MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Gbuck55 on December 12, 2015, 10:16:49 am
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Had my golf three weeks and my mechanic Is saying my turbo is on its way out as is leaking oil :-( so I'm after the best place to get a new turbo ? It's a golf gti mk5 on a 05 plate and I a new pcv valve witch I've ordered cheers for any help
Turbo part number would help cheers
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The k03 turbo is a very strong turbo unit.
You can pick then up cheap on ebay and off members on here selling them after a k04 upgrade.
Is the car smoking from the exhaust?. where's the oil leaking from?.
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I've just taken the car to another mechanic And he said the tubro
Is fine there is no smoke and she pulls fine
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Great news... Definitely worth getting that second opinion
I had my Edition 30 serviced by a popular place and was told my gearbox was leaking badly and oil dripping at a fast rate... First I had known as never seen any oil on my driveway.
They told me they can remove the gearbox and send it to a gearbox specialist for them to strip it back and find the issue. Said it would cost about £600 just to find the fault and possibly a £1000 to fix whatever the fault was...
They said 'so shall we go ahead and remove the gearbox?'
I obviously told them not to and was reminded how serious the leak was etc... I stuck to my guns and collected the car... I was happy with the work that had been done aside from the pushy gearbox crap over the phone
Took the car home and put a sheet of cardboard under the car... Nothing dripped on it for 24 hours. I then had new tyres fitted at a tyre place and asked the mechanics next door to give their opinion on the gearbox and they said it was perfectly fine and no signs of a leak anywhere near it..