CHUCKblue

Hi team,

A local garage says my car is dead. I pick it up tomorrow and will find out more but despite boosting OK and sounding good the symptoms are:

Stalling at low revs
Burning loads of oil
White smoke from turbo area

Car is 2001 bugeye wagon wrx.

My questions are:
Does the diagnosis of pistons and turbo fit with the symptoms. It sounds about right to me.
What is this car worth in scrap?
Is there a way to get more for it? I live in Portsmouth and car has prodrive exhaust and sports cat, prodrive springs, kyb shocks, whiteline arbs and alk, brakes with new bolts sliders and godspped discs and pads and a andy forrest remap.

Cheers,

Dan

CHUCKblue

Anyone?

b20sx

White smoke from the actual turbo itself? Could be a blown gasket on the turbo? Hard to say....Get some more info from the garage and update as could be one of a few things....?

Jimmyrallye

Sounds like a head gasket to me as well .. is the engine tapping-knocking

Vxr2010

a compression test would give you an idea if it's engine or turbo , stalling could even just be a maf sensor , burning oil could be turbo seals , difficult to diagnose with out seeing it or more info , it's a 2 litre lump so tend to be stronger , much mileage on it , is it smoking ?

TECHNOPUG

iTrader: (1)

I'd say definitely turbo oil seals/gasket. If it's just the turbo, then you can pick up a secondhand TD04 for £50. Failed pistons wouldn't effect the turbo and probably vice versa unless you've run the oil right down. I'd imagine the garage should be able to tell by running a compression test?

CHUCKblue

Apparently he compression tested 1 cylinder, got 70 and stopped.

CHUCKblue

Thanks guys.

Final question. Whats the above car worth on ebay sold for spares or repair?

Vxr2010

is it not worth taking it somewhere else for a different opinion and if it is broken not worth repairing ?

CHUCKblue

It was getting near end of life anyway

Vxr2010

oh ok a shame , i try and keep things running until rust gets too bad