winnie, when you say the long tube is that the one that goes down through the silver copex looking stuff towards the turbo?
winnie, when you say the long tube is that the one that goes down through the silver copex looking stuff towards the turbo?
No not that one I have left that as mine looks ok and looks hard to change is the other pipe that goes from te White vacuum pot to the vacuum pipe on the engine and the small tube Which goes top to bottom of the vacuum pump if you know what I mean there is only 3pipes an it's not the one you said
Hope you understand which ones
Winnie seems to have right idea. Now that it's fixed the turbo is coming in right down low and acceleration is very smooth all the way up. I can't remember it ever being like that. It always seemed to have a flat spot.
I think I might do the same and replace all the pipes, especially as the ones near the engine will be getting quite warm.
Def like I said my pipes were not split but were perished and what a difference the car drives like new I recommend every one to buy some hard rubber hose and replace the 2pipes as it costs 3 quid and transformed the flat spot and turbo lag I have had
I had a look at all these hoses on mine and found the shorter 1 of the 2 near vacume pump was wearing very thin off rubbing on the plastic engine cover...i have replaced this 1 and the car seems a bit smoother when driving....would this have caused it to overboost as that was the code that came up when the spanner light came on........
(of the new pipes!)
Thinking I might need to do mine as I still have a 'poor performance' spot between 1500-2000rpm. Anyone have the cost of originals from Vx for these?
Also, in first gear, if I floor it, mad acceleration up until 4000rpm and then it just cuts out (miles from red line). Is that 'normal'?
When I started reading this post I recognised the symptoms from when I helped smiley-sri with his 120 a couple of weeks back. Unsurprisingly it was the VAC pipe on his too. Also the-wizard had same problem on his 150. Suggest this is well worth everyone checking!
mine looks perished but drives ok, mayb coz i havent noticed as they bin like that since i had the car, changing on week end...
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