- Feb 24, 2013
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- Funster No
- 24,833
- MH
- Hymer S800
- Exp
- not long enough
Firstly for anybody who has been with me for the last couple of days, there appears to be nothing wrong with the gearbox, as yet anyway
The fault with limp mode cutting in, as advised by others is apparently very unlikely if not impossible to be caused by mechanical issues
Mine is a function of the turbo boost management, (no idea what I am talking about) but paid more attention when being told this time
Some box of tricks attached to the turbo are telling fibs to the next thing it talks to, my words not the engineers , it says the turbo is giving too much boost when it not actually giving enough, so cuts down on turbo power (I think that's more or less it anyway)
So, we need a new box of thingies for the side of the turbo then do we? No, Mercedes only sell the thingies attached to the turbo, which is still absolutely perfect, only just done 20K miles, no we need a complete turbo, £1200 + VAT plus how on earth do you get to the top of the engine in an S class Mercedes MH??
Hymer have been sent an email to ask how they would get to it, dash out or engine out seem the only options
Has anybody else has this happen to their turbo what did they do? My man is not keen to send the turbo away for fixing by an independent as what if he spends hours refitting and it still doesn't work, seems a more than fair point
So plan A is, buy new turbo, fit, put my problem to bed, then maybe send off my faulty bits for refurb and sell them to recover some of my costs, at least it will still be much less than working on the gearbox