Car lost its roar

Taximan2011 · May 23, 2014

Hi took car into garage yesterday to have aircon fixed, they changed condenser and drier.

When you used to drive the car before when you accelerated it would roar even though onky a 3.o td6 2003. and when you powered off you would hear an "achew" noise like a little sneeze from the turbo.

Now when you drive it as you accelerate the turbo whines whilst power on, as you power off no "achew" noise anymore, and the car seems rather flat on power..

ANY suggestions from you experts ??????????

2.0_hippo · May 23, 2014

Turbo inter cooler hose loose or split ??

robhew86 · May 23, 2014

Taximan2011 said:
Hi took car into garage yesterday to have aircon fixed, they changed condenser and drier.

When you used to drive the car before when you accelerated it would roar even though onky a 3.o td6 2003. and when you powered off you would hear an "achew" noise like a little sneeze from the turbo.

Now when you drive it as you accelerate the turbo whines whilst power on, as you power off no "achew" noise anymore, and the car seems rather flat on power..

ANY suggestions from you experts ??????????

The condenser doesn't involve touching any intercooler hoses, not sure whether the the dryer does though. I would check intercooler hoses, I would hazard a guess that one of them is loose.

robhew86 · May 23, 2014

2.0_hippo said:
Turbo inter cooler hose loose or split ??

Taximan2011 · May 23, 2014

that sounds promising, cheaper than the turbo
:clap2:

2.0_hippo · May 23, 2014

Check your hoses

robhew86 · May 23, 2014

If the turbo 'whines' too much anyway, I hate to say but I would suspect it could be on its last legs. Have you had the car long? Has the crankcase breather filter been changed?

2.0_hippo · May 23, 2014

robhew86 said:

Might not have any thing to do with the condenser but it could just be a coincidence something has failed or been disturbed in the process

2.0_hippo · May 23, 2014

robhew86 said:
If the turbo 'whines' too much anyway, I hate to say but I would suspect it could be on its last legs. Have you had the car long? Has the crankcase breather filter been changed?

+1

You deffo should have the bmw upgraded cyclone type upgraded filter fitted
The main reason the turbos fail !

Taximan2011 · May 23, 2014

the car has been fine up until the aircon job. no white smoke or anything

will look into the filter though

2.0_hippo · May 23, 2014

Check my thread for the crankcase filter upgrade procedure

You would usually get black smoke with a blocked crankcase filter
With the engine running slowly and carefully release the oil level dipstick, if oil wants to spurt out then your filter is blocked !

Taximan2011 · May 23, 2014

don't get any form of smoke

Taximan2011 · May 23, 2014

taking car back to garage tomorrow, will get them to check the intercooler hoses

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