Turbo seals?

[Rammy76]

Stood adjacent the A1 with poorly car. As I accelerated off the slip road prior to this I changed gear and when I dipped the clutch the engine went flat out and a load of smoke came out the back. Luckily I got it stopped after 10 secs.

The car is a PD 130 Passat on 130000 miles.

Does this sound like a new turbo or something worse?

Bad start to the day

[ikarl]

possible runaway?

did you have to stall the car the get it to stop or did removing the key work?

[Crusoe]

Turbo gone and oil burning going past the turbo seals, as long as there is oil left it should be ok with a clean out of the pipe work, new seals and maybe a new or refurb turbo.

[Rammy76]

Yeah definitely "runaway" as I had to bring it to a halt in 6th gear.

The thing is, I've got it home now so not sure what I should do i.e. put it on ebay as spares or repair or get it fixed?

I've got a feeling it's going to cost a lot

[Crusoe]

coleague had his turbo go on a similar engines audi A4, was about £600 for a reconditioned turbo and all the pipes etc.