WARNING LONG A$$ STORY
A friend of mine bought a 2010 1.7 16v CDTI ecoflex astra 125ps in 2014 on finance. the car was second hand but FSH and was clean he had no problems with the car initially but when he lost his job he started skimping out on things like tires and oil changes and it once covered 20k on the same oil. its now at 119k and hes had it in the garage ( a lowly rated one mind) in and out for around a month.
symptoms of the car were: loss of boost,wouldnt rev up as it previously did and often cut out unexpectedly.
The garage changed the DPF, and changed the headgasket as they said he had low compression on a cylinder.all was well for around 3 weeks then it started with the underboost problem and the turbo felt like it was surging on pickup. Its very hard to explain it but its like a surge/lag and it doesnt pick up well, it almost feels like the clutch is slipping underfoot.
Anyway, last week he was driving at around 60mph put his foot down to overtake and "pop" power was almost gone, he said "steam" from under the bonnet, black smoke behind and oil sprayed very finely all over the back of the engine and bulkhead.
He's had enough and just bought a new focus instead, the scrapman had just turned up with £450 for him when I pulled up at his house. I gave him a stern word and threw the scrapman £20 for his inconvenience and I'm going to pick it up monday
train of thought is to compression test the engine to make sure theres no blowby (never done this on a diesel before)
followed by pulling off the intercooler pipes to have a look at the turbo.
thanks for reading, thought I'd post here though as the mk6 section on astra forum is dead
A friend of mine bought a 2010 1.7 16v CDTI ecoflex astra 125ps in 2014 on finance. the car was second hand but FSH and was clean he had no problems with the car initially but when he lost his job he started skimping out on things like tires and oil changes and it once covered 20k on the same oil. its now at 119k and hes had it in the garage ( a lowly rated one mind) in and out for around a month.
symptoms of the car were: loss of boost,wouldnt rev up as it previously did and often cut out unexpectedly.
The garage changed the DPF, and changed the headgasket as they said he had low compression on a cylinder.all was well for around 3 weeks then it started with the underboost problem and the turbo felt like it was surging on pickup. Its very hard to explain it but its like a surge/lag and it doesnt pick up well, it almost feels like the clutch is slipping underfoot.
Anyway, last week he was driving at around 60mph put his foot down to overtake and "pop" power was almost gone, he said "steam" from under the bonnet, black smoke behind and oil sprayed very finely all over the back of the engine and bulkhead.
He's had enough and just bought a new focus instead, the scrapman had just turned up with £450 for him when I pulled up at his house. I gave him a stern word and threw the scrapman £20 for his inconvenience and I'm going to pick it up monday
train of thought is to compression test the engine to make sure theres no blowby (never done this on a diesel before)
followed by pulling off the intercooler pipes to have a look at the turbo.
thanks for reading, thought I'd post here though as the mk6 section on astra forum is dead