Passat
In today's story from the land of annoyance, my Volkswagen is broken.
Again.
Definitely something to with the turbo plumbing.
Again.
Last time it was that the diaphragm on the blow-off/bypass valve had disintegrated (age and use, parts do wear out after all. This time it sounds like one one of the charge pipes (likely a coupler) has burst. Pulling away from a stop light a bit hard to get ahead of some traffic the car made a very loud whomp-woosh sound and threw me agains the seat belts with an amazing and sudden complete lack of acceleration. This was followed by loud, studly, burbly, growling intake noise and turbo chop but also a bit of exhaust odor, too.
Sigh.
I've poked around at it a little bit already but can't find anything obviously wrong in the most easily accessible places. (the pipes didn't pop near the intercooler) If I were going to be I'd say I probably popped the outlet pipe on the compressor side of the turbo. Another part of me thinks that maybe I blew the couple on that damn bypass valve. Either way, until I get that fixed the Passat is grounded which leaves me my motorcycle and my E30…
But the E30's master brake cylinder is leaking that that needs to get fixed too. ( It's a casualty of a long life and hard day of use at Thunderhill so it's a well earned leak. )
For just a little bit I'd been feeling somewhat better about the Passat as a daily driver/people mover and it goes and does this. And so now I'm thinking more strongly than ever that its time with me is at an end.
Good thing I decided to take the E30 up to Boulder Creek instead of the Passat. Blowing up the charge piping going up 9 ( going there or coming home at 1:30am last night ) would have suck.
Again.
Definitely something to with the turbo plumbing.
Again.
Last time it was that the diaphragm on the blow-off/bypass valve had disintegrated (age and use, parts do wear out after all. This time it sounds like one one of the charge pipes (likely a coupler) has burst. Pulling away from a stop light a bit hard to get ahead of some traffic the car made a very loud whomp-woosh sound and threw me agains the seat belts with an amazing and sudden complete lack of acceleration. This was followed by loud, studly, burbly, growling intake noise and turbo chop but also a bit of exhaust odor, too.
Sigh.
I've poked around at it a little bit already but can't find anything obviously wrong in the most easily accessible places. (the pipes didn't pop near the intercooler) If I were going to be I'd say I probably popped the outlet pipe on the compressor side of the turbo. Another part of me thinks that maybe I blew the couple on that damn bypass valve. Either way, until I get that fixed the Passat is grounded which leaves me my motorcycle and my E30…
But the E30's master brake cylinder is leaking that that needs to get fixed too. ( It's a casualty of a long life and hard day of use at Thunderhill so it's a well earned leak. )
For just a little bit I'd been feeling somewhat better about the Passat as a daily driver/people mover and it goes and does this. And so now I'm thinking more strongly than ever that its time with me is at an end.
Good thing I decided to take the E30 up to Boulder Creek instead of the Passat. Blowing up the charge piping going up 9 ( going there or coming home at 1:30am last night ) would have suck.