Freelander 1 Which Turbo to fit? Facelift 2004 109HP. Manual.

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Hard Drive

Hard Drive

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I have a 2004, Freelander 1, Td4, 109hp, and wonder if anyone has replaced their turbo on the same model.
What make/brand did you use and was it good-to-go?
Where did you get it?
Might anyone recommend any particular make?
It has to be a new unit.

Any relevant info would help.
Thanks guys/gals.
I'm trying to stop being ripped-off.
 
Hard Drive said:
I have a 2004, Freelander 1, Td4, 109hp, and wonder if anyone has replaced their turbo on the same model.
What make/brand did you use and was it good-to-go?
Where did you get it?
Might anyone recommend any particular make?
It has to be a new unit.

Any relevant info would help.
Thanks guys/gals.
I'm trying to stop being ripped-off.
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I've had good experience using just a new "cartridge" / CHRA (Centre Housing Rotating Assembly) and cleaning up and reusing the original "snail" (cold/air) housing and the variable nozzle gubbins. Doing that saved me a couple of hundred bucks, and I don't see any reason you couldn't do something like that? How NEW does the NEW turbo have to be? You'd probably be ~£650 for a brand new original garret GT1749v from a garret dealer, or ~£250 for a remanufacturered turbo from most turbo shops, this may or may not be on an exchange basis dependent on who you are dealing with.

Do not buy any of these as they most likely aren't the turbo you need, especially the middle one, but they illustrate the pricing options you have.
https://www.darksidedevelopments.co...gt1749v-turbocharger-for-320d-m47n-m47n2.html
https://www.turborebuild.co.uk/webs...ger-Audi-A4-A6-VW-Passat-B5-19-TDi-Turbo.html
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Turbo-Ca...lander&hash=item54808b7bc4:g:I3QAAOSwrGpeX10x
 
Great, thanks everyone. My car is in a garage that insists on fitting a new Garrett. I'm verging on getting a trailer to remove it back to my home. And that's my reason for asking. Your responses are helping me enormously. I'm all for DIY and that's looking like how it might be. Garages? Words fail me.
 
Getting the turbo out can be a bit of a gentlemens-genitals to do, and at garage's hourly rate I can see why unnecessarily revisiting it in a couple of years would be bes avoided, but I'd have thought aht a remanufactured turbo would actually be "good enough"?

On another note, I've been meaning to ask @Hard Drive a question, a few weeks ago you posted a thread about bypassing the intercooler, did you actually do that in the end up? Reason I ask is I was wondering if your follow on thread, this one, about turbo replacement was because bypassing the intercooler had ended up with you cooking the turbo as a consequence of hotter air into the engine generating hotter exhaust gasses out of the engine going into the turbo, thus pushing the turbo past its comfort zone?
 
I wouldn't personally dismiss the quality of a decently remanufactured turbo, but the garage may have had a bad experience in the past. I hear there are some bad CHRAs coming from cheaper suppliers, and balancing even the good ones may not be trivial.
 
The thing is with current legislation, if the garage fits any part even if supplied by you, they are responsible for the part if it fails.
So for example 2nd hand engine supplied by you, and it fails, it is down to them.
This is a newish thing, and lots of garages dont know about it yet, certianly one I spoke to a few months ago did not know.
So the garage are always going to play it safe, otherwise could cost them a lot of money.

Do not forget there are a lot of people out there happy to screw someone over to make /save money.
 
Jayridium said:
Getting the turbo out can be a bit of a gentlemens-genitals to do, and at garage's hourly rate I can see why unnecessarily revisiting it in a couple of years would be bes avoided, but I'd have thought aht a remanufactured turbo would actually be "good enough"?

The garage refuses to fit anything other than a Garrett, which is the best, they say. Expensive too. I'll just accept it as it'll give me peace of mind on my long-hauls.
The intercooler? No, I didn't bypass it. The info received from LandyZone members persuaded me it would have been a fools errand. The reason I asked was to help in diagnosing what was wrong with my car, and ended up handing it to the garage.
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