Hi guys,
My focus 1.8 tdci 2003 on 140k has been playing up for the past 2 months or so now and today has decieded to die on me.

Please help guys. My partner and i are expecting our first kid within the next week. I desprately need the car back.

First issue i had was the coolant would pressurise and fill the coolant tank and the temprature gauge would be off the chart but the engine (most of the time was normal tempratue.)

Second recient problem was a split turbo pipe (90 degree pipe top left of engine) this was tempararily sorted with a solid layers of duct tape till my pipes arrived.

After this the car was running ok-ish not perfect, but just didnt feel as powerful since when i first had it.
Today though. I started pulling of, not hard, just a medium speed, followed by a klonking and struggling as if it was stalling, it then pulled off fine-ish. 50 yards down the road the temprature gauge was up again and it was klonking again. so we pulled over.

After sorting the water temprature out I started the car, (brown and slightly foamy white) it struggled a bit and run really rough so i switched it off, but. The engine still ran (i suspect the turbo is burning oil)

When started its white smoke, and whilst revving.
Black smoke once engine is killed but turbo keeps it going (had to be stalled)

RAC has suspected it as head gasket and turbo issues.

Cheers for any help given. I dont wanna break the car. I like it too much.

 

Head gasket sounds dead

 

Just head gasket? Is there anything that can affect both at same time?

 

fix the head gasket, then see how it runs after.