis; Performing final control diagnosis
- Check exhaust gas recirculation potentiometer.
- Press → key.
- Press keys 0 and 6 for the function "“End output”" and confirm entry with the Q key.
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