EGR trouble..

[h22tq]

Hello,
I just bought a cx-7 a few weeks ago with about 50k miles on it. love the car but only a few weeks and I got a CEL. went to advanced auto parts and they said it was on for EGR flow insufficient. so I investigated and it seems to be a common issue around this mileage. odd. the further I investigated I found to have this done at a dealership is about $1200. that's insane so I bought this one:
http://www.partstrain.com/store/?PN...798+4294966602+4294966817&Nr=AND(universal:0)

the part itself is slightly different in size but it still butt's up the same. it also required a longer hose since the hose placement was also different. I installed this part today and everything seems to be properly connected yet when i cranked the car it is now misfiring and the traction control light is now flashing . If i had the money to take it to a mechanic i would do so. I'm no mechanic but I'm pretty savvy. I don't have the slightest clue how misfiring or traction control light flashing could even be related to the egr but i didn't break anything and everything went back the same as it came out. I know this may be a little advanced for a forum and very hard without seeing it yourself but any help would be very much appreciated. thanks

 

[erhayes]

Is this not warrantied for 5Y/60K miles?

 

[h22tq]

Is this not warrantied for 5Y/60K miles?

not the EGR

 

[h22tq]

okay. I spent all day today reversing my steps. What I've learned: If you have to replace it buy the OEM part. do not buy the part I have linked to up above. It does not work apparently. I clean the original part out and sprayed it with wd-40. I put everything back the to stock and it works fine. no CEL it's only been driven for about an hour so I'm not 100% it's not going to come back on, but for now it's off. The traction control thing I guess is from the battery being unplugged. when i drove it the tcs off light stopped flashing. once I parked it and cranked it again the traction control icon went off. so the moral of this story is to first try cleaning the EGR when it sends a CEL. If you must replace it buy an OEM EGR. Do not short cut or buy a cheap one.

The RF window is not working now I assume that is also from being unplugged because I know RX350 do the same thing. does anyone know how to fix this?