Woke up all happy this morning after spending the first night in the new house, driving into work the stop light n oil light comes on, and a nasty noise from the engine. called the RAC and it sounds like my turbos Fooked, what a moving in present, so looks like the money i had saved for new stuff will be going on the Car, happy happy f***** joy. well p***ed off with this car now, its been one thing after another the past couple off weeks.

How olds the car? BlackRat got his replaced under warranty at just under 3 years old

Mines out of warrenty unfortunatly.

Just had a phone call from a dealer thru parts gateway who said they can send me a new turbo out tommorow £420 and gave me the turbo details so guna ring round aload of places see what the crack is, if thats cheap. the guy was a renault specialist aswell, asked him about larger turbos, tunning the engine and he said the 1.9dci 120bhp engine is kack and under a lota strain at 120bhp and said that he wouldnt tune it, apparently the only diesels worth tunning are vw seat(which are a vw) and audi. good to know, lol.

Just spoke to renault, the bearings in the turbo had gone, theres oil leaked into the intercooler and exhast and some seals and stuff need replacing. they quoted me 1350ish to fix with turbo priced at 580+vat, so i told them how much ide seen one for and they said they'd do it for 1150. thats for a new turbo, intercooler, etc.

cant be bothered with the hasstle so just told them to do it, should have it back for tommorrow afternoon.

holy carp mate, thats not nice :( i feel sorry for you. How many miles on the clock?

see if you can uprate the turbo whilst its ****ed and need replacing :) thats what id to ;)

58K apparently it a common problem with laguna megane 1.9 turbos, there $h1t. when they get to around 60-80k there likely to go according to a turbo specialist place.

and the engines are a bit ropey to start with under a bit to much pressure running standard boost, was asking about putting bigger turbos etc on, the guy steared me well clear just said the engines are p1$$ weak bottom end being $h1te.

the guy was a renault specialist aswell, asked him about larger turbos, tunning the engine and he said the 1.9dci 120bhp engine is kack and under a lota strain at 120bhp

Well he aint much of a specialist if that's what he thinks, he's talking complete cack.

The 120bhp 1.9 is easily good for 150bhp even with just a tuning box.

u tell em bob :)

Well he aint much of a specialist if that's what he thinks, he's talking complete cack.

The 120bhp 1.9 is easily good for 150bhp even with just a tuning box.

He wasnt saying that you couldnt get 150bhp out of it, he rekoned i could of seen a good bit more with what i was talking to him about, but the engines are **** weak and unreliable at that sort of power and not very reliable, and when i do a good few miles a year, would be a bit unpractical.

best person to speak to is paul from RS-tuning. might be worth getting his input?

He wasnt saying that you couldnt get 150bhp out of it, he rekoned i could of seen a good bit more with what i was talking to him about, but the engines are **** weak and unreliable at that sort of power and not very reliable, and when i do a good few miles a year, would be a bit unpractical.

Not much of a specialist then was he! A lot of the bits in that lump are the same or very similar to the 225 bottom end. Which goes over 300bhp quite happily.

Cheers
M

i hope i don't regret saying this (hope I don't curse myself now! lol), but I've had my 120 DCI remapped by RS Tuning (about December 06) to about 150bhp (not been on RR so this is a guess) and I do 25k miles a year, and not had any problems with the turbo, still goes well and she's done 73k now!

I found this not sure if this is the right one or not
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Renault-Clio-Espace-Megane-Laguna-Turbo-Charger-M_W0QQitemZ250134818586QQihZ015QQcategoryZ10410QQr dZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

Bloody hell mate, the same thing happened to mine. Although mine was in warranty by another couple of months !!! Thank god it went when it did.

Renault said that it looked like starvation of oil. Due to it being serviced every 18K. It had only done about 32K miles. So was due a service at 36k.

I found this not sure if this is the right one or not
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Renault-Clio-Espace-Megane-Laguna-Turbo-Charger-M_W0QQitemZ250134818586QQihZ015QQcategoryZ10410QQr dZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

well it cant be that one, renault told me it was 580 + vat, then i told them id found the same turbo brand new for £420 inc vat and delivery so they dropped the price by £200 robbing b4$t4rds.

Cheers anyway tho mate

Bloody hell mate, the same thing happened to mine. Although mine was in warranty by another couple of months !!! Thank god it went when it did.

Renault said that it looked like starvation of oil. Due to it being serviced every 18K. It had only done about 32K miles. So was due a service at 36k.

Oh its a sickner, as i say just moved in to new house like the other day, n the money was for a new TV dinning table and bits, bloody typical isnt it, always happens at worse possible time, at least im only 3 mile away from work now, not 50, so iv been biking into work.

I've just been nerdy and searched re, 1.9 dci turbo failures, it might help

link below

http://www.parkers.co.uk/advice/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18664

Sorry to hear about your troubles, good luck with sorting it out.

have a word with this guy he will sort you out .


http://pwebdesign.brinkster.net/dougsport/about.asp

Gutted for you mate! :(