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  1. Remove the 2 bolts and the wire harness clamp bracket see attached file and push the harness with wires out the way to give you a bit of room Then use a deep 12mm socket with a small extention and ratchet was just right distance away from battery and you have got about a 1/4 of a turn before the ratchet touches the pipe which is enough to crack them off then turn the bolts out until finger loose there about 1" and half bolts. The gasket has bent over tabs onto the pipe ,i found you could hold on to tab to save droping the gasket then with the aid of a friend to push the sponge back remove the the egr gasket then you can remove the pipe like monacle says the sponge is durable and you can be rough with it . Once the pipe and gaskets removed crack to 2 nuts make sure you have disconected the 2 muiltiplugs then lift the valve off the studs complete with solenoid iused wynns carb and injector cleaner priced around £5 a tin from halfrauds.A tip hold it at arms lenght when spraying cleaner into egr valve or it kinda recirculates round and hits u in the face unless thats just me . Give it a scrape with a small flat screwdriver ,on the manifold side and use a hover to catch the loose debris,I gave it a little blast round ends of pipe to but that was resonably clean .Be prepared for a shock i was by the amount of build up and reduction i had . I have found an increase of about 5mpg to 7 mpg averaging about 37mpg to my normal 30 around town and 48mpg to my normal 42 on the motorway. youhave to drive the car very light to get anything decent mpg wise or it does cane the mpg I have also had the mpg around 27 when driving it hard ... and if the aircons on knock another 2 mpg off...
  2. thnks again great forum :D lovin the car
  3. thnks for the replys and welcomes
  4. nice did mine this week looked very much the same thanks for sharing great pics used wynns carb cleaner to get my little blighter clean didnt do the mass sensor though might be worth a look
  5. nice did mine this week looked very much the same thanks for sharing great pics
  6. Hello all im new to forum and like a bull at a gate i posted a few things before saying hello to everbody appologises ..what a fantastic forum and site has helped me out alot with my lexus is 220d although was very happy with it as i changed my old car a landrover td5 for this car now i found this site and read a lot of posts im aware of every rattle and problem the lexus is 220d suffers with ..still a fantastic car lets look more at the positives
  7. just finished wash and waxing mine use turtle wax ice cost 12 squid comes with a sponge applicater and a towl polishing cloth,recomend it its a liquid wax can use it on tyres ,dash any black trim dosnt leave any marks or white powder like traditional polish on rubbers and last very well indeed ,used it 4 times now and its hardley gone down ,also u can use it in direct sunlight on the hottist of days the kinda days you wanna be outside waxing your car ;)
  8. just finished cleaning my egr valve think it was replaced at 50.000 miles got 70.000 on the clock now was curious to see how blocked these valves become with carbon.The whole process took about 45 minutes and was shocked to see how fowled it was with carbon,there was no check lights on the car and car did seem to run fine although i did notice a kinda hold back sometimes but put this down to the quality of the fuel ie what garage i used .Now i only use the bp v+ and sometimes add a bit of sto injecter cleaner to a tank of fuel.Used a whole can of wyns carb and injector cleaner and scraped out the carbon build up taking care has to catch what i could with a hover .Looking forward to takin it a spin tommorrow to see if my mpg has gone up any was on average getting 30 mpg round town and 44mpg on a run ..
  9. looks mint col looks same colour as mine and thats argento ice should tell you in the back of your warranty and service booklet if the nice chap at lexus filled it in :)
  10. 1.is your car low urban mileage as modern diesels with dpf's do not like lot's of urban driving.follow steps 2&3 and you should be fine. 2.use the v power diesel every third tank or a fuel additive such as millers dps4. 3.if your engine becomes more audible than usual,take it for a twenty minute drive in third gear at 70mph and will help with carbon build up. have found site that does egr valve replacenment kits iv emailed them to see if they do a lexus version has they only list vw audi bmw etc should get a reply soon im thinking about replacing the egr valve myself as these seem to be problematic might be worth a look if your thinking of keeping the car or it may help anyone else out there having same problems and are looking for an alternative ..theres a good insight into how these valves work to if you not familular with them might be useful ,will let you know if i get an email and they do lexus or email them yourself the address is as follows http://www.egrvalve.co.uk/ hope this helps..
  11. having had the same problem with the bad aircon smell this is my experience first i brought an aircon bomb from halfords think the brand was comma the smell went for a day then returned so after a couple of days brought a second bomb did it again same again smell returned in a day then finaly i brought a new pollen filter from lexus wolverhampton priced £34 changed my filter and hey presto smell has gone for good...incidently i did try brushing of the loose debris from the filter at first and then put it back in the filter was a dirty black but that didnt work the new filter was a brillant white so its worth changing specialy if you wont rid of the smell..the filter is in the glovebox and takes all of two minutes to change if you look in your lexus handbook the details are in there it pops out easily has to be done in recirclate mode..finaly a smell free lexus :)
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