Quoted £1500 for turbo repair (Touran TDI 2.0 BKD)
Discussion
Hi,
Greetings to the forum, and thanks for reading.
Bought a Touran earlier this year, to discover after purchase there was a bit of oil in the coolant.
In the past few weeks/days it has been losing coolant to the extent that the coolant level warning comes on after about 3 hours of motorway driving.
On route to holiday, experienced a loss of power, and saw lots of white smoke in rear view. Found a bit of brown mayonaise under the oil cap. Got recovered to holiday destination, as it was 20 minutes away, while home was 130 miles. Have now realised why people get recovered home as AA don't do second recovery and it's £400 to get recovered home now.
So looking at local independent. He has inspected the fault codes with VAG Com, and come up with not much, then on further inspection, reported that the turbo 'has destroyed itself'. He has now quoted £1500 for repair as follows:
£800 + vat for new turbo
5 hours labour for removal and refit
1 hours labour for re-fit of hp oil lines to turbo
labour charged at £50 (no vat on labour)
When asked about further more economical options, he gave a negative view of recon turbos, but did say he might be able to do a rebuild depending on what he finds when cracking the old turbo open.
He quoted:
350 ish for new parts, bearings etc possibly for the re-build plus half an hour of labour
600 ish for a recon turbo
While he sounds honest and knowledgeable, my concerns are that I read that the stock labour for a turbo refit on a BKD is 3 hours not 6, and I've seen reports of recon turbos around for £350 ish.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
JD
Greetings to the forum, and thanks for reading.
Bought a Touran earlier this year, to discover after purchase there was a bit of oil in the coolant.
In the past few weeks/days it has been losing coolant to the extent that the coolant level warning comes on after about 3 hours of motorway driving.
On route to holiday, experienced a loss of power, and saw lots of white smoke in rear view. Found a bit of brown mayonaise under the oil cap. Got recovered to holiday destination, as it was 20 minutes away, while home was 130 miles. Have now realised why people get recovered home as AA don't do second recovery and it's £400 to get recovered home now.
So looking at local independent. He has inspected the fault codes with VAG Com, and come up with not much, then on further inspection, reported that the turbo 'has destroyed itself'. He has now quoted £1500 for repair as follows:
£800 + vat for new turbo
5 hours labour for removal and refit
1 hours labour for re-fit of hp oil lines to turbo
labour charged at £50 (no vat on labour)
When asked about further more economical options, he gave a negative view of recon turbos, but did say he might be able to do a rebuild depending on what he finds when cracking the old turbo open.
He quoted:
350 ish for new parts, bearings etc possibly for the re-build plus half an hour of labour
600 ish for a recon turbo
While he sounds honest and knowledgeable, my concerns are that I read that the stock labour for a turbo refit on a BKD is 3 hours not 6, and I've seen reports of recon turbos around for £350 ish.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
JD
Thanks for the replies.
Regarding the use of VAG Com, he was looking for a turbo under or overboost initially to see if investigating the main failure was in the direction of turbo or head gasket.
As the turbo is broken, we're assuming there is not a head gasket failure at the same moment, but maybe this has also happened. Knowing I had coolant loss and oil in the water, seeing the mayonaise around the oil cap lead me to think this was a head gasket failure at first. I don't know how he found that the turbo was destroyed without opening it. Perhaps you can look into the manifold and see?
Regarding the oil, a full oil change was mentioned. The car is on long life, and he's quoted £65 for a full oil change. Could the wrong oil type being put in have gummed up the oil feed to the turbo? It does seem as if there has been oil starvation, and it's true he hasn't said he knows why it happened in the first place.
I have no way of knowing if this chap is legit unfortunately, so I am at his mercy. He hasn't started taking things apart yet, so it seems fair that he hasn't diagnosed the cause. I just wanted to see if what he has said rings true before getting to start work.
Regarding the use of VAG Com, he was looking for a turbo under or overboost initially to see if investigating the main failure was in the direction of turbo or head gasket.
As the turbo is broken, we're assuming there is not a head gasket failure at the same moment, but maybe this has also happened. Knowing I had coolant loss and oil in the water, seeing the mayonaise around the oil cap lead me to think this was a head gasket failure at first. I don't know how he found that the turbo was destroyed without opening it. Perhaps you can look into the manifold and see?
Regarding the oil, a full oil change was mentioned. The car is on long life, and he's quoted £65 for a full oil change. Could the wrong oil type being put in have gummed up the oil feed to the turbo? It does seem as if there has been oil starvation, and it's true he hasn't said he knows why it happened in the first place.
I have no way of knowing if this chap is legit unfortunately, so I am at his mercy. He hasn't started taking things apart yet, so it seems fair that he hasn't diagnosed the cause. I just wanted to see if what he has said rings true before getting to start work.
Gassing Station | Audi, Seat, Skoda & VW | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff