I'm female, so please bare with me....

Hi Denise - there are of course many things that can cause this but 2 basic things that come to mind in no order:

Rick

Do not know if your version is fitted with an oxygen sensor, but if it is, I would also check the sensor. As they fail, they can cause this symptom by send erratic readings to the computer.

Jim

I'm not sure. All I know is it's the full turbo, 175 bhp model.................and I love it! (sorry!) I noticed however on the previous MOT/service (I have ALL the history.....even 'non' dealer!) that there was a very 'minor loss of pressure on the turbo'. Could it be anything to do with the turbo? I'm a bit paranoid as I lost my 900 (my fav car ever!) when the cracked cylinder head let water get in to the turbo. I can't tell you how upset I was...............I cried off and on for 3 days! Regards, D

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I'll only "bare" with you if I see a pic first. Preferably a nekkid pic.

I too just noticed the topic title "I'm female, so please bare with me...", wow! :-)

Oh... you probably only meant "...please bear with me..." :-(

I think it was intentional. Otherwise it would suggest that females have no understanding of mechanics, and that can't be true!

Rather juvenile of you. But funny :)

John

Hardly. You probably managed to chase away one of the few female listers in this group...

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I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Oh wait. But no, I don't think your problem is related to the turbo specifically, unless you're getting grindy or gravelly noises from it. More likely are the other suggestions you've seen here. One of those may be _making_ the turbo underperform, but the turbo itself has obvious and dramatic failure modes, rather than the subtle problems you're describing.

Dave Hinz

You get *paid* to do this? I made some very bad career choices...

I thought I was diverting the discussion from an issue at hand.

Well done on focusing on the issues to hand...

A vacuum leak will effect the turbo. I had an '86 9000T and there was this one vacuum hose that always got removed during any service and caused the car to very poor accelleration, etc.. The hose also vibrated off every now and then.

Rick