This morning I passed my car over to Hobin's of manchester (a seat and skoda dealer) for it's 2nd year service. They've just phoned me to say that the car is coming along ok but the turbo is leaking and needs to go back for some parts to be replaced. :(

I haven't noticed any performance drop however I don't drive like a mad man timing laps etc. I was wondering if this is a common problem with the VRS and what normally causes it.

Yep happened to mine a few months back and got a new turbo on warranty:rofl:

How can I tell if it's leaking again, is this some thing they will have to check on VAG com or can a visual inspection bring it up?

I'd be interested in any more info on this too. Ours recently had a leak from the egr valve which was replaced on warranty. Our turbo seems to whistle most of the time when stationery

vnt turbo's generally "whistle" when stationary IIRC

no doubt someone will clarify

Mine was making awful noises between 2 and 3k revs (due to oil in the intercooler I was told), also putting out **** loads of smoke under heavy acceleration. I took it to a dealers who said there was nothing wrong until I said I would not pick it up until they found the fault. Low and behold the next day they rang saying it needed a new turbo.

LOL thinking about it mine has been putting out a cloud of smoke when I join on to the mancy way but I thought that was common in desiels under acceleration...

Well they gave me a work order form tonight (inc a free 1ltr bottle of oil in a zip bag- all very fancy and nothing like the inout service I got from horners) and it states it needs two new rubber seals on it so I wont be getting a new turbo by the sounds of it.