Hiya, It seems my turbo's given up the ghost on my 1.9tdi.

Its been making a siren sound for some time now and now the overboost fault is happening with it going into limp mode more offen.

I've followed the main post about cleaning the turbo and this didnt do anything. I popped it down the garage to see if they could sort it and they say its knackered.

They've offered me a brand new or recon turbo with £200 being the difference between the two. Would you get the recon one?

Recon will be new parts using the old casing.

Tbh I'd prob pay the extra £200 for a brand new unit

G

There's nothing wrong with a recon turbo, in ract 90 + % of turbos for sale are recon including the ones from the dealers. The company I trust the most is vage uk not the cheapest but the best.

Turbo for sale here http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/264259-fabia-vrs-enginegearboxturbo-for-sale/

Golf G60's are prone to having the supercharger blowing up once in a while and it was almost seen as standard to have them serviced at least every 40/45,000 miles; as said above, you either send off the charger to a company and they strip the internals and send it back for refitting or drop your car off with them at slightly more expense. Depends all on the company doing it; you can normally find out online who've got a decent reputation for good or bad rebuilds.

Obviously superchargers and turbos work on different principals but both spin and force air, but also something to possibly think about is that it was quite common on g60's to get the rebuild company to thin/streamline or 'porting' the inlet & outlet vanes/chambers to increase the amount of air that the charger can flow thus increasing its efficiency and overall boost levels. The theory is the same as putting the edge of a knife in a windtunnel as opposed to the handle: the air passes better because there's a smaller surface for it to impact upon. The only downside was the same as any engine management chip: factory chips will encompass ALL aspects of the car, fuel economy, etc. for all types of driver, whereas you can get a custom made one to give you better economy, more power, etc. VW made the vanes thicker to make them overly strong for reliability: thinner vanes are more likely to break cos there's obviously less metal & less strength, and there might have been broken ones but I can't remember ever hearing this happen it after having this modification; VW were probably quite rightly just playing safe.

Again, I'm only guessing that this theory is the same for both types of charger, but if it is, it's highly likely you could always get the company rebuilding it to do the above mod if you wanted.

Also known people to smooth the internals of their charger whilst it was being stripped; deburring anything and making every angle or corner round so the air has minimal disruption to flow and effectively making it 'race spec'.

Aahh, the G60 was a fantastic engine.

I am fairly sure TurboTechnics do this mod to their re-con Turbos. I am on my 3rd turbo, 1st one was the one that came on the car lasted 130,000kms the 2nd was a genuine warranty replacement that too only lasted 130,000kms and the 3rd one,the one that is still on the car, is a TurboTechnics re-con unit and today my car has 537,000kms............do the math!!!!