Took my friend from mine to Gatwick today (nice easy ride I thought, around 3hrs round trip.. What could possibly go wrong?!) Just as I was pulling on to the M25 I lost a fair amount of poke and there was a horrendous noise coming from the Engine bay on anything over 1600rpm..

I suspected the Turbo had gone so called the AA to get recovered off the motorway and when he arrived he had a look over the car for around 10 minutes and told me my Turbo was completely shot.

Anyone had their Turbo go on a mk6 diesel? And if so;

How much is the Turbo likely to cost?
If a lot is it worth getting one from scrapyard/reconditioned unit?

How long will is fitting of the Turbo likely to take?

Just want to get a rough idea of how much time + money I'm gonna sink in to the car before she's back on the road!

Ta.

I know this is not the same car, but we had a Astra Turbo Diesel, and the turbo went on that, the advise from the garage was to replace the car, although the turbo could be replaced it had small metal fins that had sheared off and were floating round in the intercooler waiting to cause god knows how much damage, So my advise would be to speak with your garage and see what they think. Hope you get your car sorted soon.

When you get a new turbo fitted make sure the oil feeds are working properly or the new turbo will fail very quickly. A common cause of turbo failure is wrong grade/dirty oil and oil feed blockage.

Turbos are huge money and normally always sold on an exchange basis with your one, you won't see change from under £500 inc fitting of a crappy 2nd hand one, personally I'd look at getting a refurbished one.

Although a broken turbo doesn't usually just kill the car, it should have been chucking out huge black clouds on boost long before that happened.

Also I'd be amazed if the AA man could tell the Turbo was gone without taking it off and apart, some super Xray vision he's got there.

Yeah the patrolman took the engine cover off, poked around there then took a pipe off leading to the turbo had a look inside and said something sheered off?!

I was wondering whether I could get a turbo from a focus 2.0 tdci as my friend has one for breaking or whether it'd have to be the same engine size?

Reconditioned turbo from ford inc fitting and flushing of engine etc costs just over 1000 I've been told, wasn't expecting that much!

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Yep, it's one of those jobs when going to a stealer, HG's, Broken belts etc you just won't get done for under a grand.

Flushing the engine is a simple task anyway, just to get the old crappy oil out.

Was it not the oil feed pipe that maybe broke off / sheared off due to flex and then it simply cooked itself?

Do you have any knowledge of doing these things yourself? Turbos aren't that hard to fit on a FWD car, have a look on Fleabay for one being broken and have that and the pipe work for a hundred or so and take a weekend off doing it, won't take a day really, then just fill with cheap mineral oil, run it through get it nice and hot, drop it out and fill with decent oil ( not many garages actually do this as they cba with it but should be done )

I'd personally just dismantle the front end, take the rad and slam panel off and DIY it. good fun too.

If it is a turbo, turbo technics are brilliant and a couple of mechanics I know use them.

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bit random but i was looking on eurocarparts last night and found myself looking at turbo's haha. might be worth a look, seen some reconditioned ones/new ones

Yeah the patrolman took the engine cover off, poked around there then took a pipe off leading to the turbo had a look inside and said something sheered off?!

I was wondering whether I could get a turbo from a focus 2.0 tdci as my friend has one for breaking or whether it'd have to be the same engine size?

Reconditioned turbo from ford inc fitting and flushing of engine etc costs just over 1000 I've been told, wasn't expecting that much!

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The pipe he took off was the turbo intake, the bit that sheared off was the compressor wheel, and /or the shaft, you can replace the cartridge (compressor&turbine wheel, shaft/ bearing housing in one bulit-up unit, usually refurbished

It is possible the turbo broke up due to over-revving (the turbo) due to a fault in the boost control system(s) - best to check this or you may break the next turbo, too (though it could also be due to old/ contaminated oil, oil starvation, lubrication failure, neglect or abuse, etc etc

Have spoken to a few places regarding a new Turbo,

TurboTechs have told me that my engine is one of the most common engines to go because the engine over produces carbon and starves the turbo of oil causing it to be put under pressure and fail... as its the furthest part away from the oil system it always go first..

I wasn't quoted a bad price of around £400 inc vat but they advised me no warranty would be given as they've seen numerous cases where customers have come out of garages and the Turbo has blown within 5-10 miles.

Another couple of Turbo places have said the exact same thing so I may ring ford to see what I'm actually gonna get for my money...!