Hi guys, can anyone shed any light on this?
Today suffered Turbo charger failure.
Set off from work and heard this weird noise like an electric motor coming from the front.
Got out on the road and it was really loud and no power when putting the foot down.
Straight away I new this was probably turbo related. I thought maybe intake hose or boost hose had come off.
pulled over and checked but nothing untoward.
however turbo was making a racket, sounded real loud when revved and a bit rattly.
managed to limp to my mothers house and pulled the intake hose off. Some oil spilled out and upon checking the compressor it had loads of play, so probably what the rattle was.
However seemed to still spin, but made absolutely no boost.
Gonna replace the turbo, but I'm worried about the reason for the failure?
it was driving perfectly fine going to work(no power loss or noise, no smoke) , but failed as soon as I set off back home.
I believe the turbo is VNT. Any ideas of what to check to ascertain its reason for failure?
The only thing I can thing of is that I should have changed the oil at 9k, but have let it run to 12k. The oil is Fully synth low saps.
I do almost all stress free motorway miles 5 days a week, 100 miles a day.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Today suffered Turbo charger failure.
Set off from work and heard this weird noise like an electric motor coming from the front.
Got out on the road and it was really loud and no power when putting the foot down.
Straight away I new this was probably turbo related. I thought maybe intake hose or boost hose had come off.
pulled over and checked but nothing untoward.
however turbo was making a racket, sounded real loud when revved and a bit rattly.
managed to limp to my mothers house and pulled the intake hose off. Some oil spilled out and upon checking the compressor it had loads of play, so probably what the rattle was.
However seemed to still spin, but made absolutely no boost.
Gonna replace the turbo, but I'm worried about the reason for the failure?
it was driving perfectly fine going to work(no power loss or noise, no smoke) , but failed as soon as I set off back home.
I believe the turbo is VNT. Any ideas of what to check to ascertain its reason for failure?
The only thing I can thing of is that I should have changed the oil at 9k, but have let it run to 12k. The oil is Fully synth low saps.
I do almost all stress free motorway miles 5 days a week, 100 miles a day.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.