Air escaping

[Trev68]

Morning, my van has started making a whooshing noise like air escaping when accelerating, seems to be coming from the left side of the engine bay. No warning lights have come on. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers

 

[DaveD]

Morning, my van has started making a whooshing noise like air escaping when accelerating, seems to be coming from the left side of the engine bay. No warning lights have come on. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers

It's possibly a split EGR pipe.

Split front EGR flexi

Had the front EGR pipe split at the flange yesterday on me, managed to do a temp fix to get me home with some magic metal. But on removing today the end was absolutely covered in crap. Is this a normal amount to expect? Oh and is there an easier way to get to the torx bolt on far side? It was...

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[DreamingT6s]

For those searching for these symptoms. Happened to me yesterday 150bhp with 90k. Whooshing and loss of power, then coil light flashing and whooshing stopped but limp home. Garage found the front EGR pipe flange braze had failed. Did some stainless steel weld on it and it seems as good as new, no pressure loss and no further faults. Very helpful mechanic said this was quite a common failure point at the braze and that newer pipes come with a stainless weld, hence he stainless welded it. Hope this helps someone!