Try not to gunk up your turbo
If giving your turbocharged car a good old ragging, when you get to your destination then let the car sit at tickover for a couple of minutes before turning the engine off. If you turn the engine straight off the glowing hot turbo (exhast gases typically over 600 degrees centigrade, remember!) will cook the oil that is sitting in the turbo bearing race making it shitty and sticky. By letting the temp get back down before stopping the oil flow you will avoid having to find £1000+ for a new turbo way ahead of its natural expiration date.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 17 Mar 2011, 13:28, 6 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I understand all of the words you've used
but haven't got a fucking clue what this is about.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 17:39, Reply)

Well the number of people who used to have turbo cars were quite low- petrol sports cars only back in the day
these days try finding a diesel car without one, more and more of us are driving turbo cars and when you've got black syrup instead of hypergrade lubricating a turbine that is trying to spin up to 100,000 rpm then there's going to be problems, including clogging up the oil feed in the first place.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 17 Mar 2011, 20:19, Reply)

trufax.
didn't realise car engine turbos span that fast though ;)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 17 Mar 2011, 22:01, Reply)

depends
how much boost you want?
wiki.seloc.org/a/Garrett_T3_Turbo
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:32, Reply)

The main use for this tip
is when arriving at motorway service areas.
High-speed caning + immediate stop and switch-off = emulsified oil = turbo death.

Also, don't sit with your foot on the brakes at the end of the slip road when you come off a motorway junction - you'll warp the discs. The stop from 70mph+ will heat the discs up a great deal, so keeping the pads clamped to one spot for a few seconds will make that spot retain more heat than the exposed disc surface for long enough to bend it. Blue Peugeot 406 estates are particularly prone to this.
(WillI'mNot logs in twice a year, every year, Sat 19 Mar 2011, 22:45, Reply)

Turbo timers FTW

(Frample Tromwibbler climbs an obstacle like old people fuck, Sun 20 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)