Limited Performance

[DelticDaz]

2.8 V6....Driving home tonight on the motorway doing 70mph went to overtake a car and 'Limited Performance' was displayed....

31 miles left on DTE....no other warning lights on or unusual noises....

Any ideas / suggestions...??

Cheers Daz

[Petemate]

2.8 V6....Driving home tonight on the motorway doing 70mph went to overtake a car and 'Limited Performance' was displayed....

31 miles left on DTE....no other warning lights on or unusual noises....

Any ideas / suggestions...??

Cheers Daz

Have you ever had DTE that low? if not, is there possibly something in the electrickery to limit performance until one puts more go-go juice in the tank?
Just a thought
Pete

[Audax]

I'd get it on Tech-2 if it doesn't go away by itself. My *guess* would be a problem with the turbo control valve as that seems to be the only thing that goes wrong with them and as the valves are £12 they're not really very expensive!

[DelticDaz]

Thanx for the replys.......Im lucky enough to know a good friend who has a garage, so took it down and he connected one of those code reader thingys to my car but there wasnt any codes stored....so he has cleared the error message and had a check round the engine and said it was running perfectly, so told me go drive round and see if it reoccurs, so far its been ok just been out for a short drive and gave it some and all seems ok.....if it does reoccur think it will need hooking up to tech2 to see what the problem is.....

[DelticDaz]

Agree with the turbo control valve.....noticed the turbo gauge flicks into the red zone,which it shouldnt,under heavey acceleration...!

Then I reversed off the drive to sound of twaaaaannnnnggggg........

Yep broken spring.....!!!!

[philmots]

If you've broken a spring then it's a perfect oppertunity to get a set of Hirsch ones. They're excellent.

[sgould]

We have the Hirsch ones.  Get them!

http://www.hirsch-performance.ch/Content.aspx?path=/Products/Fahrwerke


When interpreting the turbo gauge, don't forget it's not reading pressure directly.  It shows an electronic signal of a value calculated by the ECU.

[DelticDaz]

Dam it......i should have thought of upgrading to Hirsch springs......anyway £260 for the front pair fitted by my local SAAB garage in Leeds, with a 2 year warranty...!!

[philmots]

Have you gone with that mate?

There's a good indi in Ponti that i'd use over them.. I'd travel to York over using them in Leeds too.