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Bogblaster



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Now it's the chuffing turbo
My 2007 Puma 90 has been diagnosed, for the second time, with a failed turbo, it had the same fault about 5000 miles ago, and went again on Saturday. It starts off as a high pitched whine, and then as the turbo deteriorates turns to a banshee like wail. LR have been very good about it, I have a FL2 on my drive and that will be replaced by a FFRR tomorrow as the FL2 won't tow the skin off a rice pudding.

AndrewS has had the same turbo problem, but only once, so I am concerned that I treat my truck harder than he does Embarassed Which I didn't believe was possible Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter

The trouble is I am starting to lose confidence in my 90, at this rate I feel a D3 commercial coming on. 2019 MY Disco 5 HSE Lux
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mse



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THis a common transit problem apparently - i think something earlyones suffer Mike
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Bogblaster



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Cheers MSE

So Ford sold all the duff ones to LR! I have 4 Duratorq transits and they are all fine, 1 x 2001, 1 x 2005, 1 x 2006 and 1 x 2007. We have had problems with Dual Mass Flywheels but not, as yet, turbos. They are all loaded permanently as we carry drain cleaning and surveying kit - all in at 3300 kg Whistle

Both mine have failed under load, once towing a trailer up a hill and secondly when driving on motorway at 80 ish. So why are they OK in the Transits? I wish I knew!

Frustrating as hell. 2019 MY Disco 5 HSE Lux
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mse



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Bogblaster wrote:
Cheers MSE

So Ford sold all the duff ones to LR! I have 4 Duratorq transits and they are all fine, 1 x 2001, 1 x 2005, 1 x 2006 and 1 x 2007. We have had problems with Dual Mass Flywheels but not, as yet, turbos. They are all loaded permanently as we carry drain cleaning and surveying kit - all in at 3300 kg Whistle

Both mine have failed under load, once towing a trailer up a hill and secondly when driving on motorway at 80 ish. So why are they OK in the Transits? I wish I knew!

Frustrating as hell.


Youll never get a dual mass flywheel failure on a defender (they dont have them)

Yes i dont know where i read it - but the turbo is a known (atleast by those that know!) a common Ford Transit failure

just a quick search on google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Transit+turbo+failure&hl=en

but:
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RELIABILITY!! Working on these vans day in day out I have seen some pretty poor what can only be described as build quality.
ie: engine failure at 1500 miles
turbo failure at 200 miles
5 vans from a batch of 10 requiring new diesel pumps in the first 3 months . Thats just a few from the top of my head.
All this from the backbone of britian and a multi million pound company, what is ford playing at , thank god for that 'bumper to bumper' 100,000 mile warranty.


Maybe more interestingly - linked to the EGR??

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I swapped my vans in Jan 06 for the new Transit after using Fiat ducato's for 3 years,The problems we are having with these van's seams to be getting excessive,EGR valve's have gone on all 6 van's,wheel bearing failure's on 2,turbo blown on another(according to the dealer this is because of the EGR valve)my local dealer has told me they are waiting for over 150 EGR valve's from Ford,key fob's not working(the last one we had into the dealer for a key fob lasted 2 day's before it stopped working again).The Transit is supposed to be the backbone of Britain not in my case it seems.None of the van's are high miles between 20,000 and 30,000
 Mike
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AndrewS



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The Red Dwarf is waiting for an EGR valve. They have had the car over a month now and have just ordered the valve. Guess what LR have none in stock.
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Andrew, it makes you wonder if the first turbo problem we have both had was down to a dodgy EGR and that is the reason mine has gone again. I spoke to Likes this week and they told me they had had their first EGR failure this week, I am guessing that was yours then! 2019 MY Disco 5 HSE Lux
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Nidge



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Do you need the EGR value on the puma engine ??
I was having problems with EGR value on my td5 90, removed it and replaced with blanking plate. Solved all the problems and engine runs much better now Confused

Andrew on another matter - Did you have any balancing problems with ZU wheel tyre combination ?
just got a set with BFG all terrains and used Dyna balancing, they wobbling all over the place above 50mph ?

Nidge.
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Nidge wrote:

Andrew on another matter - Did you have any balancing problems with ZU wheel tyre combination ?
just got a set with BFG all terrains and used Dyna balancing, they wobbling all over the place above 50mph ?

Nidge.


None at all. ATS ballanced my wheels using stick on weights. Thumbs Up
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