FGX 40T Donating Members 142 Member For: 14y 9m 12d Gender: Male Location: WA - South of the River Posted 16/02/14 10:58 AM Share Posted 16/02/14 10:58 AM While driving home from work on Friday - the car started to make a very loud spooling noise and seemed to lose power. The car had been driving perfectly up to that point and no indication of any potential issues. I pulled up at a set of lights - car perfect. I drove off - normal acceleration (light) and the noise was very apparent. I checked for any blown off pipe or splits to the rubber joiners on the pipes but could not find any. Any idea of what is going on? Car is tuned - Plazmaman stage 1 pipe kit - no other mods. 2009 FG Turbo 61k on the clock - serviced every 7500km. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMMO08 New Member 12 Member For: 11y 1m 11d Posted 16/02/14 02:19 PM Share Posted 16/02/14 02:19 PM Hi mate had similiar problems it all came back to the wastegate got stuck open turbo still spooled but there was next no boost going into the engine it just leaked out the wastegate I limpet the car to the work shop by the time I got there the car had gone into limp mode and the turbo was not spooling at all the code was wastegate failed to close. Also actuator was rubbing on the exhaust shroud. Hope this will be of some help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FGX 40T Donating Members 142 Member For: 14y 9m 12d Gender: Male Location: WA - South of the River Posted 19/02/14 08:22 AM Author Share Posted 19/02/14 08:22 AM Thanks - I have had the car in and checked - Ford first and then my tuner. Both confirmed the turbo had failed. My tuner is now in the process of rebuilding it for me. I will know why the turbo failed so early once it is removed and taken apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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