The amount of kms driven without cel was under 6km, i did pull the charcoal canister off and it was fine just alot of road filth, the vent valve attached to it you can blow through unrestricted but i can't find anything online to do with how it should be working, the purge valve i couldn't blow through at all so I'm assuming its working, but thats all back in and seems to be functional, now the steel egr line/tube is/was kinked at the intake manifold and it looks like the orange o ring is popped up through, so maybe when this car had been worked on by p.o.'s mechanic they hadn't repaired everything properly? Yes it's been frustrating, it's no 3 cylinder metro, but hey i really enjoy this car, and i refuse to give up even if it gets down to near impossible fixes. No worries av_guy about criticism, because sometimes that's what people need.