kidtsi
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- Feb 17, 2009
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Laredo,
Texas
This is old news.
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Only update I have as of now.... Blocked from their FB page right after posting a link to this thread.
Also, Austin from turbo lab and Ian have both deleted me as friends on FB.
I'm tired of seeing vendors bashed when turbo's fail and who the heck knows why it failed, then when they don't get a free replacement it's bash city.
You wouldn't be upset if the company didn't honor their "warranty"
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A warranty on a turbo is very broad, unless you can pinpoint that the cause of failure was them then hell no I wouldn't be mad at them for not giving me another turbo.
Think about it, people buy turbos all the time and then install them on some rigged ass cars with any number of things that could cause a premature turbo failure, then they call up who they bought the turbo from and blame them. If they gave free turbos/rebuilds to everyone and their mom who's turbo blew for whatever the hell reason then they would not have a business.
The same type's of "warranties" go hand in hand with pretty much any performance part.
Edit: A response on the original post on FB from them said they offered a rebuild at the cost of parts. What happened with that?
-12 oil drain line....
-4an oil feed line from OFH no restrictor
- did not smoke at all till failure resulting in no boost.
-I MEASURED PRESSURE AT THE TURBO AT IDLE AND AT ALL CONDITIONS DURING A DRIVE CYCLE TO MAKE SURE IT WAS GETTING PROPER OIL.
I understand many turbo failures are user error. They keep saying its the filter I run in line... If that was the problem, why did it not show up at all when I was testing after it? The filter was clean because I took it off to inspect it when replacing it after failure.
No restrictor on holset = very bad idea.
Not when I measured the pressure the turbocharger was getting... Plus, they said it starved of oil, which I know a restriction would have prevented!
Guess reading the entire original post is over rated? I measured it at not only idle but under all driving conditions.