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HI All

Today i noticed i had lost a lot of power and when i put my foot doown nothing really happens except the turbo noise is really loud like a airhose type noise.

Is this the turbo gone or a pipe come off? where is the turbo on these things?

Had that happen to me once, going up a large hill on the A30. Only just made it to the top. Turned out the inter cooler pipe had just worked its way off. Have you opened the bonnet ?

I have but was late to work and it was raining so not had a real chance. Whats the things to chek for with these

The inter cooler pipes are pretty obvious. Look under the bonnet with it running and rev it to see where the whistle is coming from?

where is the turbo and any Vac piped to look at

The Turbo is round the back of the engine, the Vac system is mostly mounted to the bulkhead to the right of the engine

Ok lookked at the intercooler pipes and cant see any thing. What vacuum pipes do i need to check

So Last night ended like this



No power tons of smoke and sounded like a lorry, however i have found the problem



Bottom intercooler pipe had split

Ahh well all well that end's well at least you've found the problem & it's a cheep 'ish' fix
We like them round ere DDD.

Yeah gonna call local robbery and day see how much but I guess will be scrap yard visit on Saturday

There's plenty in the local scrapers, that's the joy of these car's

So my local stealer wants £70 for the pipe

Car repaired (I Hope!) but what a pain. Visited 3 yards all of them had the right car but wrong engine or the pipes I needed had gone! So a bit of searching and a lot of bonnet lifting :') we found some candidate parts from a newer car and some driveway manufacturing and we have an 'uprated' part. Feels like I have gained power and MPG!

Yeah a common issue on these. Mine split caning it down a dual carriageway 10 miles away from home. Was still driveable but verrry smoky and very slow.

Puggy had his go on our car meet in hilly Wales!

That would explain all the missing pipes in yards!