I was having a nose around under the bonnet earlier and found a loose pipe (photos attached). I have no idea what it is or where it goes, it's got a braded cover and is situated near the turbo pipework. Can anybody help identifying this please? The car is running completely normally by the way.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

I forgot to say, it obviously looks like it's been deliberately blanked off by someone other than Audi but what is it and what purpose would blanking it off serve? I'm a little concerned I may be causing damage to the engine in the long term running it like this thanks to someone's half assed repair/mod.

After a lot of research tonight I'm thinking someone in the past has deleted the EGR valve, anyone able to confirm this may be the case?

That sounds plausible. What is the other end of the hose connected to?

I didn't have time to strip things down and check yesterday as I'm working nights for a couple of shifts now. Now I know what I'm looking for though I should be able to tell if the EGR valve is missing a pipe without too much faffing about.

I think we can definitely say my EGR valve has been deleted, and it's so obvious now that it's funny. I've been intending for quite a while to try to find a missing fixing trim for my engine cover as shown below.

 

 

However it now turns out that what I was missing was an EGR valve!

 

 

Taxi for Dave please!

Thanks for the confirmation.

Glad you got to the bottom of it 🙂