Thread: D4 Turbos

Unless you're treating it like a racing car, just turn it off as a normal car.

Originally Posted by Scouse

Unless you're treating it like a racing car, just turn it off as a normal car.

Thanks Scott. Why is that, better design, better materials in the turbos?

It's the case with all the turbo diesels that I know of.

Turbo timers are not required for regular driving in 99% of cases anyway - I wouldn't go as far to say that they have a **** factor but.....
In theory they might be useful if you stop driving suddenly after a hard freeway run but how often does that happen? Slowing down & driving normally for a few minutes would be all that's needed.

IM not familiar with the D4 turbos, but most turbos with water cooled turbos you dont need to have a turbo timer.
Turbos without the water cooling can burn the oil withing the turbo bearings if shut down without a cooldown period.

Steve.

just drive it normally, unless you have glowing turbos its not needed to let it idle, oil this days are very very good, and the engine design are getting pretty good, i wouldnt worry,

just enjoy what a great car you have

The D4 is my third turbo car. All have had water cooled turbo's so no real need for idle down time.

However....

If I had been giving my XR6 Turbo a bit of a hiding then I would let it settle for 2 minutes before shutting down.

The Mini Cooper D and the D4 I just shut them down. Since the XR6 I have got into a habit of a steady run on the last few k's of most trips. This helps temps to settle as well.

Thanks all.

Regards,

Kev.

Turbo timers are illegal and will void your insurance policies as the argument goes your elaving the vehicle running wihtout being behind the wheel and it can jump into gear and crash into something or kill someone.

Just the normal driving slowly after any prolonged period of high speed operation is sufficient to cool the thing down to normal parameters if your worried about it just let it idle for 30 seconds before you switch it off when you stop somewhere.