Suspected turbo blown

Was giving the megane some beans earlier when I heard a slight bang and lost all boost pressure. Car runs fine but is smoking and will not boost at all.

No codes stored or engine management light on. I'm 99% its the turbo. Just wondered what anyone else thought?.

Will check the shaft in a bit.

 

Cars only done 61k. I need to get a better scanner on it really. I only quickly used dash command to check for codes whilst I was out and there was none. When i heard the bang and the power went, check injection came up on the dash and so did check esp which is odd.

Will try get my mates snap on reader on it later and take the air filter hose off and check the shaft.

 

Just checked it over under the bonnet. Can't see any thing out of place. Ran dash command and the vac is normal, everything looks normal, it's pissing out blue smoke when you rev it and it comes back down to idle. It doesn't really smoke on tick over although it does smell. I'm confident it's the turbo shafted. I'll have to remove the hose at some point and check the shaft.

 

Just taken the pipe off the turbo and I can't really feel any play in there but it's hard to get to. So I whipped the top boost pipe off and it's full of oil. So I'm gonna go say the turbo is knackered.

 

Well managed to get the turbo off today. Shaft has snapped.

 

It was time consuming. Everything is a bitch to get to. We had to move the cat out the way to get to the turbo bolts, the cat to middle section bolts rounded off so the quickest way for us was to drop the subframe and drop the cat and flexi all in one.

It's not too bad a job and I certainly wouldn't take the engine out to do it.

 

I would lol. I'd say it took the best part of five hours to remove.

 

No worries Steve.

Picked up a turbo off Mr Black today, so will start getting it back together tomorrow. See how long this one lasts lol.