Doesn’t sound like it’s gonna be a simple fix or a certain answer does it ! Thank you all for the input and stories. Will be things I can suggest to my mechanic now and if he’s out of his depth (which luckily he is willing to admit when he is) I can call a respected garage suggested

awesome I'll check them out, cheers!

Hi Geoff, yes sorry its a 2.5 diesel.

okay that's a good suggestion and makes sense! but yeh nothing was hot despite this lack of flow or build up.

I'm on the Wirral so unfortunately getting down south is a no go which to my knowledge is where most of the garages suggested on here seem to be.

Hi :) I've been trawling through these forums for about a year now looking for topics I had problems with with my bongo to help me out, such as changing the fuel filter, working out if there was an alternator problem (sediment and charge light on) conversion ideas, replacing the tail gate panel etc....