2500km Old Gcg Highflow Turbo Died, Possible Cause Of Failure?

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Once I get it I need money to get the car through regency and registered legally with the rb25, should be a weapon once its tuned though, hoping for a responsive 240-250kw

Got a 9 seater 1980s 2L diesel van lined up for a runabout until then, should be pretty hilarious to drive around. Redline of 3k! wooooohooooo

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No they said the cause was excessive EGTs, the turbo guy here in Adelaide said thats a load of shit and it is far more likely it was not balanced correctly.

There is absolutely no way to prove that they are lying to me so I have to suck it up and pay. What would you do Kaido_RR ? I could ask for the turbo to be sent back, get an independent investigation to the failure, it will probably be inconclusive but leaning one way, I then have to take them to court and chances are I dont win, I burn my bridges and they will no longer deal with me. I am then left with nothing. Also the turbo is out of warranty, technically however if it is deemed an unreasonable failure I can still take them to court and get the repair for free, but then I have to prove that the turbo failure was 'unreasonable' even though it was out of its 12 month warranty. I can't prove the turbo wasn't used everyday for that period and that my 2500km claim is true.

At least this way I get a new turbo with 12 month warranty for fairly cheap, I am still going to ask for the broken bits back though so I can get some sort of opinion on the mode of failure that is 100% un biased.

being an adelaidian myself i have used all the mentioned turbo guys mention here and i reckon gcg (the only place i get mt turbos and repairs nowadays) have forgotten more about turbos than said adelaide shop knew to begin with . Remmber they are competitors and said adelaide shop is quick to bag out others.

Edited November 1, 2009 by URAS

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being an adelaidian myself i have used all the mentioned turbo guys mention here and i reckon gcg (the only place i get mt turbos and repairs nowadays) have forgotten more about turbos than said adelaide shop knew to begin with . Remmber they are competitors and said adelaide shop is quick to bag out others.

I wasn't spending any money with him, just getting an opinion. I've heard nothing but good things about him though.

Shrug, neither of us are mech engineers that design turbos so at the end of the day you just have to make the best educated guess you can.