right basically my turbo has had a awful wistle, then car lost all boost and cutout. had turbo off and the shaft has snapped! what would have caused this? could i just buy a new shaft and rebuild the turbo or? cheers aaron

Will need a new turbo, usually either poor mapping and/or oil starvation will cause the shaft to break.

its totaly standard bud and on 48thousand

I'd be looking at the oil feed pipe and service history.

Il have a look tonight and go from there

Could it be down to a lot of short journeys in the early mornings of about 3 miles without letting it warm up before?

Doubt it.