Surely Not Another Turbo?
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:50 pm
No doubt Andy and Ray will say "I told you so!", but Mrs LGC's car has had the SERVICE/CHECK INJECTION lights come on at 71,685 miles.
The car, as some of you may recall, had a new turbo, intercooler, turbo oil feed pipes and EGR valve fitted at 36,000 miles, just before the turbo totally failed. I told Mrs LGC to get rid of the car when the warranty ran out just after the third service but she said she wanted to keep it until we went to live in France
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She complained of a certain amount of hesitation and I drove the car to Norfolk and back last weekend, a round trip of 650 miles. The car averaged 50mpg though I did notice the odd puff of smoke and some further hesitation.
We'll check out the fault codes tomorrow. Meanwhile any guesses as to what it's going to be?
At least the car meets all the Yellow OTS scheme criteria and has been run on AMSOIL Euro Spec since the turbo change with 9,000 mile oil change intervals.
The car, as some of you may recall, had a new turbo, intercooler, turbo oil feed pipes and EGR valve fitted at 36,000 miles, just before the turbo totally failed. I told Mrs LGC to get rid of the car when the warranty ran out just after the third service but she said she wanted to keep it until we went to live in France

She complained of a certain amount of hesitation and I drove the car to Norfolk and back last weekend, a round trip of 650 miles. The car averaged 50mpg though I did notice the odd puff of smoke and some further hesitation.
We'll check out the fault codes tomorrow. Meanwhile any guesses as to what it's going to be?
At least the car meets all the Yellow OTS scheme criteria and has been run on AMSOIL Euro Spec since the turbo change with 9,000 mile oil change intervals.