This guy posted earlier today in a FB post about his failed turbos, when I asked how they failed he said "turbo siren and no boost" I asked about boost leaks or vacuum lines or if he had pulled the turbos. He would not expand anymore than that. Think he might be jumping the gun about his failed turbos.
Mine are still going strong, it does drive me a little crazy when people want to know every other week how my turbos are doing. I've said this before and will say it again, If my turbos fail I will post it here! So far these seem to be a great cheap solution with great performance, especially when the value of these cars continue to drop. Now we just need someone to start manufacturing quality cheap index 12 injectors, blows my mind how much those cost now.
Well good thing you posted here.
Before bashing me for lack of post I have to say the only reason I got these turbos, was finding this thread and no actual reports of failing.
I thought it is my duty to report back that I had them installed and failed.
My point is to find out whether I can fix them or if I should go another route.
They make no boost. All vacuum solenoids and lines are new. I had spent months looking for a boost leak that was not there (it was actually the stock intake with sport filter, restricting air, as I only got DCI's later and had a boost drop at about 5500 rpm) so boost leak is out of the question.
They make the classical siren sound and build no boost. when i unplug the vacuum canister there is no more turbo siren sound, nor any boost.
That has led me to the obvious conclusion that the sound is from the turbo (aside from the obvious sound).
I wish the culprit was different. The problem is I cannot pull them off and wait for weeks/months as I am in europe, to get other turbos, therefore I must order something else or find out if they are fixable or not, before pulling the car apart again, for obvious labor cost reasons. I did not buy 850 usd turbos just to spend another 500 now to investigate if they are done...i would rather buy pure for 1900 and just get them installed... moreover the car shop said they cannot take them down and store the car till I get new turbos as they have no place for that.
Will resort to getting the dps of and look for play and oil as wedge instructed, but before that I thought I would go back to the thread that presented the turbos in the first place without getting scoulded

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