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Re: Turbo, Head Gasket, or worse? What do you think?
Posted by Calvin [Email] (more from Calvin) on Fri, 5 May 2006 09:03:42
In Reply to: Turbo, Head Gasket, or worse? What do you think?, Ed Hall, Thu, 4 May 2006 18:28:19
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Sounds identical to what happened last month to my '99 9.5 Wagon (117K Miles).
There seem to be a lot of contradictory postings about the smoke you get from turbo failure vs head gasket, but I became convinced it must be the head gasket primarily because the smoke was white.
My mechanic first ran a compression test which was OK. Turned out to be the turbo after all. The mechanic got the parts for about what I would have paid over the Internet and only charged me $75 labor. I enjoy DIY but I am very slow and I needed the car back quick so I was happy to let him do it.
The engine wasn't run more than a couple of minutes after the failure and I am not getting any CEL warnings - so I am assumeing the cat is OK.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Turbo, Head Gasket, or worse? What do you think?, Ed Hall, Thu, 4 May 2006 18:28:19
- Re: Turbo, Head Gasket, or worse? What do you think?, Calvin, Fri, 5 May 2006 09:03:42 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Turbo, Head Gasket, or worse? What do you think?, Andrej, Fri, 5 May 2006 08:15:37
- Re: Turbo, Head Gasket, or worse? What do you think?, LesH, Thu, 4 May 2006 18:47:55
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