Glutton for punishment

hazy emission is normally oil. And if it's happening "after the engine's warmed up or has been revved" then that generally means bad things :)

Worn turbo seals?

Okay but would this cause the crappy idle and stalling?

Do you get boost? Turbo seized if not and pissing oil into the exhaust.

Or worn Turbo seals = oil and vacuum leak = stalling/idle

Matt

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Yep there is boost and car pulls very well indeed above idle speeds if you manage not to stall it getting there!

I didn't realise a shot turbo could cause a vaccuum problem.

I must have buggered it on the drive to the lockup (from Evesham to Coventry) because it seemed fine until now :( There are these two sets of traffic lights in Coventry and you need a pretty quick car to get between them before the second set goes red. The dedra just about makes it ;)

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Nope, but a vac leak could expecially, to distributor advance and the like, so it would make your timing out etc.

Silly things like a none tight fitting fuel or oil cap have been know to cause idle probs on a certain brand of car that me and Matt are familiar with.

Doesn't matter. Under load, you've got plenty of fuel to burn, so it doesn't matter if there's oil in there. Under idle, you've got bugger all fuel - so a bit of oil will mess the mixture right up. Think about it !

Depends how much it's leaking !

These things are a gradual process - you can't instantly bugger a Turbo (unless you did something stupid like drive on boost with a cold engine).

Depends how much oil is leaking in ! Clearly if there's a fair bit, then it's gonna run like shit - it's not a Diesel :)