Small 3 cyl turbo engines

[A500leroy]

Anyone found the way of driving them yet?

The turbo kicks in really low, theres a lag and then a surge of speed at low speeds so you have to back off and its like hitting the anchors.

Very hard to drive smoothly in traffic, Whats the secret?

[PositronicRay]

Ours is okay.

[Maxdecel]

Never experienced what you describe in the two I've owned.

[Olivera]

Something is broken.

[PositronicRay]

Olivera said:

Something is broken.

Dodgy map?

[E-bmw]

A500leroy said:

The turbo kicks in really low, theres a lag

If the turbo kicks in "really low" how can there be a lag?

[Wacky Racer]

No issues at all with our 3 cylinder 1.2 Turbo Mokka, it's a great little engine with plenty of power, economical too.

[GreenV8S]

A500leroy said:

Whats the secret?

I've driven a very highly boosted small engine that had those characteristics of slow to get on boost and then producing too much, very hard to keep it in a usable power band when driving at less than ten tenths. You shouldn't see problems like that with a standard production engine. If you are, I would wonder whether there was a problem with the boost control system causing it to produce too much boost - maybe a stuck wastegate, or something like that.

[A500leroy]

GreenV8S said:

I've driven a very highly boosted small engine that had those characteristics of slow to get on boost and then producing too much, very hard to keep it in a usable power band when driving at less than ten tenths. You shouldn't see problems like that with a standard production engine. If you are, I would wonder whether there was a problem with the boost control system causing it to produce too much boost - maybe a stuck wastegate, or something like that.

something to investigate. Thankyou.