Berlingo Hdi Turbo Problem.

[Rustynuts]

Afternoon people. I think my Berlingo is unwell. It's a 52 reg, 2.0ltr HDi Berlingo van with 216k miles on the clock, and I stopped today to fill up with diesel. Coming back onto the A1 from the Shell station I chose my place in the line of traffic, indicated, booted it up the sliproad, and merged into the line as usual.

 

Except this time I heard the fatal sound of lost boost whistling away down by my knees. I stopped further on and switched off, then restarted (hoping things would magically fix themselves) but no different. It still drives okay, but there's a distinct lack of performance compared to usual, and the noise comes in when the turbo spools up.

 

Now I'm not a complete clutz when it comes to turbos but I usually frequent another forum which is VAG based (I also have a Seat Altea see, and a couple of VW Boras before that) and I have no idea what sort of turbo I have on the van as it's a tool, it gets driven hard, and it gets fixed when it goes wrong. So I'm guessing that it has a wastegated turbo and the wastegate spring has gone. A quick google gave some indication that there may be a solenoid which could be causing problems though, so can anyone give any pointers as to what the problem might be and is it a cheap fix solenoid or a full turbo?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Rustynuts]

Sorted, thankyou. ;)

[Guest Dervman]

Sorted, thankyou. :rolleyes:

 

What was the problem and fix?