Thread: Turbo Failure

These are the BorgWarner factory Australian dealer and repairer.

http://www.turboaustralia.com.au/inside.borgwarner.ews

Just looking at prices of cartridges/cores on other Australian sites they are about 2 to 3 times the price here compared to the UK. Re-con turbo,s in the UK with 2 year warranty are around $600 + freight. The biggest dilemma or question is warranty for the unit and fitting ??? Once off they are relatively easy to work with !

Laurie

Has the silicon pipe option been explored? There is a UK company selling an intercooler pipe kit for the TDV8 which including postage is considerably cheaper than the OEM pipes I can get anywhere else. I did have a silicon pipe come off a TD5 once, I think this was more my fault than the pipes. Are silicon pipes more prone to coming off? This would of course lead to turbo over spooling, real bad!!!!

Cheers Marty

After looking back through a few threads on FFRR forum, it seems 300,000km is about when turbos fail. Although there are a few reports on various sites of others failing a lot earlier.

However, the motors are normally ok unless a foreign object is ingested or it loses all its oil.

[QUOTE=Laurie;2695649]Graeme
This is the link to the BW bearing setup, I couldn't get the cut-away diagrams to load !


Design and Function of a Turbocharger - Bearing system | BorgWarner Turbo Systems


Surely it would be safe to assume Ford would have required a roller/ball bearing turbo in a motor built from 2006, over a journal bearing turbo.

Ball bearing turbos are fast spin-up but an oil bearing turbo has a much longer life and is not prone to instant bearing failure.

Thanks Graeme. So failures could indicate these are ball bearing turbos, maybe fitted to satisfy a performance objective. Hopefully we will get a look at Chris's old turbos.

I would not expect a ball-bearing turbo in this application - a different story for a high revving, high performance petrol engine. LR made lots of noises about the TD5's turbo shaft floating on oil for longevity.

Thanks, I thought journal bearing turbos where out of favour. I fitted a Garrett ball bearing turbo to the 4bd1 Perentie about 10 yrs ago. It does spool up quick, very little lag.