I was in a lot of heavy traffic yesterday with a full load and the performance was really poor, like the turbo wasn’t working. Very similar to when my intercooler hose split a few years ago but there was no whistling sound. Went for a drive this morning and It felt fine, maybe a touch down on power but I could have imagined that.

I just inspected all the flexible intercooler pipes and they look ok, though there was some oil round the bottom of the lower right side hose from the intercooler - cleaned it up and no spilts.

Anything else this could be? I checked the fault codes and nothing reported.

My best guess now is a sticking turbo actuator or sticking vanes, seems fine now. Anyone had that before?

Sticky turbo actuator is fairly common. Give it a spot of oil and move it bank and forward several time to check. Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

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Thehorse wrote:

My best guess now is a sticking turbo actuator or sticking vanes, seems fine now. Anyone had that before?

Thehorse wrote:

Anything else this could be? I checked the fault codes and nothing reported.

Thehorse wrote:

Thehorse wrote:

My best guess now is a sticking turbo actuator or sticking vanes, seems fine now. Anyone had that before?

Thanks, I did try giving the actuator a little wiggle, there was some play in the linkages but I’m not sure it moved, didn’t want to force anything, does it usually require much force to move it?

There's a thermostat in the filter, which is designed to maintain the fuel temperature to a minimum of 10°C. However some aftermarket filters don't return fuel to the tank at higher temperatures, which means less cool fuel from the tank is drawn in. As the less dense warmed fuel is returned to the injection, it can cause power loss. 2009 Rimini Red SE TD4. Soon to be sold.
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Bobupndown wrote:

Sticky turbo actuator is fairly common. Give it a spot of oil and move it bank and forward several time to check.

Here ya go Deano64. This is so well documented on the forum, a simple search would have brought it up.

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Nodge68 wrote:

There's a thermostat in the filter, which is designed to maintain the fuel temperature to a minimum of 10°C. However some aftermarket filters don't return fuel to the tank at higher temperatures, which means less cool fuel from the tank is drawn in. As the less dense warmed fuel is returned to the injection, it can cause power loss.

Badger51 wrote:

Here ya go Deano64. This is so well documented on the forum, a simple search would have brought it up.

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So things took a turn for the worse this week.

After running fine for a few days it broke down on the way to catch a ferry, luckily I managed to limp home and swap cars and just caught it.

Suddenly lost power going up a hill, clouds of black smoke and a slight strange sound from under the bonnet. Just got back and checked under the bonnet. Intercooler hoses look ok. A bit of oil round the intake hose after the air filter leading to the turbo intake - I did take this off last week and it wasn’t on quite right but have reset this now and it looks ok, but still smoking down on power.

I looked at the turbo actuator and it seemed to be moving ok, mainly moves on the over run - made a video, does this look right?

https://youtube.com/shorts/-g8z9g1GDhE?feature=share

Any comments welcome.

PS - what’s the approx cost for a new recon turbo fitted?