Originally posted by todras:
They go pretty quickly. It takes just a hint of moisture. I've heard cases of some going every 20k. It has been revised by Ford. I think the new ones are plastic.



yes this is the case as I recall

you are correct, if you manually applied vacumm to the egr and it died at idle then it is the DPFE sensor and it will fix the problem, I know as it happened to my car also

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