powaw
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Last week I had a huge power loss in my vehicle while driving home from work. I don't have a vag com so I couldn't pull the code. I did some digging on here and checked the Maf sensor by unplugging and going for a ride. That didn't help except that my wife and I noticed that we werent' hearing the turbo. I began researching that and found the thread on turbo overboost problems and headed in that direction as the sympotms fit what I was observing. Since I was at home and didn't have all of the replacement hoses on hand I decided to remove the cat, gut it, and reinstall it to make sure that it wasn't clogged up. It was pretty clogged up, but not enough to screw up the car. So I'm on the ground under the car putting the nuts back on the turbo flange and using a flash light I examined the actuator on the rear of the turbo. It looked fine but it wouldn't budge. I knew that it should so I took a closer look. Here is what brought my car to a lack luster crawl in limp mode..... a ROCK!!! Just behind the actuator arm and under the little bellcrank was a rock. I took my knife out, removed it and went for a test drive. It ran great, as a matter of fact I don't remember it running this well when we took delivery of it 4 years and 150.000 miles ago. I guess my car was ready for me to ditch the cat and talked a rock into helping out. Keep an eye out for this one if you have a turbo problem...what are the odds, I think I might buy a lotto ticket.
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