So those of you on here who know me now, probably know I had an issue with my turbo over heating as it was damaged slightly and had play in the rear.
( in my readers ride )
The fix was to buy an original Borg Warner Reconditioned KO4.
I paid around 400 quid.
Once in the car I was all smiles. Car felt much more responsive. No more lag and decent power I thought.
When I took the car to Bill at Badger5, the rolling road showed my car was down on power to the tune of 10 - 12 horses.
This was put down to the actuator being weak and boost bleeding away at high revs.
Unhappy with these results, my mechanic spoke with the supplier to be told a load of flannel about it not being designed to be mapped with high boost etc etc blah blah bollox.
With that in mind I was put in touch with Owen Developments
What they don't know about turbos isn't worth knowing.
They are the turbo gurus. ( supplying turbos to the Indy Lites Series and the BTCC here in Blighty to name drop a tad. )
A talk with them confirmed they could recon the recon, adding new improved bearings, seals and new actuator etc.
Well I dropped the turbo in to them yesterday at 8am.
By 9am they had answers for me.
It's a FAKE!!!
Probably Chinese!
Not one piece was an original part, the exhaust housing wasn't even made from the right material and the engineer working on it only had to handle it to know it was bogus.
Obviously there was nothing they could do so I've had to purchase a brand new one! Which I'd have done originally to save all the pissing about.
We will be putting all the findings to the company who supplied this piece of shite and I'm really looking forward to seeing how they try to wriggle out of this embarrassment.
Can't name them just yet, want to see where I stand first, but I'm going to look into trading standards etc as they are a big company who are screwing the public.
So everyone beware of what you're buying!
I thought I was pretty clued up and street smart, even used a company with a background to safeguard myself
And I still got screwed.
People be Warned.
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( in my readers ride )
The fix was to buy an original Borg Warner Reconditioned KO4.
I paid around 400 quid.
Once in the car I was all smiles. Car felt much more responsive. No more lag and decent power I thought.
When I took the car to Bill at Badger5, the rolling road showed my car was down on power to the tune of 10 - 12 horses.
This was put down to the actuator being weak and boost bleeding away at high revs.
Unhappy with these results, my mechanic spoke with the supplier to be told a load of flannel about it not being designed to be mapped with high boost etc etc blah blah bollox.
With that in mind I was put in touch with Owen Developments
What they don't know about turbos isn't worth knowing.
They are the turbo gurus. ( supplying turbos to the Indy Lites Series and the BTCC here in Blighty to name drop a tad. )
A talk with them confirmed they could recon the recon, adding new improved bearings, seals and new actuator etc.
Well I dropped the turbo in to them yesterday at 8am.
By 9am they had answers for me.
It's a FAKE!!!
Probably Chinese!
Not one piece was an original part, the exhaust housing wasn't even made from the right material and the engineer working on it only had to handle it to know it was bogus.
Obviously there was nothing they could do so I've had to purchase a brand new one! Which I'd have done originally to save all the pissing about.
We will be putting all the findings to the company who supplied this piece of shite and I'm really looking forward to seeing how they try to wriggle out of this embarrassment.
Can't name them just yet, want to see where I stand first, but I'm going to look into trading standards etc as they are a big company who are screwing the public.
So everyone beware of what you're buying!
I thought I was pretty clued up and street smart, even used a company with a background to safeguard myself
And I still got screwed.
People be Warned.
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