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| Nilrem280 Member Since: 02 Jun 2020 Location: Portchester Posts: 84      | Common problem is that the intercooler pipes deteriorate with age, easy and cheap fix so check those.
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|  Sat Apr 17 2021 11:10am | 
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| RRSTDV8 Member Since: 12 Aug 2011 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 9159      | Does it smoke under load? Black smoke would suggest an intercooler pipe has split. White smoke suggests a turbo failing. If it's the latter, don't drive it until it's looked at because it's not unknown for a turbo failure to stuff enough oil in to the intake system to hydro-lock the engine. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
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|  Sat Apr 17 2021 12:15pm | 
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| Callyp43 Member Since: 06 Feb 2021 Location: Staffordshire Posts: 2      | Thank you for the pointer. Found the top right hand hose split, will replace both top hoses immediately and sort the bottom two later. Thanks again | ||
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