Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
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Called it many bad names!!
Driving home tonight up a fairly steep constant climb I heard a fairly loud WHOOSH, experienced 90% power loss and saw a huge plume of black smoke in the rear view mirror.
Given that I'm supposed to be going away on holiday this weekend to have a new gearbox fitted, I immediately thought the worst (not entirely sure what those thoughts were, but I knew they were not good)
As it was still able to move under it's own steam (just), I managed to crawl it back home and opened the bonnet expecting to see bits missing, but all I found was that the hose on the bottom of the turbo had blown off.
5 minutes later it's all fixed.
Driving home tonight up a fairly steep constant climb I heard a fairly loud WHOOSH, experienced 90% power loss and saw a huge plume of black smoke in the rear view mirror.
Given that I'm supposed to be going away on holiday this weekend to have a new gearbox fitted, I immediately thought the worst (not entirely sure what those thoughts were, but I knew they were not good)
As it was still able to move under it's own steam (just), I managed to crawl it back home and opened the bonnet expecting to see bits missing, but all I found was that the hose on the bottom of the turbo had blown off.
5 minutes later it's all fixed.