Hello all, I know this has no doubt been covered sooo many times but however many times I read the forums or watch the YouTube videos I cannot seem to find my actuator rod on the side of my turbo.

I have recently had the car go into limp mode and when the fault was scanned it lead me to the MAP sensor, I cleaned it and subsequently replaced it (Note to self, don't poke anything down the sensor as they break) but I am still having issues which I believe could be down to the turbo actuator. When I drive the car normal it appears to run ok although if I put my foot down to drive it like I have stole it then I get a good plume of black smoke and the car accelerates hard up to about 4k revs then jump into restricted performance.

I have looked from the top of the engine and through the wheel arch but cannot see the actuator rod and wondered if RR have sold me a car without the actuator on or if they can be located anywhere else.

Any help to assist my sanity would be greatly appreciated.

Dai

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It will be there it's just In deep.

When you turn the ignition off it should move but as your sounds completely stuck, not much help

Thanks for the reply Andy, I took it out for a quick spin before with the thought if I use it it may free itself and it started behaving for about 5 minutes until it went bang. I am hoping by the noise it started to make that it has blown a turbo pipe, needless to say it is now in the hands of a local garage as it didn't have the power to get back up the hill to the house.
Fingers crossed I don't get too big a bill as I am saving for the cambelts to be done next month!!

Sounds like it could be a split inlet manifold...

I hope to god you didn't take it to LR Conwy Llandudno Junction, they over charge and had very poor service from them.  John

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No Johnski, I only take it there for a service and my stamp as like you say they are too expensive for me. I had a problem last year with my transfer box and they wanted £3k just to take it out!!!!!
The garage suspect it is the pipe from the intercooler as it is the most commen one to blow. They also suspect I may have a sticky EGR valve so they will check that out whilst they have it. I'm hoping the bill will be sensible as I have asked them to quote for my cambelt change which is due soon.

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I only take it there for a service and my stamp

RRSTDV8 wrote:

Do you think the stamp will improve the resale value? If so, will it offset the increased cost of the getting the stamp over the cost from an indie?

I never thought of it that way - I just thought since I bought it with fsh and will be looking to swap it next year I should keep up with the service even though I won't let them do anything that isn't covered by basic service. If the car needs extras like pads or discs they are done at home, I just keep receipts for everything I buy. It's the way I was brought up, all my cars have a folder of history

Update - news from the garage, the DPC filter is blocked solid. Not sure if I have done the right thing but opted for removal of the filter and a remap. Car back early next week

Latest update, I'm fed up now. Been to the garage today to be told that although the DPF has been removed and remapped there is still a fault on the drivers side air flow boost. They suspect the turbo actuator but are quoting silly money to investigate it further. Needless to say the car is now back home whilst I try and work out what to do. I am not sure if the turbo is working and when I have looked at it I still can't see any actuator rod like in the videos. I have attached a pic of the type of turbo I have and am looking for ideas as to how I can test/fix this without it breaking the bank.

Any help is very much appreciated