Sales of good act offers less opt. outs and maybe a better route than the warranty.

That's right on the margins. It's a 6 year old car. Technically, you should be able to force the dealer to pay for the entire repair. However, you're far more likely to have to really push hard (as in Small Claims Court) for that to happen.

I'd see what it's going to cost to get done, and then see what sort of contribution the selling garage was prepared to make, before making any decisions.

Bear this in mind : All the oil feed pipes for the turbo will probably be clogged up with carbonised oil too. If ONLY the turbo is changed, then you're likely to have another blown turbo in a few months. The pipes MUST be changed too. That obviously adds more costs, and if you're getting the job done by the selling garage, then they're (probably) going to do the job 'on the cheap'.

If looked after with regular oil and filter changes, there is no reason a turbo cannot last for the life of the engine.

Oh Bernie, a man after me own heart, be careful on your way home mind they'll get you for that...whats that? a bit of sensible and cheap regular care? they'll have kittens if people listen cos their current cars (all vehicles) would last donkeys years.

I've covered around and probably over 3 million miles now, the vast majority of which have been in turbo Diesels and i'm yet to have a turbo failure...they tell us that the warm up cool down routine is no longer valid apparently, modern engines better tolerances special turbo cooling blah blah...well they would say that but its funny how we get regular turbo failures now.

OH well, can I claim to be a turbo God as well, cos like the posters above, I take it for granted, that the turbo should be good for the life of the engine, in a car leastwise.

change oil at the manufucturer recommended intervals, not any sooner, use the correct grade of oil, nothing better needed, and pull the dipstick once a month or so, oftener if required, and after working the engine hard or hot, let the turbo simmer down, only put 253,000 on the VW Galaxy turbo, quite untouched, and apparently still at least 90-95%, if not perhaps 100%.

Common sense aka mechanical sympathy is apparently relatively uncommon

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Mrs fawkes

If your jaguar needs pads and discs at under 50 k its obviously being driven unsympathectically which in turn will be hard on turbos etc.

My 2.0 d jaguar and my 2.2 turbo d jaguar did well in excess of 120 k before it needed pads & discs and never needed turbo or EGR valves.

Both my Diesel jags were brilliant, one had a headlamp bulb and a boot lock & tyres the other one only tyres

Drive a diesel gently when its cold, allow the engine to cool down ticking over for at least a minuet before switching off and buy decent quality diesel fuel ! I aslo very very rarley indeed did I ever exceed 2500rpm. 3k on the odd occasion.

make sure tghey are regularly serviced with very high quality engine oil and they should easily do 200,000 miles.

problem with diesels these days is people drive them and treat them like a petrol car !