PLEASE HELP Marjor problems 2007 A4 170 avant

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Hi all yes more major audi brd problems!!

Little bit of history: I have owned the car for a year and done around 5k in it, it now has 105k on the clock. When I bought it I had looked at a few and it seemed a genuine car with FSH.

I recently had the oil pump go, killing the engine and the turbo. I bought a recon engine with the new oil pump system fitted and refurbished turbo both from separate suppliers on e b a y and got a local garage to fit.

After getting the car back it felt better than it ever had, BUT my wife managed 80 miles in the car before the new turbo popped, we took it back to the garage and then had to get the turbo removed and the supplier replaced it as it was under warranty.

The new turbo has now been fitted but the garage can’t get it boosting correctly at low revs. The garage claim the problem is another dodgy turbo. I called and complained to the supplier who was good enough to come to see that which is 200miles away. The turbo supplier claimed that it was a back pressure problem and checked the dpf with his diagnostic kit which said it was 44% blocked. Would this amount of blockage cause a boosting issue?? The garaged had previously removed the dpf and said it was clean and took photos to prove.

The turbo supplier then did a dpf regen and car blew out some black smoke, following this the car seemed to drive perfect. He then told me to take the car out for a good 80 miles keeping the revs at 3000rpm to clean dpf out completely. I took the car out and when I stopped to fill up with diesel after around 60 miles of motorway driving the same problems with boost were back, in first gear the car would not boost at all, 2nd gear intermittent and above 3000rpm in all other gears seems fine. No DPF lights have come back on or engine management light but the no boosting at low revs is back.

Can someone please please help I am throwing money at a problem and cant get a straight answer out of anyone I feel that it will never be fixed, is it likely to be a dpf problem?? or another dodgy turbo??

Thanks
 
would be better off gutting/removing DPF and deleted from the ECU=no more DPF problems.
 
Not sure how he was able to tell you it was 45% blocked, if the 45% was the ash mass value it would suggest the filter is getting on towards the very end of it's life.
 
would be better off gutting/removing DPF and deleted from the ECU=no more DPF problems.
Yeah that seems to be the plan now from the garage, I'm just worried that if it still doesn't cure the low boosting problem and the turbo is damaged, the turbo supplier I=wont give me another one under warranty as he is going to blame the dpf??
 
Not sure how he was able to tell you it was 45% blocked, if the 45% was the ash mass value it would suggest the filter is getting on towards the very end of it's life.
I think that is what he was measuring, would running the with that value for the 80 miles damage the turbo?

Lee
 
Turbo damage due to a blocked DPF is pretty common, no idea why the garage told you to run the car for 80 miles, doing a forced regen normally takes no more than 10/15 motorway miles to bring the readings back down to normal levels.

I feel your pain, I had the same issue about 3 weeks ago - removed the DPF in the end. Before you do anything too drastic I would take it to a proper VAG specialist and get them to have a look over it, your current garage seem a bit clueless.
 
It wasn't the garage that told me to run it was the guy who supplied the turbo. He came to have a look as the garage said it was another dodgy turbo and didn't want to run it. After the guy who supplied the turbo diagnosed the dpf was 44% blocked, he then did a forced regen and it seemed to run fine, he then said run it for 100miles at around 3000rpm to burn the rest of the crap out.

I personally think im getting done by both the garage and the supplier as the garage should of checked the dpf was clear , they took it off and checked it was clean but I don't think they checked with VAG com, now I don't think the turbo supplier will warrant the new turbo if I get a dpf delete done and it still doesn't boost properly, even though it was them that run the car.

All in all audi are taking the **** big time with this model, dodgy oil pumps and dpf filters that are only good for 100k when having genuine FSH, its beyond a joke and the repair bill is starting to out weigh value of the car.