Friday, March 24, 2006

 

turbo charger

Dan the mechanic says my catalytic converter is fine but that my turbo charger needs to be replaced. Something about it not spinning right. I have to get the part thru the dealer because nobody else has the part yet because it's still considered under warranty to third party part places. I called around to different dealers and got different wholesale pricing. Cost to the dealers is about $1,300 (one of the parts guys mistakenly told me the cost). List is $1740. I finally got one for $1451. Dan will install it, hopefully on Tuesday, when he gets the part.


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Degraded Turbo Fan Posted by Picasa

Comments:
There are lots of places to buy turbos for passats.

Just go to one of the discussion forums
http://www.passatworld.com/
or
http://forums.vwvortex.com/
and you will find tons of places to buy a new turbo.
 
Make sure it is your turbo, many times they only need to be cleaned because of the sooty exhaust, What oil are you using?
 
That's definitely a "degraded" turbo fan. Something got into your intake and beat the hell out of it.
 
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