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Boost leak

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jaycue2u:
As in the post, i seem to have a boost leak. I was driving home this morning and the boost was fine, booted it coming off a round about and the pressure built up then the car seemed to hesitate, it done this a few times and just didnt feel like it was boosting properly  :confused: so i put the windows down and tried again and you could here that everything was spinning up fine, then reached a certain pressure (dont know what pressure as i have no boost guage) and made a whistling noise. It seems pretty consistant and happens only when booted.

Im hoping its something like a pipe clip has came away and the pipe is blowing once it reaches a certain pressure. Does anyone else have any input to this?

The car was Revo'd a month or so ago so im guessing the increase in boost pressure has caused this to fail. I bought it from a trader who has gave me 3 months warrenty on it so it can / will be going back to him, but can he see if the map has been changed?

Thanks in advance

liver:
the first couple of things i would check or want you to confirm are the following;

latest revision diverter valve or uprated
lastest revision pcv fix opr uprated

these are the common boost leak areas, ive had both on my rempped gti

if not then check all joints for hoses etc like you mentioned

jaycue2u:
The car is stock apart from the Revo, i had mentioned to someone that i thought it could be the recirc valce or actuator as this happened on my MR2 tubby when i uprated the boost controller and thus running more boost.

liver:
what age is your car??

jaycue2u:
05 plate

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