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Old 19-05-2010, 18:54   #1
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Default Need suggestions - Engine issues

Right, so basically, on Sunday I was driving home from London via the wonderful piece of the tarmac known as the M25. Just after coming out of the roadworks towards the A1, I started to accelerate away, when all of a sudden there was a dramatic loss in power, and it was very very hard to climb any form of hill at much above 40.

I managed to get it all the way home somehow, where upon after disscussion with a few people, it was thought that it was a fuel pump issue, and shouldn't be a hugely major fix, probably a few hundred, which isn't too bad.

Earlier today, I took it to the local Ford garage to have them run a check to see what the problem actually was. The found it. It was fuel pump problems, it was turbo related. The Turbo Control Unit had decided to give up the ghost. This means (according to Ford and the internet people) an entirely new turbo. I am fully aware that any such work is not cheap to do, nor are parts easy to get hold of. Ford have quoted this repair at circa £1500 for everything. I'm pretty sure i'm not going to be paying that, but if it comes to it, I may have to.

This leaves me with several choices.

A) Bend over and get shafted for £1500, but know that the problem is sorted.
B) Do the above, but then proceed to sell the car for hopefully more than £1500.
C) Source the part online, and get a local garage to fit it (probably £600 total).
D) Again, do the above and sell it
or E) Get rid of the car as is with the issue to a garage, hopefully in part-exchange for another car.

I'm not really sure what to do, I like the car, but i'm just not feeling anything towards it, and i'm not going to be at all sad if I sell it. I'm hoping you motoring people of BD would be able to give me some advice as to what you would do.
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