Many thanks, the car now will not drive over 5mph in drive - would this cause it do you know?Hi Angela,
The wire goes to the sensor with all the oil round it on the intercooler to manifold hose. Only the later TD4s seem to have one of these sensors.
You shold be able to fix the wire back together with a small wire connecor.
There does seem to be a fair bit of oil coming out round the sensor, I'd check the seal on it and ask to have the crankcase breather filter (PCV) checked when you get it serviced. A bit of oil in the turbo hoses is normal but you don't want too much.
Hope this helps.
Many many thanks for this, the car is going to a garage tomorrow and they are going to let me know.Hi Angela,
That is the intake air temperature sensor. It should be the work of no more than 15 mins to reattach the wire. I suggest you get it and the associated hose cleaned out as they are very oily.
The plastic box noise is probably the underbelly panel or some other plastic shield out of place - again, short work to put it back where it should be.
The restricted speed, as others have said, is probably 'limp mode' and could be due to many things. A quick scan on a code reader should start you off on the path to recovery.
Thank you so much for this, the PC. Has not been changed, what is the EGR please? I really don't know anything about cars at all :/Hi Angela.
The wire is connected to the turbo boost temperature sensor, reconnect using an inline shrink wrap connector if possible, the sensor can be cleaned with a quick spray of carb cleaner, once it is removed from the hoses, also have the hoses checked and changed if need be, if the intercooler hose is split or leaking it can put the car in limp mode, are you having any black smoke ? to connect the wiring and change the hoses you should not be looking at paying out more than £60 including the hoses and labour.
You could also do with the EGR being looked at just in case it is stuck, when was the last time the EGR, manifold, MAP sensor removed and cleaned ? as your PCV filter been changed in the last 24 months ?
Many many thanks very kind and helpfulHi Angela.
As above the EGR is Exhaust Gas Regulator, and fits to the inlet manifold right side it is an alloy unit, I remove mine twice a year and replace it with a clean one as I have a spares, pic below.
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EGR to the right on this pic.
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manifold which I also change for a cleaned out one every spring.
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This EGr and manifold was taken form a friends car and had never been changed or cleaned out you can see from the photo's how the grudge can build up.
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This follows through to the manifold.
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A clean manifold next to the one that as been allowed to build up with gunk, through lack of maintenance.
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The gink will also block up the MAP sensor on the manifold this not allowing the ECU to have proper reading s from within the manifold.
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The PCV filter fits in front of the air filter pic below
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It seems to me you need a full service on your FL or at least get it checked over by someone who knows what they are doing, Arctic2
Many many thanks very kind and helpful
Angela
Artic2 I must say you do provide a very positive way to explain things with all the pictures now you have me wondering if I should get a new EGR as I tried to clean mine out and there is still plenty of hard grudge in there and I am not sure it is opening up properly to some one who does not know but also helps us older ones as well who do know photos are a great help
thanks again for the pictures
Thanks so much for your answer I was a mechanic when I was young back in the 1960s but never delt in anything but petrol but after having 2td4s I am learning a lot more but the old grey matter does not keep up lol
Thank you