skudmissile

My freind from work has an identical fabia vrs to mine.

At the weekend we both noticed large amounts of black smoke, loss in power and oil pissing from the egr.

Basically he took it to the dealer who said the turbo had blown its seals and contaminated the air system with oil. The bill he signed for SUK was just short of £1900 the turbo alone was £913 and they also swapped the intercooler, egr, vacumn distribution block, air pipes, inlet manifold, cat, exhaust maifold and loads of other gaskets

My question is, is this likely to happen again as the car has only done 34k on a 54 plate. the car is standard, pm me for details


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MikeW

Ouch! Hope that doesn't happen to mine. It's coming up on that mileage. Is he a very aggresive driver?

skudmissile

He is but he always warms the car up and cools it down. He drives like his right foot is made from lead but i wouldnt say he abuses the vrs.

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MikeW

Bit like me then! Please pass on my sympathies. I'm going to drive like a Grandad from now on, perhaps i should get an SDI instead and put spoilers and VRs badges on it.

Honestly, a repair bill like that would wipe me out. Is covered on warranty?

bryand

I hope he got the old bits back from the dealer - some of them could be worth a bob or two.

Yep, every 35,000 miles, regular as clockwork.

kit

did he get all that sorted out on the warranty?

k

skudmissile

yes didnt pay a penny, all under warrenty, the bits will have gone back to SUK i would imagine.

If it had been out of warrenty he would have gone down hybrid, fmic route and it probably wouldnt have cost as much.

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sharkrider

My EGR valve died leaking oil, that too was replaced under warrenty.

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Chrispy

Mine too. Getting it replaced tomorrow under extended warranty.
Then getting it turned down so it doesn't do it again.

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sharkrider

lol... I got BryanD to turn mine right down when I got the new one in too!

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Chrispy

Heh, excellent.

Did it have the desired effect? I take it no oil spewed since it was done?
Not that you have the car anymore. The Fiat one probably wont go wrong.
Instead the windows will randomly open/ close and the lights wont work.

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VRStu

Wow that's lucky it hasn't happened to yours John.

Do you, ermmm I mean does your friend, have a remap?

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sharkrider

it was fine after that, the car smoked less too

well wierdly enough with the fiat,I have my first problem, I've got to have a new drop-link on the ARB fitted, because it's knocking...... this is a common fault with the vRS, but they never died on my vRS!

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devonutopia

Loving all the

I say your friend is a lucky man! Tell him to treat his car with a bit more respect and perhaps if he wishes to tune it a bit, should consider a few more "preservation" mods to help. This is what I've done and I'm left with a nice reliable car (apart from pd100 stock bits which break sometimes )

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I *really* need to turn down the EGR - still haven't got round to it

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Chrispy

Interesting. I've read that EGR increases smoke but no-ones ever confirmed that turning it off had a positive effect in that regard. Nice.

Drop links are a common one on so many cars now I've found. 2 of my BMW's needed em, my Xantia needed em and the vRS seems to munch them.

Turning down the EGR seems to be a must if this is the case. It's only to reduce NOX and a smidgen of CO2 which aren't covered by MOT's on diesels anyway.

SUK are getting hammered though for warranty claims at the moment. I've given them some stick recently, as it would appear has 'Johns friend'.

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Shaun L

I am also waiting for a EGR valve, but I hoping they dont turn round and say its not covered by warrenty due to the de-cat.

Is it worth getting it turn down then?

Shaun

skudmissile

**** U Suk!

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