How To: EGR Removal and Cleaning for Rough Idle Fix

A friend of mine who is a mechanic told me it could be the coolant sensor......but I dont know if that would explain the crazy bouncing idle. He said it could be the coolant sensor for when I start it....but I think the EGR cleaning will help.

Doing that today!


It always wants to choke or stall when I'm stopped at a light or stop sign or wherever. My gas mileage is the worse its ever been.
 
ya that sounds like a egr and i hope cleaning it will halp you for a long time as it only helped me for 1000 miles or so
gsmooth said:
A friend of mine who is a mechanic told me it could be the coolant sensor......but I dont know if that would explain the crazy bouncing idle. He said it could be the coolant sensor for when I start it....but I think the EGR cleaning will help.

Doing that today!


It always wants to choke or stall when I'm stopped at a light or stop sign or wherever. My gas mileage is the worse its ever been.
 
RUNS LIKE NEW!!!!!!!!!

THANKS VEGA


sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet post


CEL is still on but I'm guessing after a reset and a few km's it'll disappear...if not.......plan B....hook it up to a computer



=D
 
my egr started giving me problems again after about 6k miles so i just bought a new one for $115 shipped with gasket included from Malloy Mazda
 
I did the same last year after mine started to crap out again after 1000 miles after i cleaned it. And i have no problems since.
neit_jnf said:
my egr started giving me problems again after about 6k miles so i just bought a new one for $115 shipped with gasket included from Malloy Mazda
 
Im not sure if this was asked already but if i could be given a mulligan i would appriciate it, has anyone had issues with restarting the car after stalling, my car seems to not want to start right after is stalls out, it takes about 5 min
 
definitely not worth cleaning, I did it once and was ok temporarily for about a week. I bought a new valve from OnlineMazdaParts, and installed myself no problems since 8 months later.
 
The EGR valve have warranty for 7 years now. Mazda redesign the valve. The new one is better. Call your dealer for more information. So if your car is a 2001 or more, the Valve will be free to change it.
 
or....just take the stupid ass thing out and put a plate over the hole. Benifits you say?

1. no more exhaust going back into your intake
2. better performance
3. no soot all over in your intake
4. car wont run like s*** when the egr fails

we can all thank GM for this lovely idea.

"I know, lets take some exhaust and put it back into the intake to burn it again, so it will make the exhaust coming out the tail pipe slightly cleaner, so we can meet the governments emmisions regulations. Sure there is little to no oxygen content in the exhaust, so it will lower the amount of oxygen in the cylinders so it will run richer, which makes more soot, that goes back in to the intake, which makes more soot, which goes back into the intake........."

fabulous idea.
 
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i cleaned mine about 15k miles ago, runs great! i also cleaned the IAC as well and i think that was a problem as well!
 
rough idle

My '03 ES (60,000 miles) was have a idling problem and it turned out to be a leak in the upper intake gasket. It helped, but I still have a small idling issue, seems to be the egr. I'm going to clean it tomorrow.
 
ur

I got a replacement 'revised' egr in my car and it still runs like s***. Sometimes, the RPMs drop to a point where the car turns off..
 

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