i am having some difficulty in finding a fault with my 96 2.6 cdx, yesterday it was running fine, maybe a bit heavy on the fuel, averaging about 300 miles to £70 petrol, as i went to overtake another vehicle i selected sport mode, and floored it, it revved up and was about to down shift when all of a sudden the engine management light came on and the car shuddered to a hault, like a rev limiter cutting in but at 2500 rpm. the light went of again but the car would not pull past this rev 2500, and had a top speed of 40mph, even in nutral the engine would not rev past this but the management light never re appeared maybe only on the odd occaision. the display on the dash did not indicate any problem and did not indicate safe mode. i finally called out the AA and the guy looked at it and initally thought it was the torque convertir but then realised that it also limited in nutral. he then examined further and thinks that it is the EGR valve stuck full open and over gasing the engine.
i have never heard of this, but he assurred me that this would indeed cause heavy fuel comsumption and a lack of power, have any of you guys had simular and can anyone adivse me on what this could be, was the AA man right do i need a new EGR valve and will i still need to have it plugged in to a dianostic machine?