It is important to keep an eye for some symptoms that indicate issues with your car's turbo, including a reduction in power, excessive smoke coming out of the exhaust system, whining engine sound, and check engine light illuminating. Most problems with the car's turbo come from other causes like lack of engine lubrication and strange objects
Thing is I bought my first ever Ford Fiesta 1.4TDCI 2004 reg a couple of months ago and I seem to be having problems with it! When i bought the car it had a problem with lack of power! I thought itl be an easy fix so I (first checked the Turbo if it had play which it slightly did but not enough to cause such a lack of power) put some redex in
Poor acceleration. One of the most significant symptoms of a failing turbo you should notice is lack of overall power. The car may not accelerate quickly or produce the usual amount of power while on the road. When you are driving a car with a failing turbo, you may notice that your car is slow to respond and does not reach its optimum speeds
Common Symptoms of a Failed Turbocharger: Play in the impeller shaft. Oil leaking into the Inlet. White Smoke. Noisy Bearing / Whining Sound On Throttle. Loss Of Power & No Kick-Down.
However - I know that on Focus1.6tdci there has been a lot about turbo failure and then when turbo replaced it fails again. As the failure is caused by lack of oil to turbo bearings. And the cause of that is the oil feed pipe to turbo being gunged up.
8DXtOot. When we replaced some actuators on the missus 20V 1.8T engine a while back, the symptoms were partly as you described, but not quite so scary: HUGE lump of initial boost, slight compressor-surge
Symptoms of a Failing Wastegate. Stress caused by an aging turbocharger or by a motorist increasing boost pressure from the turbocharger can overwhelm the spring that opens the wastegate at a specified pressure. In these case, the wastegate will flutter because the spring cannot keep the gate fully shut. The boost will oscillate and the engine
Ford Models. Ford Fusion Club. 1.4 tdci Power loss, EAC Fail. So, unusually for these forums, I'm going to tell you all about the symptoms, the things I tried AND the final solution to this problem. It's a 2005, with about 130,000 miles on it. It gets no servicing other than regular oil and filter changes (oh, and a cambelt).
Sat 7 Jul 2012 18:39. ford focus tdci - turbo - keykey. just been reading on here about turbo problems on 1.6 tdci ,my son has on one of these and had two turbos go, one only done 25 miles and disintegrated, was fitted by a reputable garage, but they didnt want to know, so i did some research on the subject and found that when you disconnect
Hi Everyone. I drive an 05 Focus 1.6 LX TDCi with 82K on the clock. I was coming home round the M25 when the car lost its accelerating power, barely hitting 60mph. A mobile mechanic diagnosed a faulty injector which he then replaced. But the car is still suffering from poor acceleration & str
ford focus tdci turbo failure symptoms