Hi

 

Turbo blew on my 2007 octy 2 1.9tdi, thought it was easy since the vag mechanic had several turbos in stock, but came to find out my skoda has the type that the turbo and manifoild is all in one cast. I see for my car theres a new turbo core aviable, i assume this is ment for my style turbo since it comes without housing and everything?

 

Has anyone else delt with these type of turbos? is it fairly easy to replace the turbocore?

 

Thanks in advance for ur help

Check online for videos showing the procedure.

 

I suspect you will have to remove the manifold due to space constraints.

 

What makes you sure the turbo has failed?

Was doing 2nd gear, throttled up, a weird popping sound, lost almost all power, didnt know what happened so drove it to the first place i could get off the road, hear a weird rattling noise, started smoking like crazy, oil light came on, turned engine off. Checked the tailpipe, tons of oil there.

 

as far as i know thats right, you have to remove the manifoild.

I missunderstood the mechanic, i thought i had an oddball that the turbo didnt come apart from the manifoild, but later i was told thats completely normal on these cars.

Im thinkering with the idea of doing this myself since im not really in a rush to fix it, but my octavia is a 4x4 and from what im told its really a cumbersome job on these.

 

Is it really that bad?

 

 

Do not automatically assume it's the turbo.

 

First pop the turbo inlet pipe off and check for play in the compressor.

If the turbo has failed catastrophically then the VNT mechanism and the turbo housing can get pretty chewed up so I would remove and assess before chancing a core.