George2617 New Member 14 Member For: 13y 11m 14d Gender: Male Posted 30/03/11 11:17 PM Share Posted 30/03/11 11:17 PM HI everyone,This is properly a basic question but how many km's should the turbo go through before I should start thinking of a new turbo. My BF xr6t has done 130,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji_vs Donating Members 403 Member For: 16y 9m 3d Gender: Male Location: East Suburbs Melbourne Posted 31/03/11 12:18 AM Share Posted 31/03/11 12:18 AM Depends, if its been looked after then my guess it will last for a lot longer, oil starvation kills turbos pretty quickly so if your oil isnt changed frequently it may have a damaging effect. Just listen for unusual noises or excessive grinding on shut down or excessive play in the shaft both up and down (usually a tiny bit 1mm or so is fine) but there shouldn't be any in/out.Dont go forking out to get a turbo replaced unless you need to, they aint cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George2617 New Member 14 Member For: 13y 11m 14d Gender: Male Posted 31/03/11 02:26 AM Author Share Posted 31/03/11 02:26 AM The car has always been serviced every 15000km so that's a good thing. Is that fine for the oil to be changed or more frequently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wenier Donating Members 1,736 Member For: 15y 23d Gender: Male Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Posted 31/03/11 02:48 AM Share Posted 31/03/11 02:48 AM 15000 would be fine if it is a good quality oil and you are doing those kms in say 6-9months. Otherwise just changing the oil every 6months or 7500kms is not a bad idea.As for replacing the turbo as long as it is receiving enough oil and of good quality it should last a very long time, possibly even the life of the car. Look at trucks they run turbos and as long as they are serviced well you can get amazing kms out of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercuryXr6Turbo Member 361 Member For: 16y 4m 12d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 31/03/11 02:50 AM Share Posted 31/03/11 02:50 AM I get log book service every 15,000.... but change the oil and oil filter at the 7,500 intervals between log book services... so oil change every 7,500kms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownhornet Donating Members 124 Member For: 16y 6m 23d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 19/04/11 09:35 AM Share Posted 19/04/11 09:35 AM check the oil supply line filter (sticky on here how to do it). Mine has just ticked over 100,000km and the filter was pretty well blocked. Guessing it wouldn't have lasted too much longer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercuryXr6Turbo Member 361 Member For: 16y 4m 12d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 19/04/11 12:25 PM Share Posted 19/04/11 12:25 PM Yep I changed my oil feed line filter at 130,000 but probably should have been done earlier, mine that was replaced was fine when removed which my tuner said was probably due to the good quality oil and regular oil changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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