Maintenance & Repair 4 min read
Turbo failure symptoms explained: what actually kills a turbocharger before it fails
A customer brings in a 2.0 TDI with a whistle at 2500 rpm that wasn't there last month, a puff of blue-grey smoke on start-up, and a boost gauge that won't hold steady above 1.2 bar. Nine times out of ten that's not a turbo that's failed outright,…