Hi all,
New to this forum, and hoping you guys can help me!
Firstly, I’m in Kent, and we have an 09 plate Mazda 6ts2, 2.2td. I’ve actually had it since new, it was my company car for 4 years and we then bought it for my wife as a runaround when I renewed. I clocked up about 118k miles on it in that time, and it was always serviced at the main dealers when on lease. Since we bought it, she has only done another 10k on it in 5 years! When she does use it now, maybe three or four times a month, it has a run of 25 miles on A roads and motorways.
Ok, so I used it the other week and it seemed to have lost its zoom zoom. I immediately noticed the apparent lack of turbo kicking in, and then the engine management light came on. No strange noises or smoke, so I don’t think it’s broken. I bought an obd reader and looked at the codes;
One for dpf... though it has had the dpf light flashing for a while (not static), and I’m told this is just to indicate it wants a service and for you to take it to a rip off merchant, sorry... dealership, to have it checked, so I’m ignoring that for now.
It had a couple of error codes around the mass air flow sensor, and looking on google, this can cause no end of issues, so I have replaced that, along with a new air filter. Still no turbo. I also put some of that EGR cleaner up the air intake whilst running the engine, just for good measure... seems to be the done thing on google also?!?
So the next codes I’m looking at are to do with the wastegate valve, high and low voltage sensed???
Now, if I’m right in what I have read, it would seem that the wastegate valve being faulty can cause the turbo to not work, and that’s seems to be the symptom, so I’m thinking that’s the next thing to check, either faulty valve or wiring?
My questions are;
Do you think this may well be the culprit? How would you go about it?
Where the hell is the wastegate valve?
(I can’t even see the turbo in the bay!)
How hard is it to get out? (I don’t mind tinkering with spanner’s etc., but mechanic I am not. I’d handle maybe changing an alternator, (and I can see that!), changing the brakes, but dropping the gearbox kind of work is not me, if you get my drift.
Can it be checked?
Can it be replaced?
Does anyone have any other suggestions?!?
I’d hate to lose the car... it’s been great, but I’m not going to spend thousands on it, now that it’s almost 10 years old and with that mileage on it.
Appreciate any help from those ‘in the know’!
Cheers
Darren