Turbo Problems (maybe)

[vwsharan]

My local dealer had suggested that the boost valve in my turbo may be sticking, the engine went into limp home after accelerating hard onto a motorway. To repair "new turbo" required. Says there are no bits to lubricate, or service.

 

Now as my car spends 99% of its life travelling round town and is driven for a max of 2 miles on each journey (3 times a day), never gets to half warm before being turned off, I wondered if it is possible to choke up the turbo and therefore when you give it a bit of welly on the motorway it has a fit as all the muck is blown out!

and causes the engine to go into sulk home mode.

Anyway gave it a good hard run for 60 miles, hard acceleration, quick deceleration etc and not a sulk.

 

Anyone else suffered from this problem due to short runs

 

The car

 

1.9 tdi sharan 2003 115bhp with 92,000 miles

[jsr4]

My 110TDi Galaxy (Feb 2000, i.e. Mk1) has almost as severe a lifestyle - 6 mile round trip, twice a day. It has also had intermittant 'limp mode' for ages. You will find a lot of info about this on this site and also on the (US) TDiclub site. Apparently the standard dealer response is