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Quote: Originally posted by mattlad on 13/10/2015

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Quote: Originally posted by petra8315 on 13/10/2015thanks for your replies, had new turbo fitted as other one was whistleing very loud and was told by Midland turbo's of Bulwell nottingham, that it was over boosting, had a local garage fit me a reconditioned one from midand turbo and seems to smoke more now,it s3eems very powerfull and only smokes when under load and the turbo kicks in, but its embarrassing to drive it and feel like i am lookig at the rear view mirror all the time, and driving like a nun

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Good question mattlad, i have booked it in to the garage were

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We had a Vauxhall Vivaro van in with a blown turbo, the oil seals had gone and in spite of cleaning out the intercooler and inlet manifold it took ages for the smoke to clear.

Another vehicle we had in was an Alfa Romeo 147 that came in with a complaint that it was whistling, in that case it had a blown turbo that turned out to be a symptom of another fault that turned out to be a split hose, causing the turbo to fail.

Moral of the story? Was the turbo failure a cause or a symptom?

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