Hi all,

 

Unfortunately on Friday night, as I was accelerating out of a layby on the A1, my turbo went bang and thick white smoke poured out of the exhaust. I managed to pull over but that required running the engine and driving the car for another couple of minutes. I'm waiting to hear back from the mechanic at the garage it was towed to regarding possible damage to the engine (I'm concerned that there could have been further damage, based on the amount of smoke and the fact that the dipstick was completely dry when I checked it after stopping) but in the meantime his receptionist has quoted me 850+ VAT for a new turbo. She didn't say whether or not the engine had been checked to make sure it was still safe and working otherwise.

 

Has anyone experienced this before? From my research that price looks about right (although I will ask if they'll fit a reconditioned turbo) but what needs to be done before that to establish that the engine is worth fitting a turbo to? I imagine a garage wouldn't fit a new turbo to a broken engine but you never know...

 

The car in question is a 2009 Fabia 1.9 105 with 133k miles. 

All you've done is pumped the engine oil straight into the exhaust manifold via the snapped turbo shaft, since the oil warning light didn't come on then the engine should be fine.

Ah, the oil warning light did come on...and I wasn't able to shut the engine down straight away (although it wasn't long after, and it didn't run away) 

 

The price of 850 was in fact for a recon turbo but they assure me the engine is fine, so I guess I'll have to take their word 

7 minutes ago, hebdenwill said:

Ah, the oil warning light did come on...and I wasn't able to shut the engine down straight away (although it wasn't long after, and it didn't run away) 

 

The price of 850 was in fact for a recon turbo but they assure me the engine is fine, so I guess I'll have to take their word 

 

I'd expect a brand new turbo outright for that price, you shouldn't have driven it with the low oil pressure light on though, that's a real rookie mistake.

28 minutes ago, sepulchrave said:

 

I'd expect a brand new turbo outright for that price, you shouldn't have driven it with the low oil pressure light on though, that's a real rookie mistake.

I'd have thought so for the price yeah. But it's that or get it trailered at god knows what cost to somewhere else. 

 

And in reply to that - don't be a kittens. As I stated in my original post I had to carry on to be able to pull over, or it would mean stopping bang in the middle of the A1.

It's corrected the rude word I used to 'kittens', just to clarify that I didn't mean to write kittens

6 minutes ago, hebdenwill said:

It's corrected the rude word I used to 'kittens', just to clarify that I didn't mean to write kittens

 

Excellent, I should hope not.