ApriliaNut
Veteran Member
So my 06 Jetta will not pass smog.
Check engine light was on with a P0672 "Cylinder #2 glow plug circuit open"
Went to my friend who runs the smog shop and b4 he would charge me he said let's get rid of the check engine light first. So he hooked up his code reader and turned off the CEL.
Then he found that the "EGR monitor was not running", and the reader said there were no pending codes. He suggested that I go to a deserted road and accelerate hard from 20mph to 40mph in 2nd and let it slow back down. Do that three times ro so. Then he said accelerate hard from 40mph to 60mph, let it slow down and then pull over to the side of the road and let it idle a couple of minutes and bring it back. So I did that and the same thing showed up on his reader.
I then took it to a specific TDI Guru, who b4 he opened his shop, worked for VW Palm Springs for 15 years and has numerous VW honors framed on the wall. He hooked it up to the Ross Tech gizmo and said it's working but not to spec as its off by about 80 grams per second or whatnot. Aaron then said he'd had decent luck in cases such as this by driving a steady state of 60-65 mph on cruise control for around 25 minutes so there is relatively no load and the computer can re calibrate to spec.
Well I did do that and it still is giving the same information.
If I have to delve into the EGR system he said it'd be anywhere from $1100-1500.. YIKES...I'm on a fixed income and can ill afford that expense!!!
Does anybody have any ideas???
The car is probably only worth $2-2.5k as it is although it's running great to me as far as I can tell. No difference from when I originally obtained it in October of 2016 from Spoolin' Jim. !!
Oh...don't know if this is important or not but about two weeks ago battery went totally flat; so I jumped it and put a brand new 5 year warranty one from WallysWorld in.
Thanks
Check engine light was on with a P0672 "Cylinder #2 glow plug circuit open"
Went to my friend who runs the smog shop and b4 he would charge me he said let's get rid of the check engine light first. So he hooked up his code reader and turned off the CEL.
Then he found that the "EGR monitor was not running", and the reader said there were no pending codes. He suggested that I go to a deserted road and accelerate hard from 20mph to 40mph in 2nd and let it slow back down. Do that three times ro so. Then he said accelerate hard from 40mph to 60mph, let it slow down and then pull over to the side of the road and let it idle a couple of minutes and bring it back. So I did that and the same thing showed up on his reader.
I then took it to a specific TDI Guru, who b4 he opened his shop, worked for VW Palm Springs for 15 years and has numerous VW honors framed on the wall. He hooked it up to the Ross Tech gizmo and said it's working but not to spec as its off by about 80 grams per second or whatnot. Aaron then said he'd had decent luck in cases such as this by driving a steady state of 60-65 mph on cruise control for around 25 minutes so there is relatively no load and the computer can re calibrate to spec.
Well I did do that and it still is giving the same information.
If I have to delve into the EGR system he said it'd be anywhere from $1100-1500.. YIKES...I'm on a fixed income and can ill afford that expense!!!
Does anybody have any ideas???
The car is probably only worth $2-2.5k as it is although it's running great to me as far as I can tell. No difference from when I originally obtained it in October of 2016 from Spoolin' Jim. !!
Oh...don't know if this is important or not but about two weeks ago battery went totally flat; so I jumped it and put a brand new 5 year warranty one from WallysWorld in.
Thanks
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