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Possible Turbo Trouble?

GoneShootin · 2009-05-11 13:30:51

Strange one this. At seemingly random times whenever doing 120kph+ the engine warning light will come on. This has the effect of disabling the turbo. If I pull in, restart the enginer, the warning light turns off and turbo comes back on. I've had it in at the garage and they say that there's no log of an error in the ems.…

11-05-2009 1:30pm

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GoneShootin

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Strange one this. At seemingly random times whenever doing 120kph+ the engine warning light will come on. This has the effect of disabling the turbo. If I pull in, restart the enginer, the warning light turns off and turbo comes back on.

I've had it in at the garage and they say that there's no log of an error in the ems.

Driving 05 Astra 1.7 CDTI

Any ideas?

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#2 11-05-2009 1:38pm

peasant

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As there is no road in Ireland where you can legally exceed 120 km/h I would deem that you don't actually have a problem :D:D

*off to feed the high horse*

seriously ...I don't think that it is a turbo problem, some electronic gremlin is much more likely

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#3 11-05-2009 1:45pm

MaxFlower

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The vacuum hose connectors (small black tube connectors) cause a similar effect to the one you are describing but this was in a vectra and at a range of speeds.

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