New Turbo - Would You Take A Chance

Seeing as the turbo on my 2.8 is looking poorly am tempted to take a chance on 1 of these

If you pay through PayPal dont you have some sort of recourse should it go fun bags vertical??

Why is t.i.t.s in the swearing filter bit draconian isnt it??

Freaky, I was looking at them tonight :shock:

I pretty much had a turbo in bits like that and sent the parts to a member on the promise that if he stuck it together and it worked he could pay me :lol:

it worked

I see a second hand turbo being more of a gamble to be honest :wink:

I was also looking at them a week ago and thinking must remember they are available lol

Thats what I thought, they are about the same money as a S/H turbo and as with most S/H stuff its always a gamble, however, the Chinese do not have the best reputation for quality parts so was a little concerned as to how long it would last

I have sold 2 turbo's ages ago as funds were tight and needed the cash, really wish I had kept them now, always useful to have a spare :roll:

If your looking to replace a Turbo on anything, You only want to do this the once. Take the cost on the chin, Pay for the best 1 you can afford.......Never Ever, 2nd hand.

Chris - I've got my original sitting on the front seat of the Fronty - if you want me to take any pics and post for comparison reasons, let me know and I'll duly oblige. Looking at the pics, the gaskets look the right shape and from memory, that's £15-20ish worth in it's own.
Have you asked the seller in what parts of the globe they have sold any of these turbos? If they come back with positive info, then try and find a forum in the part of the world or sort of motor and try and get some feedback as to quality.

Get onto

http://www.clubisuzu.com/index.php?sid= ... fd5909e2b0

These guys seem to deal with the Chinese parts :wink:

Well yes it would be Kel...
Your motor's been sat up the workshop since Christmas, so it's not like the turbo's actually been used :butt:

Glad its fine Kel :thumbup:

Yes jim, parked next to yours. :butt:

Yaki ... just remember that Vauxhall fitted the slightly more powerful 3.1 (4JG2) turbo to the Frontera 2.8. Only just got a chance to see the eblag listing (as I cannot eblag at work).

I would take the turbo you are going to try to fix and see if you are able to separate it before I ordered a core line that. My old one was seized into one part. Impossible to separate without breaking it. Would have been a pity if I already had ordered a core.

Other than that I have ordered two of those China turbos. Both of them had pretty worn boxes when they arrived, but the units themselves were not damaged. A complete turbo can take some beating, I would be a bit more conserned towards how a core with exposed turbines would deal with a rough shipping. Problem for me was the threads for the oil return pipe was not deep enough, bolt bottomed out and a part of the casting broke off. The second I'm still running after 6000 km and with no problems. Just watch those threads!

Thanks for the info, certainly sounds promising, good point about being able to strip it, will need to check and will watch out for the threads.

I might have found a S/H one local to me, guy is checking tomorrow, he only wants £60- and its an instant fix so will probably go with that and order a Chinese one as a backup. How long did the shipping take? Just had some Cree reversing bulbs arrive from China and they took 4 weeks :roll:

Yes, the shipping can take a while.
I'm used to it though

All the stuff for my trucks comes from abroad and very rarely I find retailers keeping this kind of obsolete stuff in store. 2-4 weeks is more like the norm.