Turbo Maintenance Tips: Extend The Life Of Your Turbocharger

Turbo Maintenance Tips: How to properly maintain your turbocharger / turbo diesel and how to avoid burning oil inside. Save thousands of dollars by learning how to properly maintain your turbo!

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[raullcalzadilla]

One of the best and simplest explanations for protecting the turbocharger. Millions and millions of people with 4 cylinders, turbocharged cars are going to spend millions and millions of dollars before they learn this. Thank you very much.

[kylelangley]

If you’re driving a turbocharged 4banger just cruise your vehicle for the last 3 miles of your commute and don’t shift past 2500-3000rpms. This is actually far superior to idling since air is able to cool off your engine manifold and other components as intended by manufacturer. Especially great after a Highway run in a direct injected engine, since idle on that engine dilutes oil and accelerates soot build up on valves.

[yakacm]

Didn't know that about leaving the engine running, but it just so happens that I do that anyway, well most of the time, in the winter all of the time. What I do is turn everything electrical off, blowers, lights, wipers, etc, etc and then let the engine run for a minute or 2 with no load, but this was purely to put some charge back in the battery, again more in the winter, cuz it's cold, the battery is less lively, it takes a lot of current to to start a diesel anyway, it's harder to turn over in the winter, plus you have every electrical doohickey running while you are driving so less power is going to charger the battery, glad to know it's good for the turbo too.

[captainclever]

i owned a few cars fitted with Turbos. when turbo timers became illegal, i set up a remote oil feed with a tank, pump and oil cooler.. it was the only feed for the turbo, ran the pump on a timer after shut off plus a small fan that sat on the cooler and only came on when the car was shut off.
The best part of all. i could use 2 different oil viscosity's.

people should consider this set up in all Turbo cars used as daily commuters

[Some-day]

I appreciate the super simple explanation. Just bought a turbo diesel truck and I’ve never dealt with turbos or diesel engines so I’m going to have to study up 😅

[chevyons]

I give ANY vehicle I'm in at least 30seconds to a min to warm up before even moving it. Then at least another 30sec to min period of idle time before shutting it down.

[rgdegregori]

My 93 Dodge Cummins had the pyrometer probe behind the turbo. Even under a heavy load it rarely exceed 600d. Following the instructions for the Edge gage on my 2012 RAM? I put the probe in front of the turbo. It exceeds 1000d pulling hills even without a load. It takes forever to get down to 400d. I couldn’t find any meaningful information on the subject but it closely follows the cool down time identified in the owner’s manual. The 400d method is what I have adopted.

[cessealbeach]

Great Point there, noted, My Dad has a 2014 F150 ecoboost 3.5, has 87K miles, No Issues, , still runs like new

[yanglue]

Groovy. I'll take this advice for the 86 toyota camry turbo diesel.

[JayzBeerz]

Good info. I wait a minute or so before I shut off my 2019 Sonata 2.0T.

[orinyellowhair]

I do the same ... let my engine idle for 2 to 3 minutes, after a highway cruise, and afterwards, I left the car hood up (for about an hour) and let all the heat out, so the engine heat won't dry out air ducts, hose, ect.

[MercedesMan]

mmm so this is why my dad always told me to chill for like 30 seconds before i turn off my 2.0T a4... glad i always listened heh

[alexxxxx]

your wearing bears and your fins start hitting the housing haha

[davidhoulden]

Auto start-stop must be a problem for turbo then?

[shawnmaurice]

I've seen turbo timers on jdm vehicles that people put on to do the same thing, basically it just lets your vehicle idle for a minute or two then turns off on its own even after you've turned the key off and walked away, maybe that would be a good investment for anyone with a turbocharged Diesel engine, stock or not?

[eddiereichel]

1:35 "Your wearing bears and that is what wears your turbo." I almost didnt catch the backwards bearing wears.

[johnnyVGtran]

best clear concise common sense video good work

[antelectric]

wow, about 5 years ago I turned off engine, checked turbo and it was glowing red !!!¬... I measured 500 centigrade with laser temp always been wondering what was going on ( I shut down engine immediately after a lot of turbo use...poor thing had no chance to cool itself down). It didnt fail amazingly but also didnt seem same efficiency afterwards

[Foghorn]

Love all your videos. Thank you I have learned so much. And has helped me with my car:)

[sunilayya]

Also synthetic oil is best for turbo engines and more frequent oil changes.