'95 850 T5
Have the tell tale emulsified gloop in the oil. Its not using/losing water but finding a screen wash bottle with antifreeze in the spare wheel well made me become more suspicious of my recent purchase. I am guilty of shortish journeys on the whole (7 miles to work) but its recently had a few long outings.
The performance on boost is lacklustre, admittedly I don't have experience of another T5 to make a comparison. Its not 225bhp though. The engine has 156k miles on it. Not sure if thats old for a Volvo or just run in?
I have to take the inlet manifold off to sort the breather issue anyway so its going to be head off at the same time, that is unless someone has an alternative explanantion which is worth investigating before going that far.
I will do a leak down test when I get back to work but it does seem to provide a suitable explanation to its apparent lack of go.
Sometimes it does get up and go, other times its very sluggish. The boost pressure must be going somewhere.
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