Thank you for the answer Yorky Bob. I will be crawling at the weekend and will post the results.

Tried cleaning your MAF? Solved my issues previously. There is a great Liquid Moly MAF cleaner. Don’t you use any other cleaner other than a MAF one.

Yorky Bob wrote:

rogerlock wrote:

I too have this problem of loss of boost when hot, has any one found a sure fix ?

Take off the under side cover, crawl under and locate the Turbo Vane Lever, spray with easing oil and then work backwards and forwards. Spray with a light lubricant and work backwards and forwards. Re-fit cover and road test.

Now tell us the result. A simple fix or now only a bad back and multi lacerations.

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Thank you Jules. I will get some Ceratec Grease before I attempt the job at the weekend.

Hi Philllip. Yes I have tried cleaning the MAF but it made no difference, but thanks for the offer of help.

Thanks for all of th ideas guys. Now have to be away this coming weekend.......wife needs a break she says....ok i say go on your own.....that went down well . So now it looks like i'll have to wait until the following weekend to try to sort it out. I'll post results here after i have tried all the suggestions.

JeandreDiedericks wrote:

Did you ever solve this problem, im also in South africa and experience exactly the same symptoms.

Well, i finally got rond to doing just a couple of things. Only changed the fuel filter and the cam sensor. Couldn't change the crankshaft sensor because they sent me the wrong one.
So far and a couple of hundred miles later the problem seems to have dissapeared but the weather has been much cooler lately. I don;t know if the problem has been cured permenantly yet, needs a few months and a lot more miles to see. Hopefully it's done the trick but when i get time i still going to change the crank sensor.
Will post on here with any further developements.

So I've been driving the Freelander hooked up to a Diagnostic machine for a few days now and one thing is evident, I'm loosing boost. When cold the car will be boosting around 1.2-1.4 bar (read from MAP sensor) and have all the power it should, after driving for a while it's like a switch has been flicked, usually when standing at a traffic light, pull of there and it only boosts somewhere between 0.6-0.8 bar. Found that the intercooler is leaking but can't think that it causes it to loose that much boost? Can it be? Cant find leaks in any pipes? Or could it be the turbo causing this erratic boost problems. Air intake temps at the MAP sensor is usually between 65-75 degrees celsuis.

Anyone have ideas?