It seems that there are alot of vrs's blowing turbos before the mileage gets into the 100,000 plus mark......is this normal?

I have a 2006 fabia thats done nearly 100k remapped half of its life ago and its perfectly fine, including the clutch.......

are people not servicing vehicles or is male testosterone fueling alot of heavy right footing?

I would imagine it is to do with the quality of the map and how you use (drive) it.

You've jynxed it now you fool!

Could be down to many things though I guess - maintance, driving style, luck, even quality of air filteration maybe?

You've jynxed it now you fool!

Could be down to many things though I guess - maintance, driving style, luck, even quality of air filteration maybe?

dammmmmmmmmm

I guess mine is just mapped, with a pd160 intake and its serviced every 10k maximum....it is revo mapped tho and i was told that was the harsh map?

It only seems like a lot of blown turbos, but you only hear about the ones that have blown. There are plenty PD130 Taxis that have covered 250K on original turbo. The VRS is a warm hatch, and when they get ragged you get early failures, simple wear and tear coming early. Turbo companies will tell you the KKK unit is weak, pure sales pitch, if KKK is good enough for Porsche why not Skoda. Standard car turbo failure is quite low, modified cars place more strain on the drive train and turbo in particular. If it's producing more power, there has to be more strain on the engine and turbo.

A lot of mapping results in over fueling, which means more smoke (exhaust soot), this can clog the VNT causing it to stick = over boost = turbo shaft snapping. A simple maintenance not listed by Skoda, is to drop the engine under tray every 10K and check the VNT lever moves freely and with no tight spots. Although a messy job, the turbo can be stripped down, and the VNT vanes and rotation plate can cleaned with scotch brite and the housing with a dental scraper.

^^^ as above.

It`s down to so many things, how often oil is changed and the type, how its driven, type of map etc etc. Change the oil as often as possible, use decent stuff, and warm it up before ragging it and it should survive a little longer. Mine went at 123,000ish miles, first 116k was motorway miles, dealer serviced, the rest was my naive abuse not understanding how a turbo should be looked after (imo it done pretty well )

Matt

mine's not a VRS but a PD100 and I blew a turbo at 28K

as it was under warranty and it blew on the wrong side I got a complete new engine (all valves and 3 pistons wrecked - just came off the throttle at a ton when it blew )

the motor is now at 115K and still as good if not better than when new.

like has been said, you only hear of the ones that fail - how many PD engines are there just in the UK?

bet the % of failures is tiny in proportion

i do find that with forums sometimes *not blackballing this one* that they can come across as a negative representation of how well the cars work.....but i guess this is a community for people to share problems and that so they are likely to be posted here....