2007 Is220d Covered 115,000 Miles

[AXEANDY]

YEAR 2007 !!!!! Well yes its true ive now covered 115,000 miles mainly motorway miles and im now about to have a 3rd EGC Valve! Not from Lexus at £537 fitted though. Today driving to High Wycome the usual happened after so many miles CHECK VSC and the car went into limp home mode. Wouldnt rev abouve 2k and very embarising yet again on the M40. I stopped and called lexus who informed me Lexus OXFORD was the closet dealer. I called them , managed to limp there to be told that the EGC was broke yet again for the 3rd time. Last time was at XMAS as pulled into a airport carpark. The mecahnic at oxford showed me the problem , all clogged up!!! excuss was must have used inferrioe oil!!! Not so! surely these things are under warranty? Lexus would not entertain a 3rd one fitting free as its out of the warranty due to miles. My argument is that the EGC fitted at XMAS has only covered 25,000 but they were having none of it!

£537 english piund to fix!!!! i told the mechanic to clean best he could and put back, in the meantime i called my local NON LEXUS garage who have got a original for £200 for me

Has anyone else had probs with the EGC VALVE? Can it be blanked off?

Receptionist at OXFORD LEXUS stated the IS220D HAD MANY MANY PROBLEMS

Apart for 3 breakdowns and bad fuel econ the car has been fine upto 115k

ANDY

[peco84]

Hello the reason why there is excessive carbon is normally one of two things. I would first check if its had the modified 5th injector fitted as these were deployed to cut excess fuel addition on egr operation if its the old (twin slit) type this may well be excessive carbon build up on the egr system - also if possible see if its got the latest ECU software as this was designed to compliment the 5th injector fix and also poor start up. The other causes would be injectors not fully sealing after a cycle causing excessive carbon built up (you cant really tell by exhaust smoke as the catalyst is so fine and restrictive)

I would advise to look into this asap as cabon build up will be happing on the valves and in the catalyst which can be very expencive

Hope this helps

[FinLex]

Well, there is a new(ish) recommendation for using ACEA C3 specced oil only. Not that I have had any problems using non-C3 oils.