Exhaust System & Turbocharger: WASTEGATE: Description

Fig 1: WASTEGATE SOLENOID LOCATION

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1 - ACCELERATOR PEDAL POSITION SENSOR

2 - A/C PRESSURE SENSOR

3 - WASTEGATE SOLENOID

The wastegate solenoid (3) is used to send a vacuum signal which controls the wastegate actuator on the turbocharger. See Fig 1.