So driving home today went to pull away from a roundabout and the car had no power then picked up speed almost felt like i was trying to pull away in 5th gear, black smoke out the back when i tried to put my foot down. idle revs are fine no lights on the dash!!! any ideas?

Turbo hose may have a split.

whats the best way to check?

Get somebody to read the codes first before guessing. Joe

there was no codes or no lights on the dash, idled fine just no power when i pulled away after 2500rpm it seemed ok. I've dropped the car at my local garage now as i couldn't see anything obvious. i will update when i hear back from them

When I had a loss of power caused by a split top turbo hose there was no smoke. This sounds a bit more serious than that. The way forward is to get the codes read. Hope that "local garage" is a specialist LR one or they may not get you much further forward. Robin
2008 Range Rover Sport TDV8
Gone:
Jaguar S-Type V8 4.2 Sport
MGZTT 190 2.5

Just spoke to the garage there still working on it, they are saying one of the egr valves is stuck

so drivers side egr was totally shot, falling apart so the garage made up some blanks and blanked the egr off. car is now running fine

A good result not to expensive.

yeah great result the garage has been amazing over the 7 years I've had my car, 100% trust them.