Yes SMOKE ...shouted to emphasise the amount . S reg vehicle as above ,started with some light blue smoke , not unusual as it hadnt been driven for a few weeks . Smoke got much worse as driven , when got over 40mph on dual carraigeway say red chunks coming out of exhuast . Car had been driven some 10 minutes at this point . Continued on to first available stop and found all of the oil had been burnt . Put more in , started fine but continued to burn the oil in huge clouds of smoke .

had an RAC patrolwoman come out , she was excellent , had been a diesel fitter for 10 yrs before joining RAC . She had a real good go over and came to this conclusion -

the turbo had broken up on the exhuast side , seals had let oil through to inlet side (backed up by massive amount of oil in air hoses) and that the hot bits in the exhuast were the turbo vanes breaking up .

Inspection at the time showed no damage to the air inlet side of the turbo , the compression was good , no crankcase comp , didnt appear to be rings gone or head gasket and so on , so I went with that and got trucked home .

Finally got round to starting job today , took the turbo off complete with manifold etc connected . Cursory inspection showed OK airside turbo , massive amount of oil in the hoses . Havent taken the turbo apart as....

....I have another complete unit on a manifold ready to go straight on , once I have replaced the perished hoses .

So , anyone got any ideas or suggestions on how to proceed other than the obvious fitting the spare unit and seeing what happens ?

no one ?

I'd just make sure all oil has been flushed out of the inter cooler aside from that as no sign of swarf in inlet pipes should be good hopefully

A good wash out will reveal if there is any swarf , but the vanes on the cold side of the turbo all look whole .

Sounds like I will be buying a gallon of paraffin for a weekends fun of pipe-and-cooler washing then onto headgasket job on Kart...with much scrubbing of blockface with nylon scourers and everpresent paraffin

UPDATE **** since Kart is dying on me I had to get this done . Cleaned out the amazing amount of black gunge in the hoses , never seen so much , over 10mm in places , using diesel and old socks , pulling through with wire like a gun barrel . Rinsed all with petrol and used air spray on compressor to dry and knock off any particles . No swarf visible in the muck ....I hope there was truly none present . Reassembled in a race against the clock/daylight ....got it back together with only one bolt and one hoseclip missing as the light went . The only decent spare battery has the posts in the wrong place so I had to fiddle it on.....

...and it started first turn , no smoke , nothing . Ran it for 20 mins and moved it around the yard , fine . So , roadtest tomorrow in the daylight when I am less shattered .

So , the S reg ES premium is go - "Link" lives . More to follow ....