DR1986 New Member 16 Member For: 11y 11m 7d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 20/03/14 12:00 PM Share Posted 20/03/14 12:00 PM I plugged my code reader in this morning and found these errors after my BA XR6T shat itself last night.By shat itself I mean I was driving at about 3500rpm all of a sudden it makes a bad sounding noise then starts running like sh*t so I pull over and stop engine, turn engine back on and its fine.P0171 - system too lean (b1)P1227 wastegate failed closed (over pressure)P1131 lack of ho2s - 11 switches - sensor indicates lean (b1,s1)P1132 lack of ho2s - 11 switches - sensor indicates rich (b1,s1)I know it needs a tune because It has not had a tune since I put the new turbo back exhaust on, but I do have it back at stock tune for the time being.Should I be taking it to Ford to have it check for mechanical faults or should I be taking it to my tuner to have it custom tuned?Any advice would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratter Member 6,793 Member For: 18y 6m 18d Gender: Male Location: @ my laptop Posted 20/03/14 12:19 PM Share Posted 20/03/14 12:19 PM you need to get your tuner to look at it, Ford normally are not interested in cars that have mods on them because it throws things into chaos in the ecu, they can only flash stock tunes into cars, they can not alter things to suit the mods, but either way, you need to work out what is going on before just assuming a tune will fix it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wenier Donating Members 1,736 Member For: 14y 10m 27d Gender: Male Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Posted 20/03/14 09:43 PM Share Posted 20/03/14 09:43 PM I know it needs a tune because It has not had a tune since I put the new turbo back exhaust on, but I do have it back at stock tune for the time being.If you know it requires a tune after doing the exhaust why are you revving it that high? Maybe you should've left the exhaust off till just before tune time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR1986 New Member 16 Member For: 11y 11m 7d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 20/03/14 11:00 PM Author Share Posted 20/03/14 11:00 PM If you know it requires a tune after doing the exhaust why are you revving it that high? Maybe you should've left the exhaust off till just before tune time.I didnt think 3500 would be unsafe.Looks like ill be taking it to my tuner. Thanks for the responses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masda74 To Loud Gold Donating Members 4,112 Member For: 13y 15d Gender: Male Location: WA, Perth Posted 20/03/14 11:51 PM Share Posted 20/03/14 11:51 PM Boost normally comes on at 2500rpm, normally when you do changes like the exhaust, you try and keep it off boost and you should be fine.But as mentioned, take it to get tuned ASAP.I know that if I were to be making changes like that, I could not keep it off boost. I love it when my car starts whining............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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