Hope you have a lift in your garage like he does, otherwise forget it. Video is a waste of time.

@@davenone7312 Sorry but I just did mine and only jacked up passenger side about 16” enough to lay under and undo lines. It’s easy to reach everything. Although I found it easier to r&r violent banjo line from block by doing it from the top just holding turbo up and out of the way.

Good luck!

that's a very nasty job on that car. A friend of mine did one of those for a KZfaq viewer of his about 7 years ago and I don't think he has any intentions on doing anything like that again on an Audi or VW anytime in the future. I have a friend who has one of each and when he had the timing belt done we took it to a guy I know up the line who is a master Audi technician and has an indoor lift and jack, and does them all the time. Every man's gotta know his limitations. Yes they are expensive cars to repair and it's not something that I would advise anybody to buy who is not willing to work on their own cars and/or is on a tight budget.

Glad it's been helpful! Body work is a whole different beast so don't sell yourself too short - truly an art form.

@@fcpeuro appreciate it! Much love guys!

Coolant line was my biggest problem as well

That is why we do it!

You're looking at around 2k to do it yourself. The turbo with Gaskets and everything is 1500 dollars itself the tools are about 500

Just get a replacement turbo core. Cost you less than 500 doing it yourself

I just browsed some for $400-$600 dls.

How did it go?

Those would be fuel lines!

We have them available per your specific model on the site, simply input your vehicle on the site and you will see options that only fit your car!

I thought the same thing! All of the turbos I found have the manifold as a cast member of the exhaust side of the turbo, so it’s all one part. Even so, I found the whole turbo assembly for sale around $300 and up to $900. Cheaper than I expected.

Same

Pejon, you may want to get some penetrating fluid on there as insurance and attempt to get at it from a different angle. Sometimes with jobs like these, you find yourself working from all sorts of angles to get the hardware off and on again 😓

Thank you for the note!

Hi Shane, our time is not on par with a shop as filming oftentimes doubles or not triples a normal procedure. We filmed this over a period of two days.

If you are a rookie, 2 or 3 days

Can you elaborate on this a bit? I’m looking at replacing the turbo on my son’s car. If there’s a bit of a cheat and it prevents triggering a code, I’ll try this first.

Hi. Could you explain how to do it?

wastegate rattle

If you're super experienced and have all the right tools... Not to mention the possibility of sheared bolts

shit took me a week of everyday wrenching lmao

Not enough..

@@fcpeuro I'm so embarrassed to ask for your advice. But I need help, I got ripped off and being a chick makes it easy. I bought my 2011 Audi A4 brand new. My check engine light came on years later. They told me bad waste gate and said over 5,000 to fix. I missed the Audi warranty by 2 months and 3,000 miles over. Sick about that. I didn't want to fork out 5000 to fix it, when my car is barely worth 5000. And it drove fine. So I ignored and drove on it, for over a year. Then one late night, my car illuminated 'too low of oil to drive" and at time my oil sensor was chewed on by rodents and wasn't working. So I poured 1 and half liters of oil in car, started it and it smoked like crazy, just bailing out the exhaust. I shut the engine off and had it towed to this auto shop. I told them what happened. I asked them how much they charge to replace turbo. He quoted me 3500. So I agreed. Which was late Thursday, Auto shop calls me next day at 1pm and tells me it's ready.. That seemed very odd to me because this isn't a turbo place. They would have to order it from somewhere. Or find one in Las Vegas. Anyways, I asked them how long the turbo warranty is. They said 2 years. When I left there,, my car drove the very same exact way as it did when I brought the car there. Except for them draining out the oil, I know they didn't put a turbo in my car. My car still smoked a little from the under the hood and the check engine light remained on. I called him to tell him, he said "well I'm sure it would after all that oil." I learned a lesson for trusting these people and not asking to see the turbo that they took out of my car.. I was scared to take my car to them, having no proof that they put a new turbo in and refused to have them ask for more money for things they weren't doing. Skip to a year later and now my turbo is finished. I feel like I have the proof now,, but being a chick, I'm hoping it just the bad turbo.. I gunned the accelerator trying to get out of traffic one day and it said no way, started thumping a bit and was very slow. So my car is in front of my house and I'm going to tow it to that dreadful place that pulled a fast one on me. Can you please give me some advice. I would hate to have them tell me it's something else and I have to pay more big bucks, while they use that money to get my car a turbo. Thank you for your videos and such important information that surely helps us immensely. You are awesome and decent, I can tell.

@@fcpeuro If it was you, that was fixing my car. I would have had no problem paying 5000 to have it done correctly and done right. You are one in a million. And is that the Audi rings tattooed on your wrist? Pretty cool looking

@@outoftime7740 if you're worried about getting hustled you'll at least have to buy your own OBD scanner and find out what fault codes you have and what they mean

@@outoftime7740 these cars also suffered from an oil consumption issue that was caused by bad piston rings and requires the head to come off. I have a rattling waste gate and the symptoms are under boost, but not oil consumption. There was a recall for the engine. Mine was fixed before I bought it used around 2015.

Dan, we have a few options available. Be sure to enter your YMM over at FCPEuro.com to see what we offer for your vehicle.

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Doing a 2017 a4 at my shop right now 40k miles lol

@@anthonygonzales2811 how Many hours of work Is that?.

Book time is 8 hours but if you have done 3-4 a week like I do I got it down to about half the time

I know people who’ve had them go bad at just 40k miles. It’s absolutely ridiculous. For a supposed high end car with German engineering their quality control is garbage. You could buy 2 identical e brand new audis and drive them the exact same, and have a part last 20k miles on one and 150k miles on the other. They really should offer a warranty or recall since Audi parts go so quickly. You will never make it past 100k miles and not have something break. I just passed 100k miles. I had my timing chain go at 70k $2,000+. Then my catalytic converter go at 80k. Another $2,000+. And now my turbo charger is going at 100k miles and that’s another $2,000+. I eventually wised up and brought it to a private euro mechanic who did it for half the price the dealership wanted.

@@MrGhoulie idk, mines a 2012 Audi A4 avant and the turbo is just fine with 80,000 miles on it

yeah its a q5 *edit* I see now that its saying in the title

I’m in Georgia I got a guy who is about to do it for $1200

@@leroy450 that’s a good deal, I ended up going to NEW German Performance in Manassas, VA and I paid $2.3k for parts and labor

@@ThePto95that’s a good from a shop.

Ouch! Was looking at an audi with a "small" turbo issue. Think I'll move on 😂

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