[s-cars] K24 life

[John Petersen]

The stock turbo should last at least 3 or 4 early transmissions.
More seriously, stock turbos dying? I've heard of 2 cases of them being
rebuilt thus far, and only 1 failure.
I had 180k miles on my car when I replaced the stock turbo, which was still
in good shape, and I have a pretty heavy foot. I replaced it with one from
TEC, and that broke in 9 months, and, of course, they refused the warranty
claim. The second TEC turbo started passing oil at 2 or 3 months.....
 From what I understand, KKK makes very strong, durable turbos. I've heard
of few incidents, at least compared to the "replace yearly" policy from a
Colorado firm (not just my bad luck either...)

-John
P.S. I haven't heard of many problems with RS2 turbos either, exceptions
including sucking a bypass valve into the compressor wheel.


>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:05:07 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Matt Moly <urs6_20valve at yahoo.com>
>To: s-car-list at audifans.com
>Subject: [s-cars] Length of S4/S6 Turbo Life
>
>After reading Paul's last email, I started wondering
>how long a typical stock S4/S6 turbo will last under
>lets say "average/normal" driving condidtions. Does
>anyone know? Also, my S6 (@ 70,000 miles) is
>completely stock except for an MTM stage 1+ chip, I
>don't drive it extremely hard and have never tracked
>it, so would anyone know about how long the stock
>turbo typically lasts with this kind of a set up?
>Thanks.
>
>Matt Molyneux
>'95 S6 MTM stage 1+ (soon to be RS2 turbo if someone
>tells me stock turbos die quickly)