Alright you Hitler-loving freaks. I have a co-worker here with an interesting problem with his 2004 VW Passat 1.8t. Lately he's been noticing a serious lack of power, and an odd "whirring" coming from the engine compartment. He took it to a shop for a quick daignosis, and they tell him the turbo is going out.

Now, I'm not saying that's impossible, but I've never heard of this being a problem on the 1.8t (not to mention with <60k miles), and the fact that the turbo is practically inaccessible makes us not want to have to dig in there and cop a feel on the turbine wheel for play. I think it COULD be a boost leak (he's also noticing that it spools considerably later in the RPM-band), but I wanted to check and see if you guys had some "known-problem" areas we could check first.

KTHXBYE.

 

Is that a redneck way of spelling wiring?

 

isnt a "whir" a noise?? like "last nite there was an odd whirring from my anus"


just clearing that up

 

boost leak

 

I'm with him.

 

Totally agree, that's the first thing that came to mind. Once again, I was loking for VW owners to pipe up if they have any suggestions to KNOWN weaknesses in the charge pipng/IC so we have somewhere to begin.

Whirring as in the noise, not as in the little cooper strands that carry electrical signals.

 

I've heard of the turbos going out that early actually. It's not common, but it does happen. I'm not real sure on the pipe routing on the passat (it's different from the Jetta/GTI), but you should be able to get to the turbo pretty easy; from the top or the bottom. You'll probably have to pull the air box, but there is an inlet pipe that runs from the MAF to the turbo inlet. Pull that and check the play. Also, get under the car (might have to pull the plastic undertray) and check for oil. That could also be a problem.

Sorry for the paragraph.

 

my friend is selling a stock s4 turbo (k3 i think) its fine no shaft play, i believe it bolts up to the stock 1.8t manifold

 

no ur both wrong the turbo is going out on the car vw's are know for not starting to boost till late rpm's when the turbo goes bad

 

tell your friend that he owns a VW.. also.. tell him to buy a new car.