Evening people wondering if you can help me out. This evening whilst coming home from work I experienced a problem with my 06 plate vRS. After a slight bootfull in second gear after being flashed through a junction I seemed to loose all power.

I gently drove the car the remainder of the distance home (1/4mile) and parked up. Whilst driving along even from low rev's there is a whining noise which is rather loud, there seems to be very little power aswell. I've had a nosey under the car and can't seem to see any boost pipe's loose anywhere.

I went under the car whilst it was running and whilst gently reving the engine I can seem to 'feel' the whine in the turbo housing and actuator.

Does this sound like the turbo has let go or could it be something else wrong?

Video link

http://s264.beta.photobucket.com/user/south001/media/20121221_173142.mp4.html

Forgot the mention, the whine pretty much starts when the car is initially first started, then settles down to nothing and as soon as you blip the throttle it comes bacl

I had a similar problem on my car and thought it was a boost pipe. Then the turbo went bang. Don't drive it anywhere and get it towed to a garage, otherwise it may go pop and wreck your engine like mine. Just been quoted 3k to fix it

If you suspect the turbo has blown then do not start the car, all the broken bits could be sucked into the internals = very expensive fix.

Have abgood look at your pipe sounds more like one has come off to me. Undertray off and check lower pipe to intercooler and the pipe to the turbo it self.

Been underneath mate no undertray on the car so can clearly see it. checked all piping and it all seems fairly rigid/in place.

Did it make any noise when it was spooling back down?

As said, i wouldnt start it and i would get the turbo looked at.

Yeah it still makes a noise when spooling down. cars not been ran or moved since last night

If it sounds like a police siren on the spool down then its fecked.

Do you have breakdown cover with home call out? if so they will tow it to a garage of your choice

Aye does kinda sound like that, good job my old crashed car is coming back tomorrow, will be able to salvage the turbo off that for this one as I can't afford a brand new one atm.

Mate should be able to recover it to his garage or get my dad to tow me there, not too far.

Ohh I get to use my pointless tow strap then which I've been meaning to remove since I bought the car haha

Managed to sort a vid out of the sound, does this really sound like a turbo failure?I'm a tad unsure now if I'm honest.....

http://s264.beta.photobucket.com/user/south001/media/20121221_173142.mp4.html

It doesn't sound healthy to be honest :(

Aye indeed it doesnt, towing it upto my mates shortly to get under and get it stripped down

I don't think there's any rhyme or reason as to how you 'know' if your turbo is going. Although the 'police siren' is a fairly common tell tale, mine let go with no warning, no noise, no screeching, no whining, doing nothing more than getting up to speed in a 30 limit 300yds from my house.

If it sounds like a police siren on the spool down then its fecked.

Care to backup that statement with some proof?

never heard the siren noise before - doesn't sound good :(

i had a vw golf turbo blow on me with a similar sound, more like cats in a blender a loss of power and lots of grey smoke it filled the intercooler and cat with oil.and i think your,s is heading towards similars woes.

For what it takes to check the turbo for play and check the intercooler / pipe work for excessive oil I'm surprised more people don't do it!

Would put a lot of people's minds at rest.

Turned out I had half a blade missing off the intake side of the turbo