What are the symptoms of a turbo going bad?

1. Loss of power or boost.
2. Slower, louder acceleration.
3. Difficulty maintaining high speeds.
4. Blue/grey smoke coming from the exhaust or Irregular excessive exhaust
5. Engine dashboard light is showing.
6. Warning signs of turbo failure.
7. Loud shrieking noise

How do I know if my turbo actuator is bad?

If your turbo has the following symptoms and warnings signs, you need to check whether there is a problem.

1. Check Engine Light when it is on.
2. Vehicle’s turbo does not produce boost during acceleration.
3. Oscillating turbo boost pressure.
4. Dramatic decrease in fuel economy.

What causes a turbo actuator to fail?

If the variable geometry mechanism is stuck, the turbo actuator will pull a higher current through the motor, especially compared with its designed current to take.

Meanwhile, It will bring about a burn out motor or a broken plastic worm gears. If so, it will reduce the boost pressure and result in home mode.

How do you calibrate a turbo actuator?

Sacer turbo actuator needs Sacer tools to calibrate. If you need to know how to calibrate turbo actuator, please kindly contact us.

How much does it cost to replace a turbo?

Normally, The average cost for a turbocharger assembly replacement is around 5000usd.

Labor costs are estimated from 1300usd to 1500usd, so the parts price is around 3000usd.

• What is known to us is that a defective turbo actuator brings about more damage to the engine. And it also causes an error codes and less power. Different error codes will show different problems for turbo or a pressure control, the solution is also different. Different brands have their own specific error codes.

The following error codes are just some examples,

• P0234 – Engine Overboost Condition
• P0299 – Turbo/Supercharger Underboost
• P2263 – Turbo/Supercharger Boost System Performance

But, If a turbo is in a good working status, what parts will be broken in the actuator itself? Maybe it is the control unit or the actuator basically consists of an electric motor, a plastic worm gear, a printed circuit board. Sometimes, our turbocharger is just a component broken, but, the car manufactures need our customers to afford a completely new turbo. This is a very expensive for customers. That’s also why the remanufacturing one is the best choice for our customers. Because consumers just need to pay less money to obtain a new turbo for their car. Which part is broken, where we repairing. That’s correct way to help our customers save money and time.

Sacer is a professional manufacturer for turbo aftermarket. We are the specialists in engine control& sensors system and transmission systems. Customized services are also available.

How to check a turbo actuator is in good quality?

Honestly, it is very easy to estimate a turbo charger actuator in good quality or a bad quality,

it is very easy to estimate the quality of a turbo charger actuator.

First of all, you can tell by the qualification and certificates that your supplier already achieved, such as ISO9001 and IATF16949.

Because the manufacturer can’t be approved until they meet the criteria of the certificates.

Secondly, you need to check whether the supplier has its own patents permission, R&D team,

Factory, professional sales team and after customer service, especially whether the company

provide technology supports. Thirdly, you can check the products material and some components,

even the production process and so on.

Regarding the turbocharger actuator, you have to master that whether it is an integrated or pigtail, because which could enables mounting and packing flexibly. Meanwhile, integrated electronics with position sensing provides enhanced accuracy resolution. This is the first thing you have to pay attention to. The second side is that you need to check whether it is brushless motor meatal gears and aluminum body, because it will provide a high torque and extend durability. The third side is that whether it supports a default position and multiple mounting options, which enable various custom mounting options. The fourth thing is that to check whether it belongs an industry standard connector, supporting multiple options from variant cable, making customers easily plug. The fifth thing is to assured that whether the communication is industry standard J1939 CAN Communication. The last thing is to check whether the turbocharger actuator has been strictly and completely tested by manufacture. Such as the HALT testing, vibration testing, corrosion testing, RT durability testing, high and low temperature ageing testing, water proof testing, drop testing, EMC,ROHS&REACH testing, Individual parts DV testing, vehicle durability.

The most important thing is that Garrett doesn’t provide separate parts for VNT turbochargers. So most of the turbocharger related parts are remanufactured. This is why customers have to choose a good supplier.

Sacer has approved the ISO9001 and IATF 16949.

Our products are all designed by European R&D team which can meet the European product quality standards.

What’s more, Sacer technical services are available.

And we also have finished all the testing about turbocharger actuator, sine sweeping frequency testing passed,

300hrs salt spraying testing passed,200hrs RT full load durability testing passed,

400hrs from +135℃ to -40℃ testing within oven room passed,

IEC60529-IP65 water directly crash testing passed,2m height drop testing is okay,

Radiated emission/conducted emission/harmonic/flicker also finished. CCC&CE satisfied,

100kilometeres real vehicle testing score qualified.

So if you are interesting in being Sacer agent or a customer, we’d pleasure to receive your inquiry.