Iveco Daily EGR delete
Power drops away on a loaded climb, the engine light comes on, and the code reader says P0401 again, six months after the last clean. On the Daily that is the 2.3's EGR valve. Mobile software delete at your depot, yard or site, £220.
Call 0161 694 7331 with the reg and the codes and we will confirm the fix.
For off-road and track use only.
How the EGR fails on an Iveco Daily
The valve sticks first, and it sticks on the 2.3. The F1A four-cylinder, whether badged HPI, HPT or Multijet, recirculates a lot of exhaust gas at the low loads a Daily sees around town, and the soot settles on the valve until it stops seating. The owner notices a flat spot pulling away loaded, then a rougher idle, then the engine management light with P0400, P0401 or P0404 stored. Left alone, the ECU sees a flow figure it cannot reconcile and drops the van into limp mode, usually on a hill with a full load on. A clean brings it back for a while. It goes again with age and mileage, because the work has not changed.
The cooler goes on the Multijet II and the 3.0. On the 2014-onward 2.3 Multijet II and on the F1C 3.0, the cooler fails as well as the valve. Coolant drops with no leak to find, there is white or grey smoke on a cold start, and P0401 or P0402 sits alongside. On a chassis cab that has been topping up for months, that is coolant going through the cylinders.
Daily engines covered
Daily 2.3 HPI and HPT: F1A, 2002 to 2014
The original common-rail 2.3 in the panel van, chassis cab and Luton. Valve sticking is the fault we see on this one. Confirmed coverage.
Daily 2.3 Multijet: F1A Multijet II, 2014 onward
The Euro 5 and Euro 6 version of the same block. Valve sticking as before, with cooler faults added on the Multijet II. Confirmed coverage. The same F1A sits in the Fiat Ducato and fails the same way there.
Daily 3.0: F1C, 2006 onward
The 3.0 in the heavier vans and chassis cabs. Cooler and valve faults both reported, and the cooler failure is the one that costs coolant. Confirmed coverage.
Other Iveco vans and chassis cabs are on the Iveco EGR delete hub. Anything not listed, call 0161 694 7331 and we will confirm from the reg.
What the delete does to that fault
The ECU stops commanding the valve. A valve stuck half open with carbon cannot trip limp mode when nothing is asking it to move, and the flow comparison that stores P0401 is no longer run. The EGR circuit is closed in software, so exhaust gas stops passing through the cooler and the route by which a cracked cooler feeds coolant into the intake is shut. The valve, the cooler and the pipework stay in place. Codes are cleared on the day and the change is permanent; it does not wear off with mileage the way a clean does.
Is it definitely the EGR?
Three things to check or tell us on the phone. The exact codes from a reader, because P04xx codes point at the EGR and other codes point elsewhere. Whether the coolant is dropping with no visible leak. The colour of the smoke and when it appears: white or grey on a cold start is coolant, black under load is something else. If coolant has been entering the engine for months, the delete stops further ingress but does not undo damage already done, and we will say so on the day rather than remap a van that needs something else first. If the DPF light is on as well, both are handled in the same visit for £445.
Questions Daily owners ask
Is it definitely the EGR, or could it be something else on a Daily?
My Daily has been losing coolant. Will the delete stop it?
Does the delete cover the EGR cooler on the Daily as well as the valve?
Will the fault codes come back on the Daily after the delete?
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Call 0161 694 7331 with your Daily's engine and the fault codes you have, and we will confirm the fix and a time.
£220, we come to you, no call-out charge, no strip-down, and the van stays on the yard. Same-day and next-day slots are common within 40 miles of Eccles.
For off-road and track use only.