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Smog dog in L.A. needs help--failed NO @ 15mph --turbo problem? 850 1996

posted by  someone claiming to be saskia on  Thu Apr 16 13:56 CST 2009 [RELATED]

Thanks for the replies. I made a list including your suggestions and took it to a different mechanic. He cleaned out the throttle body and added something to my gas tank and said to drive it for a few hundred miles (I don't drive it often).

But, he and his brother (both worked at the dealership for 30 years, one of the brothers recently started his own indy shop)--both agreed it was my turbo beginning to go that was causing the light smoking at low speeds. Amazing guy so nice did it for free.

So I took it down the way to another highly rated specialized indy place--mechanic was Swedish, and he said it was probably the turbo--but he could spend an hour @$90.00 to go through and figure out if anything else was causing it.

Is it just that they all want to replace my turbo, or that it really might be starting to go? Why do you guys not think it's the turbo causing the smoke and messing up my smog results?

Thanks for any insights and again thanks for the suggestions!

Saskia
Santa Monica, CA






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