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Hey guys n gals.

So after some strange going ons with my car on Friday/Saturday - epc light coming on and unrecognised codes turns out the turbo needs replacing.

The turbo actuator has died! Cars only done the grand total of 3600 in 5 months

Has anyone else had this issue?

Tashy wrote: Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:48 pm Hey guys n gals.

So after some strange going ons with my car on Friday/Saturday - epc light coming on and unrecognised codes turns out the turbo needs replacing.

The turbo actuator has died! Cars only done the grand total of 3600 in 5 months

Has anyone else had this issue?

Not on my Polo GTI+, but on my Golf R, mine went at around 4500 miles/6 months. It didn't catastrophically fail, it just ceased to work, so the car drove like a naturally aspirated 2.0FSI with plenty of warning lights, but none which urged me not to drive it at all. This was the actuator also. It seems tgat they replace the whole turbo, not just the actuator. Of course it went straight in to the dealership for a replacement and the replacement has done 25k miles trouble-free.

I also had a 1.9TDI Polo in 2002 do the exact same thing - turbo died in a non catastrophic way at about 6 months old.

A doddle to swap out at the dealership if it has simply stopped working rather than blown up into an assortment of bits.

Hope this doesn't happen on the 1.0 TSI - will be very easy to notice the drop in power

monkeyhanger wrote: Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:22 pm A doddle to swap out at the dealership

Will the dealer treat it as a doddle to repair though?
I mean, my misted headlight is a doddle to repair.
I sent them photos of it misted up, it was misted up when I arrived at the dealer.
But I had to leave it with them all day for the service manager to agree it was misted and order a new one, and then arrange a second date for them to fit it.
Their 'procedures' are archaic.

Well they fix nowt, they just swap units out - probably more cost effective to do so when the labour rate is £80 an hour than persevere to fix a small part of the whole unit.

The workshops keep nothing in stock, so yes it'll be visit for diagnosis, and some very risk averse dealerships panic that they won't get reimbursed by VW (had that with Benfield refusing a claim on whiteworm wheels even though there was not a mark on them to breach the lacquer and allow moisture in. Claimed there might be stone chips in lacquer at point of discoloration but could not demonstrate - went to Pulman who ordered me new wheels immediately).

A lack of courtesy cars also mean you can't just leave them the car until it gets parts ordered in and fitted and take one of theirs in the meantime. If you do strike it lucky, the costs of the "insurance daily charge" amount to the cost of hiring a cheap small car and the excess is colossal.

I always disable stop / start on any turbo cars...