frenchstan
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Hi
I've been looking through various posts with all of the power loss issues and although I have a similar fault I would be grateful of any input.
I bought my 2001 2.0 JTD Combinato in February and initially it seemed really nice with plenty of power, although it did seem to smoke a bit under load. It also developed very quickly a loss of power (almost like limp home mode) when cruising at 70-80ish which seemed like no turbo and could only be cured by turning the ignition off and back on. This would cure the 'fault' for a while (although sometimes it reoccured almost instantly). There was also a loud whistling noise from behind the bulkhead. There was no engine management light on either.
After living with this for a while I investigated and found that the intercooled was damaged and leaked and the hose between MAF sensor and turbo was disconnected! Tried an epoxy repair (doh!) and connected the MAF to turbo pipe back and took it for a drive and after a few miles got a big black cloud of smoke and the management light came on and stayed on. After that it was back to a bit of black smoke under acceleration.
So I bought a new intercooler and fitted it and now have no black smoke and no power (light still on). So I took it to FIAT dealer who found 6 errors recorded,reset the computer. I now have no smoke, no light but no power.
The power thing is odd though as mostly it feels like no turbo and then sometimes (normally 2nd gear) it all feels back to normal until you change gear again and no power.
By the way the errors read were - Boost pressure sensor, overboost valve, EGR, MAF sensor, accelerator sensor and glowplug relay(?!?). So I'm sure these are not all relevant to the problem.
If anyone has got any ideas I'd appreciate it as although I really like the Scudo I'm starting to get a bit peeved with the power issue.
Cheers,
Martin.
I've been looking through various posts with all of the power loss issues and although I have a similar fault I would be grateful of any input.
I bought my 2001 2.0 JTD Combinato in February and initially it seemed really nice with plenty of power, although it did seem to smoke a bit under load. It also developed very quickly a loss of power (almost like limp home mode) when cruising at 70-80ish which seemed like no turbo and could only be cured by turning the ignition off and back on. This would cure the 'fault' for a while (although sometimes it reoccured almost instantly). There was also a loud whistling noise from behind the bulkhead. There was no engine management light on either.
After living with this for a while I investigated and found that the intercooled was damaged and leaked and the hose between MAF sensor and turbo was disconnected! Tried an epoxy repair (doh!) and connected the MAF to turbo pipe back and took it for a drive and after a few miles got a big black cloud of smoke and the management light came on and stayed on. After that it was back to a bit of black smoke under acceleration.
So I bought a new intercooler and fitted it and now have no black smoke and no power (light still on). So I took it to FIAT dealer who found 6 errors recorded,reset the computer. I now have no smoke, no light but no power.
The power thing is odd though as mostly it feels like no turbo and then sometimes (normally 2nd gear) it all feels back to normal until you change gear again and no power.
By the way the errors read were - Boost pressure sensor, overboost valve, EGR, MAF sensor, accelerator sensor and glowplug relay(?!?). So I'm sure these are not all relevant to the problem.
If anyone has got any ideas I'd appreciate it as although I really like the Scudo I'm starting to get a bit peeved with the power issue.
Cheers,
Martin.