Looking over the service records of the car I just bought, the turbos were changed at only 28,000 miles and 4 years old. I actually by chance met the 70+ year old original owner of my car, and I seriously doubt that she was running around with her foot to the floor flogging the car. The service records show that it was dealer maintained and got very regular oil changes with them. Yet still, the turbos went bad.
I casually met another Q owner the other day, he owns a beautiful Q50RS. He's the original owner and he had to have his turbos replaced at only 13,000 miles or so. He has no idea why they went bad so fast. Now his replacement turbos are starting to "rattle", whatever that means.
I looked on line and thee seems to be lots of complaints about turbos going bad. I've never seen a turbo equipped model of car have so any turbo issues. I know there has to be a reason for it but I'm not finding is. Are they cheap, crappy turbos? Under sized and working too hard? There has to be a reason for this. I come to this car out of the Mercedes AMG world, and there are few if any issues with the turbos on those cars. What's the problem here, and what's the solution?
I casually met another Q owner the other day, he owns a beautiful Q50RS. He's the original owner and he had to have his turbos replaced at only 13,000 miles or so. He has no idea why they went bad so fast. Now his replacement turbos are starting to "rattle", whatever that means.
I looked on line and thee seems to be lots of complaints about turbos going bad. I've never seen a turbo equipped model of car have so any turbo issues. I know there has to be a reason for it but I'm not finding is. Are they cheap, crappy turbos? Under sized and working too hard? There has to be a reason for this. I come to this car out of the Mercedes AMG world, and there are few if any issues with the turbos on those cars. What's the problem here, and what's the solution?
