Magic_Man89

Thank you for all your help. I shall have a look this weekend, I shall, whilst there to give another dose of Mr muscle just for good measure... I'm sure some carbon must be stuck Good as the previous owner only used the car for around town and just got coaked up in soot.

Thank you for the info, I read your topic, I must say I was concidering changing the actuator for good measure. Is this a big job would you say? So I shouldn't be too worried about the vacuum solenoid block for the moment.

Hi all, I am in need of some advise and some pointers in the right direction. So I have a overboost issue, it will pull in 4th and 5th up to around 3k then limp. I've had the car plugged in, and egr was stuck open slightly, so I blanked egr off at the cooler side as I thought it was unmeatered air that could be the issue. At the same time I decided to pull the exhaust pipe off on hot side and use Mr Muscle. At first the actuator was stiff, but after a couple of hours of spraying and moving arm, it became much easier to move. Once all back together, took for a spin, no limp, thought I cracked it. A month down the line and yesterday whilst climbing a hill in 4th, hit 3k rpm and limp again. Now I do have a buzzing noise coming from vacuum solenoid, I'm thinking this could not be helping. I have the mooing noise when I cut ignition too. Could someone advise, I'm getting a little fed up of chasing my tail. Tia 😊

@J.R. we did that on Friday and the cause was the evaporator sensor, so going to investigate next weekend a d hopfully solve the problem

@Wino Thanks for your reply, I am not sure which I have. I will upload a photo shortly but it has duel zone temp control.

Hi All, So when I brought my Octavia MK2 estate a few months back, the Air con side of things did not work. After a 30 plus degree day, I decided enough was enough and got it recharged. It holds gas, no leaks, fans kick in ok and compressor kicks in ok however It will not blow cold air. After putting it on the diagnostics, it comes back with Evaporator Sensor, short earth. Now, the question is where is this sensor located and is it easy enough to change?