Not a Skoda but VAG at least. We picked up my wife's Passat 2 litre TDI in July and I thought the turbo was a little too audible.

I had the car in at the dealers to get some trim pieces done under warranty and asked them to check all was o.k. They checked everything and said things were fine and the noise I described was normal.

I wasn't convinced so took it to another dealer who have replaced the turbo under warranty. At least i had it replaced before it went completely and took other parts with it.

The noise did start as a loader whistle but later on lift off when changing gear there was a loadish higher pitched WOOO noise.

I think my 1.9 tdi is starting to make the same noise.

They replaced it with no questions but I'm wondering what may have caused the fault, is it a manufacturing fault, being on variable servicing or my relaxed driving style that's causing it?

It may be a combination but want to try to prevent it happaning again in the future out of warranty.

The turbos are crap.

But to be fair to the first dealer we have instructions not to change turbos just because a bit of noise. the fact they make noise and get noiser is acceptable.

However I do change a couple a week normally at the moment.

Your all getting me worried, my 2.0TDi which is now out of warranty has now covered more than 60K miles on the original turbo.

Oddy enough not as many Skoda turbos break up as their VW counterparts. However I guess that could be down to volume.

If Ross and I had a pound for every blown turbo

Well this turbo had 48,000 miles on it. The service guy said that they had done others the same week.

Surely if there is a specific noise prior to them going belly up then better to replace before other parts being damaged when they go all together?

O.T. I saw a VW Toureg sp. belt past me on the M6 then shortly after lots of white smoke pouring out of the exhaust on the hard shoulder. It was a 3 litre TDI, not sure if they have similar issues as it seems to be the 2 litre going more often.

Ching...

WD cover the turbo and everything a huge amount of the other stuff for £300 (main dealer) for 13 months.