I'm in a flap

[rstoughy]

Genuine question here,

Now i have spent the morning going through all the flap releated posts on here and would like to know if its ok to run without it?

last night i noticed the car was a little quiet when giving it some hoof so once home got the missus to jump in and give it a good old rev up to 5K.

No flap operation seen with sport on or off.

Now the mechanic that done my Insp II the other week commented that there was a fault code there but it was operating fine at the time of the service. He also said (as most do) if it stops working again just whip it off.

So if i remove it will the engine blow it's headgasket into 1000's of bits, spit the crankshaft out through the watter pump and smash the SMG box to bits or...... will it just be fine as long as i dont drive through any swollen rivers?

opinions please