My drivers side turbo went pop on Saturday @ 107K miles. Oh well I got away with it for 10 years of ownership

Trying to get quotes for repair at the moment and just had the first garage say will only replace the turbos as a pair and only use genuine new borg warner

Anyone got any advice do I need to do both? Are the refurbished turbos worth looking at? I know its a big job and needs body off to do. What price would be reasonable?

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My main interest in your post is that I guess that, more sooner than later, I'll have to have this job done, I can't speak with any knowledge to answer your question, but my gut feeling is that if you're going to have the body off, you should attempt to do everything you can afford to do. Certainly I'd do both turbos - if ones gone the other cant be far behind. There's probably other stuff that could be looked at???

I believe it is supposed to be around a day job to remove and replace the body, so labour costs would be anything between about £500 and £1500 just for that bit. You don't want to have to do that again in a hurry. Robin
2008 Range Rover Sport TDV8
Gone:
Jaguar S-Type V8 4.2 Sport
MGZTT 190 2.5

Haven't had to replace mine yet but have spoken about it with my indie & definitely replace both at the same time he estimated that around the 100,000 miles mark is the average if looked after some may last longer & some may go sooner I'm presently on 93,000 miles and have £3,000 tucked away when required.

2007 RRS TDV8

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At that age, I'd just replace both and be done with it. Be very annoying to get one done and then have the other one fail a few thousand miles later. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

Thanks all, car has just left me on the back of a transporter to the garage.

Going with both turbos replaced for new units and hope that I can get another 100k out of them. He is going to do the front active anti roll bar bushes for me while body is off as just a 15min job and the current ones are squeaking

Still cheaper than buying a replacement car and have done so much to this over the years of ownership it feels the right thing to do TDV8 now with extra grin factor thanks to Alive Tunning: Gone but not forgotten

am a bit curious, why do turbos cost so much? is it because its a body off job and that takes a while? i mean after the bodies off i assume you just bolt off the old turbos and bolt on new ones? am completely oblivious to how the jobs done so feel free to treat me like a moron

Good question. I am sure the experts will come back with an answer, but I guess and element of it will be just that its a Range Rover! Robin
2008 Range Rover Sport TDV8
Gone:
Jaguar S-Type V8 4.2 Sport
MGZTT 190 2.5

Would be worth checking the condition of the Active roll bar pipework too when the body is off. 2010 TDV8 - current - my first RRS, loving it so far......
2005 Cayenne S - handling defied physics and what a sound, so sod the mpg!
1995 Disco TDI- surprisingly reliable, shame about the peeling dash & other trim
Lots of other non 4X4's in between times.........

mgrover wrote:

am a bit curious, why do turbos cost so much? is it because its a body off job and that takes a while? i mean after the bodies off i assume you just bolt off the old turbos and bolt on new ones? am completely oblivious to how the jobs done so feel free to treat me like a moron

For a grand each I think I'd use the opportunity to upgrade :p

Upgrade? 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

Yeah I'd assume some better turbo to stick on :p

Car back from AJ Land Rover and all good Lets hope the new turbos last as long as first pair


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