9-5 turbo gone

[ynnejcantbe]

Is it worth repairing, its 11yrs old, ave cond, easy or diff job? how much is a turbo?

[Piglet]

Seeing that your in Bristol I'd give Simply Saab a ring...they often have recon'd and second hand stuff around. The turbo on my 9-3 whines and I think they said £700 (or was it £400? - sorry that doesn't help does it? ) but said that they might well be able to get hold of a second hand one which would be cheaper. Needless to say I just turn up the radio

http://www.simply-saab.com/

[Saabstudent]

If you are down Bristol way i really would recommend Jamsaab.
www.jamsaab.co.uk always does very good prices on parts, and i know he used to have quite a few brand new Saab turbos in stock.

G

[odyssey2200]

Not unusual

have you got to about 60-80k miles??

Turbo is easy enought to replace provived no bolts shear off.

It will smoke like a bd when you fire it up though.

Expaect half the street to disapear in a cloud of oil smoke.

Takes about 20 mins to clear

[DavidY]

I had one go recently, the first one on my 2000 9-5 2.3LPT at 189k miles! We've had the car since 7k miles and know it's full history!

I caught it as it started smoking, and had it reconditioned by Turborepairs in Blackpool, excellent service, got it back 2 days after being colected looking like new, cost £250, add a gasket set and a change of oil (fully synth) + filter + some antifreeze, as coolant system needs to be drained. I was up to around £300 in parts inc VAT. Removed and refitted with a neighbour (two sets of hands definitely helps). Took a couple of hours each time.

Now done a further 8k miles, with no problems. Turbo has unlimited mileage 1 year warranty.

It will cost more if it needs new impellor blades, ie they have made significant contact with the turbo housing.

http://www.turborepairs.com/parts.html

Hope that helps

davidy

[lord summerisle]

ours went just before christmas last year.

Decided to... the the missus decided... to we I should repair it... over Jan/Feb/March over a few weekends... on a cobbled street...in the snow.

Also fitted the updated PCV Kit at the same time. Got the turbo on a swaps from a seller on ebay. Was a reconditioned turbo guy who was just basically advertising on ebay. recieved a reconditioned turbo with 12 month warrenty, sent the old turbo back via TNT.

can be a bit fiddly, and at times hardwork getting some of the bolts off. we used a combination of the Haynes manual, and searching threads on Saabscene.

If the impeller has been damaged - then i would deffinatly recommend stripping out the intercooler, and all the hoses between the turbo and the throttle body (and even if not consider doing it anyway) as we found lots of little shards of metal and LOTS of oil in the hoses and intercooler. Our local saab indy said they've had a few cars in whoes owners havent cleaned the intercooler... and those shards have lunched the engine.