MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: daboy3000 on February 05, 2011, 11:20:54 pm
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The day finaly arived, the bodyshop had finished painting various bits of my car, the new 18's were on wrapped in four brand new bits of rubber and it was looking nice, so off I went to AMD for a remap and spring fitting for the finishing touches.
But before they had a chance to remap it the turbo went pop :surprised: on the rolling road!!
I had to get 4 trains to get me home and i'm fed up :sad1: Lets just hope the 3rd rate party warranty covers it.
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Ouch that's not good.
But better it happened before the map as you would have had no case at all with the warranty
Hope it gets sorted :happy2:
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Bad times fella but remember it will all soon be sorted and better than ever. then you wont have to worry about the turbo going as its pretty common on the GT TDI`s iirc
grab a beer and look forward to driving your freshly mapped motor :drinking:
fingers crossed for the warranty coughing up :happy2:
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Thanks guys.
I have heard its pretty common, I thought there would be at least some sort of warning signs first or did I just miss them?
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Sorry to hear that, mate. My turbo blew on my old GT TDi too.
Intact 5 turbos went on mine!!! Only paid for the 1st, mind.
Still the bill was over £3k!!! (local stealer)Least you've warranty.
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Is my bill likely to be that much??? :confused:
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Depends on the damage. When my turbo blew it decked the intercooler, cat and regulator flap too. Plus all the labour. IIRC the turbo itself was £1100. My final bill had 10 hours of labour knocked off too.
They had my car for a total of eight weeks. I was on turbo 4 (2 blew on test drive and 3 went when I got the car back initially) when I traded it in for a Clio 197. Then got a call from the garage who'd ended up with TDi if I'd fitted a turbo recently because it had just blown!!!
This whole saga put me right of dealerships!!! Better with an Indy.
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Sorry to hear fella! Hopefully warranty sorts this for you! Did it blow at AMD or before you got there?
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On the rolling road mate
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Oh snap!! So i take it the Car is still there!? Bummer dude! You'll be back soon :happy2:
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Horrendous news mate.
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:sick:
Hope it gets sorted mate. What a nightmare!
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Was there a howl noise a bit like a police siren evident before it went? Very common on early pd140's unfortunately.
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Sorry to hear that mate.
A lot of turbos go pop on these. Tom went thru three I think in his tdi a3. I wouldn't map one personally because of that.
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Has the problem been sorted now on GT TDI's and the newer GTD ? I fancied a GT TDI for the fuel economy but went for an ED30 as i don't do many miles. But will be looking at a GTD when its replaced in 2/3 years. :happy2: Only because i wont be working then :evilgrin:
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Sorry to hear that mate hope you get it all sorted soon i take it AMD is doing all the work? Hope your wallet is heavy :happy2:
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After all the money I have spent on it I'm broke, if the warranty doesn't pay I'm going to sell my son!!
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I'm on turbo number 3, I don't think the turbo is well matched with this engine and could do with a bigger one so its not has stressed.
I changed my last one before it went pop, I could hear the load siren type noise :scared: and didn't want it going while the wife was driving.
Hope it gets sorted quickly mate :happy2:
Darren
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I'm on turbo number 3, I don't think the turbo is well matched with this engine and could do with a bigger one so its not has stressed.
I changed my last one before it went pop, I could hear the load siren type noise :scared: and didn't want it going while the wife was driving.
Hope it gets sorted quickly mate :happy2:
Darren
This is the only thing stopping me getting mine mapped. I hardy use the car as it is and wouldnt really see the benefit.
Did you fit the new turbos yourself Darren?
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I'm fairly certain it's related to servicing regime. I don't think the PD140's particularly enjoy long life servicing.
SEAT don't do it on the LEON 140's they are fixed to 10k.
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This is the only thing stopping me getting mine mapped. I hardy use the car as it is and wouldnt really see the benefit.
Did you fit the new turbos yourself Darren?
No I got my local garage to do it, the owner used to work on Fords Rally works cars so know whats what, I wouldn't go anywhere else.
I'm fairly certain it's related to servicing regime. I don't think the PD140's particularly enjoy long life servicing.
SEAT don't do it on the LEON 140's they are fixed to 10k.
I think your right Stu mine was on long life when I bought and I put it on fixed servicing just after the turbo was changed and its been fine since.
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Early cars came with a different spec turbo that later (mid 2006 on) cars. My turbo blew on my pd140 with just 13k on a 100% standard engine, no map or anything.
Dont buy cheap recon turbos, often the shaft is sub standard quality, and make sure the new turbo is a Garrett one, not a KKK one.
Dont let turbos put you off mapping, my PD140 lasted from 15k to 55k on a standard garrett turbo making 320ft/lb and 188bhp.
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This is all encouraging.
My 140 has always been on the 10k service since new and only done 60k mostly motorway.
I was thinking of giving AMD a visit to have a chat about it.
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2 years ago mine i had a map put on by awesome..but i went back down to them to tweak the map a bit..Geoff who used to do the maps thier said to me your turbo is whistleing a bit and could blow on the rollers.
I said noo its been like that for ages..but the turbo blew on the rollers like he said it would,they put a Garret on mine from turbo dynamics and cost me £1100 and a lot of earache of the misses as she had to do 300 mile round trip to get me :signLOL:
The turbo wasn't Awesomes fault for going bang it was mine
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This is now worrying me.......I have a 2004 GT TDi. Full VW service history but well out of warranty. Done 80k now. Should I really look at taking this to a professional turbo place to have it checked/serviced? cause if mine goes, there is now way I can afford a 3k bill :(
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The turbo's on the PD140's are very hit and miss!
I took mine to VW for some work and while it was there they said the turbo was too noisy and changed it under warranty at approx 65k (it'd had the well known owl hoot/whistle for the previous 10k)
Approx 1k miles later it's now back to whistling like before and I've been doing 5/6k mile oil and filter changes
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MY gt tdi has started giving me limp mode when flooring it uphill and im getting worried
Heard its usually the vanes sticking due to carbon build up so im gonna get it stripped and cleaned
Surely vw should have made better turbos than this
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Surely vw should have made better turbos than this
VW don't make the turbo's, Garrett do... If it's a problem with the turbo or a problem with how VW have installed them I'm not sure. I would guess it's a combination of the two
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MY gt tdi has started giving me limp mode when flooring it uphill and im getting worried
Heard its usually the vanes sticking due to carbon build up so im gonna get it stripped and cleaned
Surely vw should have made better turbos than this
A quick fix is to remove the actuator mounting bolts and work the vnt mechanism manually by pushing the actuator assembly up and down about 50 times, making sure you get the full sweep of the vnt. The first few will cycles will crunch, it will then loosen up.
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How long will VW normal hold a warranty on the turbo?
are these turbo's going due to a manufacturing fault?
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Thanks Pdt I was thinking of doing that but I know a turbo company who can strip it and clean it for 180 quid.
Once it's cleaned will it be fine?
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AMD sent the turbo off to Turbo Technics who reported that it was dry, which I guess means that over a long period of time former owners have been turning the engine off as soon as they stop and not letting it cool first, or I was just unlucky.
Anyway, it is being done under the 3rd party warranty that turned out to be with RAC and they will be changing some oil pipes of some description too!
Happy days, I might actually get to drive my car at some point, I've owned it about two months but its been in and out of workshops for coming up to 4 weeks now!!
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If it was dry it likely means that it has been starved of oil. You may have an underlying problem of oil pressure within the car so I would have that checked ASAP. I read an article recently citing such failures as being the first indicator of the problem and subsequently fitted turbo's would soon suffer a similar fate.
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I would image AMD know this and thats why they are changing some other oil related bits and bobs but I will look into it, any ideas what causes pressure problems?
Thanks BTW.
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I was just looking for the article. It may have been in VW or Audi driver mag.