Hey guys/girls

So my check engine light came on, plug in the reader and code 1404 came up...

that being said, according to my code book that means "EGR Circuit Range/Performance"

but i have no clue what to do about it?

any help/suggestion would be great

 

Your EGR Pintle is stuck open. Sometimes carbon buildup can force these to stick, you may have to replace it, but you can get lucky and try to remove / clean it.

 

What are the side effects? i will try cleaning it, but i dont have access to a garage right now and its get'n a lil chilly out here

 

If you don't get it fixed, then your car will allow more exhaust fumes into the car than usual

You could start idling rough, having poor acceleration. Plus your emissions will be all sorts of wrong.

 

Well that would explain my idle being a lil ****ty...

Awsome, tx for the really fast response!!

 

No problem, now get that sucker fixed

 

word of advice cleanning the egr is a little of a paine. but a new one should be better so you dont have to worrie on yanking off the one you cleaned and doing it again.

 

well i replaced it on sunday

it would still throwing the codes, deleted them yesterday, still showing up this morning... once i got in my cubicle i realized that im a genius and forgot to plug it in, plugged it in at lunch, all is good!!

Tx everyone, once again

 

Good to hear you got it fixed.