Hi all, just searching for the answer of what happened to me tonight, and came accross this site!.

Was driving home tonight in my 53 totally standard Fabia VRS, someone pulled infront of me so I slowed to about 15mph, dropped to 2nd and put my foot down and there was a 'pop'(!). Driving on, I could see smoke in my rear window (unsure of colour as it was dark), and the power was decidedly on/off if you know what i mean, jerky, had to keep it in the low revs and it wouldn't go much over 40mph without complaining (was on a dual carridgeway .... oops).

I think the turbo blew, but i'm not sure after searching here, may have been a pipe came off the turbo??. But can anyone advise where the turbo is, and how i access it to check the pipe?

Thanks!!!!

p.s. 3 days from selling it too, how cruel!!!!

Hiya.

That sounds very much like a pipe's either cracked, come off, or collapsed internally (the last isn't very likely unless the car's done mega miles, but is also a burger to find). Unsure of the exact geography of the engine bay though, except that the turbo will be on the exhaust side of the engine, which I think is the bulkhead side.