j7agy
New member
Hi all, this is my first post and very pleased to be part of the group!
I've have been an avid Porsche owner for about ten years and been the very proud owner of a 2004 manual 996 turbo X50 for the last couple of years. The car has been amazing and other than routine maintenance has been trouble free.
In early December I parked it up and as I wasn't going to run it for a few weeks until the Christmas holidays I connected it to the trickle charger so it would be fully charged and ready to go. Before that it drove perfectly and was pulling like a train!
I started it up and after a short while of driving I realised that something wasn't right... no turbo power! I got it on an open road and I managed to get 0.1 bar boost, but that was the last!
I was convinced it was just a major boost leak and so I booked it in to Steve & Warren at JAZ in St Albans for their first available slot in the new year for diagnosis. Its the first time I've used them but must say that they really do live up to their great reputation. After a few days the call came through to tell me that it was not a boost leak but the offside turbo was completely seized!!
I instructed them to go ahead with the repair and so they explained that they would outsource the turbo work to specialists AET turbo who asked to see both. AET suggested that one would just need a minor overhaul whilst the seized one would need a refurbishment so we sent them off. Once examined they called to say that both turbos are seriously corroded and the bearings had collapsed on the offside turbo and the nearside turbo was heading the same way. From the initial overhaul they are now saying that they both need to be fully rebuilt. Apparently this is very common but I've not seen any other examples of this on the internet/forums. The car has covered just 54k miles so a massive shame to get this news, especially when it ain't coming in cheap. They said it was just wear and tear and not resulting from any other specific component failure like oil starvation etc.
Would be great to hear if anyone else has experienced this or knows of another who has.
Thanks very much
John
I've have been an avid Porsche owner for about ten years and been the very proud owner of a 2004 manual 996 turbo X50 for the last couple of years. The car has been amazing and other than routine maintenance has been trouble free.
In early December I parked it up and as I wasn't going to run it for a few weeks until the Christmas holidays I connected it to the trickle charger so it would be fully charged and ready to go. Before that it drove perfectly and was pulling like a train!
I started it up and after a short while of driving I realised that something wasn't right... no turbo power! I got it on an open road and I managed to get 0.1 bar boost, but that was the last!
I was convinced it was just a major boost leak and so I booked it in to Steve & Warren at JAZ in St Albans for their first available slot in the new year for diagnosis. Its the first time I've used them but must say that they really do live up to their great reputation. After a few days the call came through to tell me that it was not a boost leak but the offside turbo was completely seized!!
I instructed them to go ahead with the repair and so they explained that they would outsource the turbo work to specialists AET turbo who asked to see both. AET suggested that one would just need a minor overhaul whilst the seized one would need a refurbishment so we sent them off. Once examined they called to say that both turbos are seriously corroded and the bearings had collapsed on the offside turbo and the nearside turbo was heading the same way. From the initial overhaul they are now saying that they both need to be fully rebuilt. Apparently this is very common but I've not seen any other examples of this on the internet/forums. The car has covered just 54k miles so a massive shame to get this news, especially when it ain't coming in cheap. They said it was just wear and tear and not resulting from any other specific component failure like oil starvation etc.
Would be great to hear if anyone else has experienced this or knows of another who has.
Thanks very much
John