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Hey, can anyone help me I’m after a bit of advice?
Ive got a local garage who I’ve paid out over £300 to fix a starting problem. (Didn’t fix it) to only have the engine Managment light come on yesterday and it felt like it was in limp mode in lows revs, once turbo kicked in it was fine again? I’ve Been to this garage and he told me just to scrap the car? After I’ve spent well over £1000 in the last few months on starting problems and a new turbo. The cars a Vauxhall Astra h 1.9. Anywayyyyy turns out it’s the swirl flaps? (Just my luck) he told me to bin the car but I’ve been searching and seen that I can do something called swirl flap delete. Is this something I can do since it’s already playing up or has it gone to far?
Ive got a local garage who I’ve paid out over £300 to fix a starting problem. (Didn’t fix it) to only have the engine Managment light come on yesterday and it felt like it was in limp mode in lows revs, once turbo kicked in it was fine again? I’ve Been to this garage and he told me just to scrap the car? After I’ve spent well over £1000 in the last few months on starting problems and a new turbo. The cars a Vauxhall Astra h 1.9. Anywayyyyy turns out it’s the swirl flaps? (Just my luck) he told me to bin the car but I’ve been searching and seen that I can do something called swirl flap delete. Is this something I can do since it’s already playing up or has it gone to far?
I looked into this for my Jeep, turns out that it only requires a 20p resistor from RS stuck into a connector to make the ECU think the swirl flap motor is still present, then you unplug the motor and the flaps are left open all the time. So pretty easy to do. As I understand it actually removing the flaps means fixing holes in the manifold where the spindles go (with some small screws and araldite / epoxy etc.. it seems) to prevent air leaking in, then a similar process to trick the ECU so it doesn't throw up an error code or the EML.
Whether its that easy on other cars I don't know, but it might be.
Have you considered getting a used manifold from someone like 1st Choice / breakerlink etc... to see if it cures the problem?
Whether its that easy on other cars I don't know, but it might be.
Have you considered getting a used manifold from someone like 1st Choice / breakerlink etc... to see if it cures the problem?
Cars worth around 1500 if this was sorted it’s still quite low mileage (112) 07 plate. Few mods nothing major or to do with the engine tho! Kept everything quite simple that way! I’ve thought about getting a new manifold but seems a lot more expensive and for labour on top of that to, just seems worth getting the blanking plates for the swirl flaps and the egr just don’t want to blank them to find out I’ve damaged anything else if that makes sense, seems to be driving complelty fine untill I go to set off, or get stopped in traffic lights
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