Hi

car running great now - Hope I#'m not tempting fate there - nor problems since and has that reassuring whistle when accelerating - thinking of a remap soon but not sure if this will affect the turbo and clutch.

Has anyone had anything from Skoda on this? My turbo has gone pop at 35K and I want Skoda to pay for it. It isn't a VRS and to be honest, you have to apply for acceleration in writing. For a car that just pootles to work and back each day and doesn't get ragged, I can't believe it would go that early.

Well its good news and bad news.

The good (ish) news is that skoda will pay for 20% of the parts and labour cost overall ex vat. Thatll mean nearly £200 off the final price which isnt bad as the car is out of warranty by 2 and a bit years. I think the service history with skoda helped a bit.

The bad news is that they are waiting on a part, either an oil feed or exhaust pipe, im not sure. Which means more days with the 1.2 polo.

I just hope its in tip top condition when i get it back, the ironic thing is its just had all the filters and oil changed, discs and pads, mot....

Should the oil be changed after a turbo replacement?

:p

Got the car back and i hadnt realised how much of a good car it is.

Capitol Skoda Newport done a fine job of replacing the turbo, all cleaned and hoovered ready for me to pick her up.

Overall, with the goodwill from Skoda UK i have basically paid for parts only, and the oil&filter had been changed. A very fair deal i think.

I can highly recommend Capitol Skoda if you are anywhere near South Wales, cheers guys

At last a happy ending

Had my VRS for 12 months and turbo blew last week only done 57k miles cost me £1100 to get new turbo and have it fitted, car itself is a 2004 (54) don't know how it was driven previous to me owning it but it's been serviced anually since new. Worth contacting Skoda to see if they can compensate even after I've had the work done?

Had my VRS for 12 months and turbo blew last week only done 57k miles cost me £1100 to get new turbo and have it fitted, car itself is a 2004 (54) don't know how it was driven previous to me owning it but it's been serviced anually since new. Worth contacting Skoda to see if they can compensate even after I've had the work done?

Would be worth a try but you may find it difficult since you have already had the work done..

out of curiosity do you follow the warm up and cool off period?

And is it remapped??

There seems to be way too many Fabia Vrs turbos popping, what actually happens when they let go??

Thanks

If i'm honest I don't let it cool off but I do let the engine get warm before I take it over say 2000rpm. As far as history I don't know whether it was re-mapped or not but speaking to a friend he said the PD130 engines and the turbo's fitted to them are designed to be able to cope with 170bhp anyway so a re-map shouldn't really effect the car. I was pulling away from a set of lights got to around 1500rpm and there was a loud bang almost as if I'd stalled it a bang and a jolt then no power turbo makes a rasping noise and car won't go over 20mph with a deafening scream being heard, have e-mailed Skoda to see what they say but like you said not hoping for anything but if you don't ask you generally don't get

Edited 18 June, 201016 yr by warren1987

I would say its true the VRS can manage 170bhp, but its all based on the remap and regular oil change intervals.

I think you may find your culprit is not letting the turbo to cool down after a good run, aim to give the engine idle time of at least 30-45 seconds before you switch off.

Im following the cool off and warm up period, with a standard car im hoping to get 100k anything less I will be gutted.

yeah i'll certainly be following that form now on lol am looking at getting a new cat back system and then fitting a K n N panel filter how easy is it to fit the filters not modded a car for years and also what exhaust you guys recommend looking at both the milltek and blueflame varieties

Does Skoda, or any other manufacturer for that matter, recommend a cool down period? I dont recall seeing it.

Anyway, i agree, im certainly more aware of this and will leave the car for 30s or so now before switching off, it certainly cant do any harm.

I wonder if there may be benefit in running 5w30 oil rather than the usual 5w40 (vw 504/vw507 grade which i believe replaces the older vw505.01)?

Skoda themselves probably wont suggest a cooling down period, but it's general turbo knowledge I suppose.

Regarding the warm up etc - the car won't warm up a lot unless you use the turbo. This was particularly fun during the winter times, you had to rev the engine to get it to heat up enough to defrost the windscreen etc.

I would wait till the temp gauge has settled before trashing it too hard, but you still have to drive the car a bit.

Letting it cool down idling - that one really only applies if you trashed the nuts of it and then just turn it off, perhaps like a fast motorway stretch in Germany and just turning off the ignition to fill her up. In that case perhaps I'd just drive it to the pumps gently for the last few hundred meters and you'll be fine.

Things get hotter when the car is mapped to what the turbo can (just about) take and you don't improve cooling and it is a hot day. But if you drive it hard and then just ease off a little, it will be fine.

A petrol car with a big turbo gets WAY hotter, and with those, you do want to give it a bit more time to cool down for sure.

As this car had a stock mapping, I don't think heat would be a big enough worry to do anything out of the ordinary, and the OP does not sound like he is someone trashing the engine to near-death anyway