Turbo - new or reconditioning recommendations

[Julz]

Afternoon all! The saga of my lemon of a Mini continues! It hasn't moved it at least a month as it basically had a full on tantrum, lost all power, doesn't want to start etc etc!! Anyway after some gentle coaxing and a bit of tinkering she now starts and will drive but not too convincingly. Our first thoughts are that the turbo has gone due to coking/lack of oil so looking for recommendations for a new or reconditioned one or where to get mine reconditioned, then hopefully she'll be driveable to get to a garage for a replacement engine! Such a joy, almost makes my French car seem easy to live with!! [emoji849]

[a11y]

Whereabouts are you?

We had new turbo internals fitted in our VW T5 campervan by The Turbo Guy, southside of Glasgow: http://www.theturboguy.com. Cost for the work exc removal/fitting was <£300 from memory - I just went for that rather than fanny around with various attempted fixes (was sticky turbo vanes on variable vane turbo due to EGR). That was 2 years ago and not a problem since.

[Julz]

Thanks Ally, been doing some research and that was top of my list to try. Getting a compression tester tomorrow and have a guy who says he can replace the internals on it so slowly moving forwards, bank balance moving backwards! [emoji1303]

[Julz]

Compression test showed zero compression on cylinder 2 and 112-115 on the other 3!!

[Mon the fish]

That ain't the turbo then...

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[Julz]

...which is why we did the compression test!! [emoji849]

[badwolf340]

Compression test showed zero compression on cylinder 2 and 112-115 on the other 3!!
Did you then carry out a wet test ?

[Julz]

That's tomorrow's job, car runs ok (by comparison!) on the road when the revs are higher but is struggling on low revs! Will do the wet test tomorrow morning and see if that can narrow things down at all. Cylinder 2 is the one that had the broken spark plug in it so we weren't surprised!!

[badwolf340]

That's tomorrow's job, car runs ok (by comparison!) on the road when the revs are higher but is struggling on low revs! Will do the wet test tomorrow morning and see if that can narrow things down at all. Cylinder 2 is the one that had the broken spark plug in it so we weren't surprised!!
Let us know how you get on

[Julz]

Will do! Regardless it's sounding like an expensive repair! Might be keeping her longer than originally planned! [emoji38]

[MINI William]

At least your narrowing things down.