Technical Help/thoughts

[bobdragon12]

Hi

My parents are currently in south of France in our 2.8tdi hymer (2000) on the way down they stopped over night because of the snow . In the morning the van started fine but my dad tried to pull off with the engine still cold and he stalled it and then It would not restart . The RAC recovered it to a garage and they diagnosed a fuel filter and changed it . The garage never took it for a run before handing it back to my parents and they went on there way but soon realised the van is now massively down on power . Van starts perfectly and seems to run ok but know power and was perfect before this issue . Any thoughts as to the issue ,would the wrong filter cause this ?

 

[corcai]

Hi

My parents are currently in south of France in our 2.8tdi hymer (2000) on the way down they stopped over night because of the snow . In the morning the van started fine but my dad tried to pull off with the engine still cold and he stalled it and then It would not restart . The RAC recovered it to a garage and they diagnosed a fuel filter and changed it . The garage never took it for a run before handing it back to my parents and they went on there way but soon realised the van is now massively down on power . Van starts perfectly and seems to run ok but know power and was perfect before this issue . Any thoughts as to the issue ,would the wrong filter cause this ?

Is it smoking? Tons of things it could be if its cold enough diesel could be gelling, could be split turbo hose, boost leak, small hose to the lda on the pump.

 

[bobdragon12]

No smoke , I wondered whether the turbo hoses had been disturbed when they removed the air filter to get to the diesel filter