Phantom_Mark
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I have a 2004 TD4
Its got 54k on the clock.
Since we got it a month ago we felt that it felt a little fluffy when pulling away from standstill, and also when you slow for a roundabout and hit the gas again to join the flow of traffic, like it hesitates, fuel economy has been rather crap as well, even driven lightly.
So anyways, last night I removed the injector cover, then the airbox, pulled the MAF plug, took it for a spin.
Throttle response seems 100x better now, before you had to press the throttle what seemed way too much for what you would expect in response.
Today the wife took it to work, after she left I noticed a small pool of oil on the floor, so I called her and told her to lift the bonnet and check for any obviously signs of a leak ( fearing that I had not replaced the oil cap properly !! )
She calls back saying there is oil everywhere ( I start to feel guilty and fearing the oil cap wasn't on ! ), oil is all over the expansion bottle, PS res, and generaly on the oil cap side of the engine, however I told her to check the oil cap and she says it was definately on properly, I also got her to check the dipstick just in case which was also firmly planted.
She is still at work atm ( some 20 miles away ) so I have not been able to take a look and see wtf has gone wrong, oil levels fine, you know how oil spreads like hell, im wondering if I could have disturbed something whilst doing the above jobs, I didnt bother to refit the injector plastic cover only the Airbox etc.............anyone have any bright ideas ?
OT: the car was on diags yesterday before I did this and showed no problems ?? I still wanted to try it for my own peice of mind because AFAIK its still possible to have a dodgy MAF without it showing on Diags ?
Its got 54k on the clock.
Since we got it a month ago we felt that it felt a little fluffy when pulling away from standstill, and also when you slow for a roundabout and hit the gas again to join the flow of traffic, like it hesitates, fuel economy has been rather crap as well, even driven lightly.
So anyways, last night I removed the injector cover, then the airbox, pulled the MAF plug, took it for a spin.
Throttle response seems 100x better now, before you had to press the throttle what seemed way too much for what you would expect in response.
Today the wife took it to work, after she left I noticed a small pool of oil on the floor, so I called her and told her to lift the bonnet and check for any obviously signs of a leak ( fearing that I had not replaced the oil cap properly !! )
She calls back saying there is oil everywhere ( I start to feel guilty and fearing the oil cap wasn't on ! ), oil is all over the expansion bottle, PS res, and generaly on the oil cap side of the engine, however I told her to check the oil cap and she says it was definately on properly, I also got her to check the dipstick just in case which was also firmly planted.
She is still at work atm ( some 20 miles away ) so I have not been able to take a look and see wtf has gone wrong, oil levels fine, you know how oil spreads like hell, im wondering if I could have disturbed something whilst doing the above jobs, I didnt bother to refit the injector plastic cover only the Airbox etc.............anyone have any bright ideas ?
OT: the car was on diags yesterday before I did this and showed no problems ?? I still wanted to try it for my own peice of mind because AFAIK its still possible to have a dodgy MAF without it showing on Diags ?