Make sure you pay a little bit towards the part and labour yourself as if you do, then you get the benefit of the skoda genuine parts warranty on the car I forget if it's 12/24 months, but not to be sniffed at. Also make sure they replace the oil feed pipe to the turbo. I'm sure they will being a main dealer, but it can't hurt to double check.

Thanks Cheezemonkhai, just had the call to say that the car is ready to be picked up, Skoda UK are paying the difference too, great result

I'll ask about the oil feed pipe, thanks for the tip.

They said that they still aren't happy with the cold starting, they too think something is a miss, but that's another thread

I checked the invoice, oil feed pipe (£22.00) was listed.

However it is still whistling :(

OK so it's not as bad as before and it only whistles when it's cold, for the first 3 or 4 minutes, once up to around 75 degrees on the temperature gauge it disappears completely.

Thing is it's still loud, louder than it should be!

So what the hell could it be, how can a brand new turbo be whistling?

Why is it now only whistling when cold?

Could I have got a dodgy reconditioned turbo?

I checked the invoice, oil feed pipe (£22.00) was listed.

However it is still whistling :(

OK so it's not as bad as before and it only whistles when it's cold, for the first 3 or 4 minutes, once up to around 75 degrees on the temperature gauge it disappears completely.

Thing is it's still loud, louder than it should be!

So what the hell could it be, how can a brand new turbo be whistling?

Why is it now only whistling when cold?

Could I have got a dodgy reconditioned turbo?

It might be a whistle or it might be now that you are looking out for the noise, the paranoia takes over and makes it louder

When mine was replaced there was still a very slight whistle but I had to listen hard to hear it. Now I dont notice it. If you are concerned then go back to the garage and ask them to take a look/listen. Maybe see if you can test drive a car of similar age/miles/engine as yours as a comparison? Maybe the pipework is leaking air on charge?

Also, all the Skoda supplied turbos are remanufactured units. The exhaust manifold is integral to it so this casing can be reused and new internals fitted. I asked if I could keep mine when they changed my turbo but they said there was a £300 surcharge on it. So no.

I thought that too, I'm now an expert on all the little noises my car makes, its amazing what you hear when your sure something isn't right!

One thing I am confident on though is that this whistle is loud, especially when I consider that it never whistled at all before the first turbo failed, even faintly.

My other Octavia (PD140 Scout) also whistles but is nice and quiet and is more often than not drowned out by the engine noise.

This whistle on the vRS is almost as loud as it was before the turbo was condemned by Skoda - but oddly only for the first few minutes after a cold start.

It's booked in on Wednesday for them to take a look at:

1) Cold start issue

2) Whistling turbo

3) Engine stalling after long motorway runs

Well the new turbo was replaced back on the 19th January. All was well, completely silent. Result!

Or so I thought, last week it started whistling again, arrrgggghhhh!

Three turbo's in as many months, what on earth is going on!?

My car has 110000 miles, the turbo is whistling not to loud and the engine it's working fine. Turbo never had been changed on this car and is still going strong. My advice is don't go over 3000 rpm if you don't need that! Change the gears between 2500-3000 and don't drive in 1st gear more then a lenght of your car! After any trip with your car, don't stop the engine straight away, leave it running in idle for at least 1 minute to cool itself down. Excuse my english!

My car has 110000 miles, the turbo is whistling not to loud and the engine it's working fine. Turbo never had been changed on this car and is still going strong. My advice is don't go over 3000 rpm if you don't need that! Change the gears between 2500-3000 and don't drive in 1st gear more then a lenght of your car! After any trip with your car, don't stop the engine straight away, leave it running in idle for at least 1 minute to cool itself down. Excuse my english!

sorry, disagree with that. Not using the full rev range occasionally will just clog things up resulting in sticking fins eventually.

sorry, disagree with that. Not using the full rev range occasionally will just clog things up resulting in sticking fins eventually.

Yes total rubbish the engine will be as tight as a duck's a*** too! You need to vary the revs and occasionally use the full range!

My car has 110000 miles, the turbo is whistling not to loud and the engine it's working fine. Turbo never had been changed on this car and is still going strong. My advice is don't go over 3000 rpm if you don't need that! Change the gears between 2500-3000 and don't drive in 1st gear more then a lenght of your car! After any trip with your car, don't stop the engine straight away, leave it running in idle for at least 1 minute to cool itself down. Excuse my english!

......"don't go over 3000rpm"? ........ so basically don't drive your car as it has been designed to be driven? Sorry mate but perhaps you should consider a non-turbo big V8 or something equally as luggy!