Well when i first got my turbo everything seemed to be good, till a week or so later i realised that i was losing oil consistently. i'd lose around 1L of oil per week, depending on how i drove.

so i looked into having the turbo repaired by aaron. he took it, he said he fixed it then he sent it back.... GREAT, i thought. now my turbo is 100%.....a week later i still had 1L of oil gone. not good.

i was speaking to aaron on msn and he was convinced that it was my motor and not the turbo. he said it could be my valve stem seals. so i did them. no change. then he said send it to GCG to see whats wrong with it.

ive been putting it off for a while because of how busy i am and i couldnt have my car off the road for more than a week at the most.

after hearing that a friend of mine had his sliding turbo fail, the oil problem really started to worry me, so i pulled it off and sent it to GCG under aaron's instructions, as he told my friend to do also.

GCG say that it will cost $990 to repair. aaron is now telling me to get the turbo off GCG and send it to whoever is warranting it.
mind you, it was sent to them before and they did not repair it then.
GCG said:
- ring area worn
- collars are worn
- bearing housing needs to be machined to fit a new bearing in there.
- the turbo was showing that it had 50,000km's of wear on it, when ive had the turbo since february with a few months off while sending the turbo off to get 'repaired'.

on the plus side, GCG also said:
- the shaft had NO sign of oil contamination, no scoring on the shaft (which aaron had said that there was when i first sent him the turbo).
- and there was no indication of lack of oil pressure on the motor.

now, what do i do? should i send the turbo back to aaron's warranting company for a second time and wonder what will happen next?
- i dont want to do this, i've been through enough over this turbo, i think i deserve a working turbo after all of this.
- aaron told me to send it to GCG, which i did.

or should i push to have GCG repair the turbo properly?

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Hi Joe
As expressed in our previous correspondence, now the turbo has been assessed more conveniently for you in Sydney, Please send the turbo to this address as previously instructed:
Murnane Motors
Shop 4/11 Ramly Drive
Burleigh Heads
QLD 4220

And the turbo would be repaired under warranty by Murnane Motors.
Jase

i actually want the turbo repaired this time mate.

cheers.

Sliding turbo? Didn't you bolt it on?

If there is no sign of oil contamination, where is the oil going?

i bolted it on, but its a sliding turbo.
the oil is going through the worn rings.

Just contact Murnane Motors direct on 0755357411 and they will organize everything with you as the warranty on these turbo's is based with them being the manufacturing workshop.
Jase

if i had a Murnane Motors turbo, i'd do exactly that.
i have a sliding performance turbo, so sliding performance should take care of everything since i dont know them, nor have i ever dealt with them.

I've got one of those and it's been really good, sounds like you got a bit of a lemon turbo.

if it were me I would send it there, get it fixed then sell it (disclosing the history of course). I mean, you did chose a turbo based on price (well I assume anyway). sadly it hasn't lived up to expectation. try a GCG or HKS etc. I mean sure they cost more, but if you fit it once, and never have to remove it again then overall it's much cheaper. I would probably be not too comfortable with re-fitting it know this could happen again.

also, I thought slide built these turbos in house?

Aaron used to be at the shop working on the turbo's with Sheldon the owner purely to try and keep up with orders.
Sliding Performance does not own the balancers or machining gear, Aaron was basically just the robot and on lots of occasions so were i just to help keep up with the mass of turbo's that were always required.
The first time the turbo was seen to there was no problem with seals or anything that i can see in the notes i have.
Just that there was discoloration from what apparently looked like minor oil starvation.
Jase

well if GCG rebuild it i will have a working turbo because they've figured out the problem. i wouldnt have a problem installing it after that.
if his warranter repairs it then i'll be alot more reluctant, and i wouldnt want to sell a dodgy product to anybody.

it was said that the turbos were built in-house.

ok, well it sounds like joe know what he wants. I think from here on it's between joe and sliding. you may be able to get a compromise joe where by they are willing to foot some of the bill for the repair. but either way it's not really suitable for the public forum, probably best to discuss it in private.

its been discussed in private.
im asking for opinions, Richard.

Hey dude,

I would send it back for the warranty work. Sliding is obviously telling you to send it back to the manufacturer to save you some time.

If you are concerned about their workmanship take it back to GCG turbos and get them to check it before you put it back on your car.

If it is still no good when it comes back you would have a good case to get a refund I would think.

Simon