Not my car but we sold a 12 plate Audi Q5 at work a couple of months ago,

 

Think its a 2.0tdi as its a 4 pot common rail diesel,

 

Had it recovered back to work this week with suspected turbo failure,

 

I stripped turbo off it today and turbo has completly **** itself and snapped shaft through middle of turbo, now at 18k i find this really bad,

 

Is this just a one off or is this a common issue with these engines

Wont Audi honour that if its been serviced and with such low mileage?

I don't know, not had much to do with that side of things as i had a couple of days off back end of last week when it was recovered in,

 

In theory i think they should altho im not sure of its history but 18k's barely its first service

Does sound like a beer o clock turbo got put in that. But equally... its not beyond possible the owner was "fording some floods" recently, or it was in one parked...

I'd suspect a casting failure, but need to see good quality images of the break.

If some never failed the Replacement Turbo industry would fail, VW Replacement Parts Division would be rather lacking in employees.

I bet that VW had some replacement turbos available for quick delivery.

 

The New Brand Director of Skoda UK would be the man to know about the Failure Rate of VW Parts, that was what he was doing 

just before taking the helm at Skoda UK.

No excuse now for Skoda UK to say, 'never heard of that before', because the Boss Man knows all about Warranty Claims on parts.

Not just a Salesperson.

It's only a Mean time to failure that industies work on. Some bits go early some last longer than expected. This chap is just unfortunate.