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Offline Maurits Vos

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16G go "Bye-bye"
« on: February 11, 2010, 01:05:28 am »
So just this Sunday, while driving home at night. I was leaving from a buddy's place. I brought up the RPM and slipped the clutch as usual to drive off. We heard a POP noise and shitloads of smoke puked out through the exhaust and some from the under-hood of the car.
Hadn't wrapped my head around what exactly it was, but I had a massive feeling it was turbo related. My initial thoughts were coolant. The smoke has and oily smell however sweet as well. Head gasket? Not likely. The engine itself idled perfectly. Started up fine. Didn't overheat.

Anyway, the car's back in the damn garage again. In pieces, again. I pulled the turbo off tonight and as I suspected, it was the turbo. It was oil. Enjoy what comes next...
01 - Turbine side


02 - Turbine wheel? Wait.. what wheel? It's fucking gone!


03 - Waste gate drenched in oil.


04 - Compressor wheel chip. Very nice... /sarcasm.. or maybe not.


05 - O2 Sensor.. or whatever was left of the probe.


06 - Nasty nicks in the O2 housing. The turbine wheel definitely went through here.


As you can see... The whole turbo fucked itself.. I'm going to call ADP, the company I had rebuild the turbo last year in Vancouver and see what they're going to say or do about this.
I'm sure the wheel or whatever's left of it is hiding in my exhaust along with the other 4.8L of oil. I'm not bothered to take it out as it should in theory only go one way.

Yeah.. So.. I'm really happy with my DSM right now. //sarcasm for real this time.
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Offline Rob Armstrong

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2010, 01:36:41 am »
Maybe your car read your sig and said FU I am done.. Talk shit about me will ya.. I will show him. :-\

That sucks man. I hope they help you fix it, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
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Offline CamWeiss

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2010, 01:59:30 am »
Shitty deal, Maurits.

At least you don't have bits of compressor wheel scattered throughout your motor.
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Offline Richard Steger

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2010, 11:17:55 am »
Well, look at the bright side like Cam said, a turbo failure in the best possible direction, out the exhaust... I know dsm's still rule the awd bang for buck world, but man stuff like this is putting a wet towel on my enthusiasm for getting back into one  :-\   I feel your pain..
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Offline Maurits Vos

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2010, 11:24:16 am »
It's still under warranty. It was rebuilt May last year.
Back to Vancouver it goes. We'll see if it gets covered. I can't send them the wheel since it's somewhere in my exhaust. I'm not about to go hunting for it.
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Offline Brett Haviland

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2010, 12:19:37 pm »
yikes, i wonder where that piece of compresser wheel went!

Hopfully not through the intercooler and find its way into a combustion chamber!!
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Offline Yas Jandric

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2010, 05:21:29 pm »
Bad luck Maurits.At least you got few years out of your dsm. I didnt even get one night out of mine :(
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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2010, 06:34:27 pm »
Quote from: Brett Haviland on February 11, 2010, 12:19:37 pm
yikes, i wonder where that piece of compresser wheel went!

Hopfully not through the intercooler and find its way into a combustion chamber!!

other end of the turbo bud

never seen that before....
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Offline Richard Clark

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2010, 09:55:57 pm »
Quote from: Matt Fredrikson on February 11, 2010, 06:34:27 pm
Quote from: Brett Haviland on February 11, 2010, 12:19:37 pm
yikes, i wonder where that piece of compresser wheel went!

Hopfully not through the intercooler and find its way into a combustion chamber!!

other end of the turbo bud

never seen that before....

There's a chip out of the compressor wheel, take a look at the pic.
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Offline Maurits Vos

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2010, 02:10:31 am »
Quote from: Matt Fredrikson on February 11, 2010, 06:34:27 pm
other end of the turbo bud

never seen that before....

Pic 04. That's the chip Brett's talking about.

By the fucking way... I took my exhaust off tonight and heard some *rattle*clank*

If you wanna see what came out... CLICK HERE

It's preeetttyy cool.




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Offline Rob Armstrong

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2010, 01:46:02 pm »
Should be able to use it again. Rebuilt it with a a new center section. Sell it on Revscene as a "clipped" turbo  ;)

Shitty deal any word on warranty?
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Offline Maurits Vos

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2010, 01:55:29 pm »
Quote from: Rob Armstrong on February 19, 2010, 01:46:02 pm
Should be able to use it again. Rebuilt it with a a new center section. Sell it on Revscene as a "clipped" turbo  ;)

Or get it back from warranty and sell it for more money as a rebuilt turbo ;)

No not yet. I just got the shit out of my exhaust and going to send it to them on Monday.
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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2010, 04:30:14 pm »
Ooo that's a big boom ahah I'd hate to be driving behind that car when it comes out lol. Shity deal. Upgrade 20 g ;)
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Offline Maurits Vos

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2010, 04:41:00 pm »
Quote from: Zach Holt on February 19, 2010, 04:30:14 pm
Ooo that's a big boom ahah I'd hate to be driving behind that car when it comes out lol. Shity deal. Upgrade 20 g ;)

Uh.. Zach.. It's out already

And it didn't shoot out.. I sort of had to fish for it in the exhaust. Well not really. try lifting a 1 piece exhaust from downpipe back vertically to get that shit out.. Yeah it was fun.
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Offline GlenMartin

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Re: 16G go "Bye-bye"
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2010, 11:30:43 pm »
just put it on ebay listed as "lightly used" hahaha.
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