Rear EGR pipe

[leakywindows]

Hi all, my 2018 kombi is booked in next week to have a cracked rear EGR pipe replaced, am I right in thinking that VW updated the pipe and made it stronger? I’ve seen genuine ones costing about £30 and £160, want to make sure the mechanic puts the right one on, as the labour is the expensive bit, thanks in advance.

 

[moomin-j]

Hi all, my 2018 kombi is booked in next week to have a cracked rear EGR pipe replaced, am I right in thinking that VW updated the pipe and made it stronger? I’ve seen genuine ones costing about £30 and £160, want to make sure the mechanic puts the right one on, as the labour is the expensive bit, thanks in advance.

@leakywindows

I would have thought that by now all the OEM ones that are available are the "updated" version, like:



For sale here:

For Sale - T6 EGR pipes front and back

Posted for £100 for both. .

www.t6forum.com

Old version on left:

 

[leakywindows]

This is brilliant, cheers all.

 

[Murdoch]

This is a VERY common failure in the T6

 

[Dellmassive]

OEM pipes are all the updated ones,

cheaper options may be old version stock or clones?

 

[T6jim]

Hi all, my 2018 kombi is booked in next week to have a cracked rear EGR pipe replaced, am I right in thinking that VW updated the pipe and made it stronger? I’ve seen genuine ones costing about £30 and £160, want to make sure the mechanic puts the right one on, as the labour is the expensive bit, thanks in advance.

Hi,
I’ve just started to loose coolant & can smell chemical inside the cab what’s the best way of getting this all checked.
Thanks
Jim.

 

[david173]

Hi,
I’ve just started to loose coolant & can smell chemical inside the cab what’s the best way of getting this all checked.
Thanks
Jim.

have a look inside the bonnet with an inspection lamp you can see the rear pipe right at the back of the engine, I could see the black soot out of a split in mine

 

[T6jim]

have a look inside the bonnet with an inspection lamp you can see the rear pipe right at the back of the engine, I could see the black soot out of a split in mine

Thanks I will check. Hopefully get it resolved soon.

 

[T6jim]

have a look inside the bonnet with an inspection lamp you can see the rear pipe right at the back of the engine, I could see the black soot out of a split in mine

Yep that’s the problem once I started the engine same smell and carefully put my hand round the pipe could feel air rushing through.
Thanks for you help.

 

[T6jim]

Yep that’s the problem once I started the engine same smell and carefully put my hand round the pipe could feel air rushing through.
Thanks

 

[david173]

Yep that’s the problem once I started the engine same smell and carefully put my hand round the pipe could feel air rushing through.
Thanks for you help.

When mine had gone I could feel the air too so my guess would be that pipe is split. Also was alot worse on a regen for some reason

 

[T6jim]

When mine had gone I could feel the air too so my guess would be that pipe is split. Also was alot worse on a regen for some reason

Do you know how much it cost so I know the garage won’t have my pants pulled down.
Cheers

 

[david173]

Parts were about 120 ex vat and an hour labour
My bill was 250 inc VAT

 

[T6jim]

Appreciate your help.
Hopefully solve my coolant level problem I’m not a mechanic but hopefully the cracked pipe is causing the issue.
Thanks again

 

[DXX]

Appreciate your help.
Hopefully solve my coolant level problem I’m not a mechanic but hopefully the cracked pipe is causing the issue.
Thanks again

The cracked EGR pipe won’t be connected to the coolant loss.
There’s plenty of content on the Forum regarding coolant loss, have a Search with ‘coolant’