V60 turbo issue (or is it?)
Discussion
We have a high mileage 2013 V60 D4 R-Design (170k miles) good service history.
It has an intermittent turbo issue where it will not boost at all for anywhere between 30 seconds and probably a few minutes, then the turbo kicks back in as if nothing happened.
This happens almost exclusively at higher speeds on long runs, but has started to happen occasionally at lower speeds (but very rarely).
When it last had a service, the garage plugged it in and said it had various codes relating to the turbo and expected it needed a new turbo.. they cleared the codes and it still occurred. My issue is, surely if the turbo is the culprit, it would either be working or not? There are no weird noises from it. It either kicks in, or doesn't.
We are considering cutting our losses as the car isn't worth putting £1000+ for the turbo and it also has some major steering problems under load (that's another story though). But before I get shot of it, just wanted to see if this sounds like anything common/obvious? The car is probably worth about £2k as it has some laquer peel a few scratches.
(The only 'symptom' I've especially noticed is that the turbo whistles slightly more than I'd expect, but that may just be because I'm looking for faults. I've had a turbo fail before and that sounded awful. May be worth noting that since we have had the car, the fuel consumption has been crap too, we average around 33mpg in just regular driving, the engine always gets up to temp too. Seems very low for a D4 manual.)
Cheers
It has an intermittent turbo issue where it will not boost at all for anywhere between 30 seconds and probably a few minutes, then the turbo kicks back in as if nothing happened.
This happens almost exclusively at higher speeds on long runs, but has started to happen occasionally at lower speeds (but very rarely).
When it last had a service, the garage plugged it in and said it had various codes relating to the turbo and expected it needed a new turbo.. they cleared the codes and it still occurred. My issue is, surely if the turbo is the culprit, it would either be working or not? There are no weird noises from it. It either kicks in, or doesn't.
We are considering cutting our losses as the car isn't worth putting £1000+ for the turbo and it also has some major steering problems under load (that's another story though). But before I get shot of it, just wanted to see if this sounds like anything common/obvious? The car is probably worth about £2k as it has some laquer peel a few scratches.
(The only 'symptom' I've especially noticed is that the turbo whistles slightly more than I'd expect, but that may just be because I'm looking for faults. I've had a turbo fail before and that sounded awful. May be worth noting that since we have had the car, the fuel consumption has been crap too, we average around 33mpg in just regular driving, the engine always gets up to temp too. Seems very low for a D4 manual.)
Cheers
Edited by gman88667733 on Sunday 16th April 21:56
Pork Sausage said:
Air intake hose possible culprit.
Worth checking when the fuel filter was last changed also as had similar issues on a 2.4 d5 which resolved when it had a new fuel filter.
The main intake hose?Worth checking when the fuel filter was last changed also as had similar issues on a 2.4 d5 which resolved when it had a new fuel filter.
Will do, we definitely haven't done it in the 2 years we have had it. Will go through the history tomorrow!
Thank you for that!
On the D5, there is a join in the intake hose nearest to the steering wheel at the top of the engine which goes towards the turbo. Our Jubilee clip wasn’t quite gripping and the pipe could clearly move when grabbed, which was allowing air in. The turbo used to proper whistle but all is now well.
Hopefully similar issue which can be easily resolved
Hopefully similar issue which can be easily resolved
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