Ok I have this loudish ticking coming from my turbo its a td04l and its done 103k
turbo pulls ok just wanted to see what u all think should I replace it with a proffesionaly refurbed turbo or just leave alone ?

car drives fine and emissions were excellent when I had the mot about a month and half ago

opinions welcome

thanks in adavance

Mark

 

Rattly heat shield?

 

the brown solenoid next to strut top?

 

Exhaust gas leak ??

Mick

 

its sounds like a noisey injector but its defo the the turbo or turbo heatshield area will have to check the items mentioned thanks guys keep the solutions comming

 

can anyone think of any other solutions or what the actual problem might be?

 

bump!

 

It's difficult to diagnose this kind of fairly subtle problem without having the car in front of us. Can you give us more info that might help us come up with possible causes?

The "ticking" noise - what's its frequency? Does it speed up/slow down together with the engine speed, or not? Does it go completely if you rev the engine (or get worse)? If you press a screwdriver onto the heatshield/compressor cover/downpipe/uppipe, can you feel the vibration that goes with each "tick"? Does the tick disappear (or get louder, or change in any way) if you poke a screwdriver in any of those places?

Given what you've already said, Micky's guess sounds like a good one, in that if there was anything inside the turbo causing an obvious and regular noise, chances are it wouldn't still be working fine when you tread on it. Therefore, something in the same general area - like a loose heatshield, would make sense given current info. The more you can tell us the better tho.

 

ok thanks mate will have a good look at it as soon as I can and let you know how I get on!

Cheers everyone though Your all stars!