Turbos - information

[mercfan]

Flol, so you see and get asked for so many because they're rare and crap? Ok...

Rare and crap because they go wrong by habit, resulting in a short supply of second hand units. The vans that they are fitted to are plentiful, but the reality is that about 60-70% of them have dead turbo's, compared to perhaps 15-25% on others with better turbos, ie transit 2.4, sprinter/vito, vw, etc. As at present, we only supply direct standard fit replacement units, ie not the tuning market.
Sorry if this causes upset, I was only having good intentions - it is a bit of a downer if you do all the work only to find yourself with a generally unreliable turbo.
Saying all that, it may be that it is not the fault of the turbo at all. At the end of the day, it's oil cooled and it is entirely possible that the "standard" fitment has other isssues, ie engine oil cooling/capacity arrangement, oil lines/feed issues, high egt by design, etc, etc.
So it may well be that in an alternative fitment, with everything matched up to an optimum and lower egt, that it turns out to be perfectly reliable.