Towing caravan home with under fifty miles to go and bosh... a noticeable deceleration and into restrictricted performance mode. A pig of a drive home thereafter but we got there.

Out with the iCarsoft and up comes the 'P006A MAP mass airflow correlation' error. Cleared and off for a short drive and hey presto, its back again.

Found the culprit - of course, it might be just one of two or more culprit - in the short hose between the throttle body and the hard plastic part of the intercooler hose.



My initial plan is to clean and duct tape it up to within an inch of its miserable life and check normal service is resumed before sending off for the part/s.

Is the short hose section available separately does anybody know or is it the whole top to bottom three piece intercooler hose? There are lots of similar looking short hoses on t'interweb but without a part number...?

(Late 2013 SD4 auto at 54k miles)

Hope you had a good time away in the van before that though.

First class time away thanks 👍

Split taped up with two or three turns of Duck™ tape, test drive with a vigorous uphill section (where it errored on the pre-repair test drive) and no error.

Now to get the part and permanently repair it.

To close this off... job done and normal performance is resumed with a £12.79* 'repair' hose from https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232810407896


* I got £3.20 discount with an ebay provided 'code'

Thanks, good info, worth knowing. FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 82k+ miles) (MY2015)
Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

Just a thank you to all who post the information on this forum, a few weeks ago had reduced engine performance on a 2011 119,000 mile. But car drove as normal. The message would self cleared, then just before Christmas reduce engine performance and revs limited to 3000 rpm. Again cleared itself.
Repeat performance on boxing day, but my son was able to read the DTC code P006A.
search on freel2 suggested split hose, and today I have found the hose split. Same hose as in the OP picture.

Will get the garage to replace it as due MOT and service in the next couple of weeks.