140 pd tdi leon advice

[Bonzy1800]

Thinking about getting a 2.0 tdi leon, just after any pro and cons really any common faults?
not really heard much about them going wrong
ill be getin a high mileage one so what should i be looking out for?
Do the turbo or engines suffer from any faults.

Thanks in advance

 

[andyspencer]

The main things to watch are, turbo wear, coolant issues (Cracked Radiator or Head Gasket) and clutch.. although that depends on how its been driven in its life.
All that said, these issues are rare. The 140 is a decent car and will outlive alot of others for the same price

 

[bmb779]

Thinking about getting a 2.0 tdi leon, just after any pro and cons really any common faults?
not really heard much about them going wrong
ill be getin a high mileage one so what should i be looking out for?
Do the turbo or engines suffer from any faults.

Thanks in advance

Great cars,especially when remapped,first thing i done was add a bottle of K Seal to coolant just in case,mines is now at 60000 mls and no problems.

 

[tris]

I have the 2.0 tdi 140 in my octavia bought it on 95k its now done 111k and its had a new egr valve £150ish and a new turbo at about 107k turbo was ducked

But mpg is super as am used to 20's with the Leon

 

[Bonzy1800]

cheers guys, turbo wear is just one of those things with high mileage.
any more info on coolant issues not heard about this before?

 

[Leon_MHX]

Mines due another turbo, which will be its 3rd one in 25,000 miles. Have i bought a lemon?

 

[tris]

Mines due another turbo, which will be its 3rd one in 25,000 miles. Have i bought a lemon?

Why?

 

[Nath.]

Mines due another turbo, which will be its 3rd one in 25,000 miles. Have i bought a lemon?

I would say that you have a bad remap, poor oil supply to the turbo or just plain old bad driving.

 

[Leon_MHX]

Remap was by awesome so APR, to be fair i doubt its how the car is treated always warmed up before driving quickly and always leave it to idle so it has oil supply running when cooling down.

it seems to be blowing the seals in the turbo, making it really noisy and allowing it to suck oil through and burn it. Giving me nice plooms of blue smoke out the back!

 

[tris]

What dose awesome say?

 

[Leon_MHX]

Their view is that it wont be caused by the map as boost pressure isnt really increased that much, but i was also told that 140 turbos are crap and its not uncommon for them to go?

Also it could have not been fitted properly (by seat) or they could have missed bits off, gaskets, oil feed lines, oil filter or even not changed the oil.

But why would the original turbo go in the first place?

 

[tris]

Mine went as the sharft had play as well as the balls being mashed

 

[Jon TDI]

The turbos on the Golf & Octavia PD140 are the same.
Probably down to poor quality components from manufacture.

 

[Leon_MHX]

hmm well two have done the same thing on me now, really noisy and if left idling it will spin up and make a whirring noise thats quite audible.

thing is turbo no.2 has only been on since september so about 4,500 miles