Just driven 500 miles with Restricted Performance warning sign - Wales to Scotland with little problems but frustrating on M74 hills! Booked in this Thursday for inspection- believe AA fitted blank plate on hose end - is this normal?

How does the AA man know it's the egr? Now at the point when I learn something new something old is lost out the other side !
Now retired so it doesn't matter anymore.
Freelander now gone.

You have an Sd4, they can't have a full egr blanking plate fitted, they need to have a small hole to allow some gasses to pass through otherwise you'll get restricted performance. This is the one for the Sd4:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111585366725?mk...media=COPY

Did AA diagnose faulty egr and fitted blanking plate to get you going?

Bet he's fitted this one:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111585376243?mk...media=COPY

There is likely to be an underlying fault if you had a breakdown in the first place but I'd check which blanking plate had been fitted first of all. Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)

Had my Egr valve replaced with new one and had blanking plate removed. Engine now seems to be permanently “hunting” for correct gear/revs and defo seems to have reduced power! Just had gearbox oil fully changed and software updates added to engine but still have hunting revs/gears! Any suggestions guys???

HI, Next job is to look at the Turbocharger Actuator in its box for stripped gears, then is the arm that pushes the turbo vanes seized with carbon?. You need to get it up in the air at the front, and take the offside wheel off and undershield and turbo pipe to get at it easily. While you are under the car have a look at the rubber turbo hoses for splits. When the EGr valve and turbo actuator give trouble, the overboost blows the rubber hoses, been their, fixed em!

Brilliant VMT will touch base with LR “specialist” cheers

Just had EGR valve replaced

Thats a result then. Hope it is all OK now. Nice to know when something works out.

CertaCito

Do you have any error codes logged in the OBD system?

If so, search on this site using the OBD Error Code - the turbo vane actuator does clog up and has a restricted movement (and performance).

My restricted performance problem was cleared by dealer carrying out some kind of exercise and test procedure.

https://www.freel2.com/forum/topic38689.html?highlight=turbo FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 76k+ miles) (MY2015)