K03 failure at 50.000km

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Old 07-13-2008, 01:16 PM
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Default K03 failure at 50.000km

Well it happened... K04 time. I'm surprised how early it happened, seeing as I always practiced proper warm-up/cool-down procedure.
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Default sounds about right

Unfortunately, with these turbos there is no way to accurately predict when they are going to fail. Proper warm up is key, but there are a thousand other factors that affect them when they are spun up to 100k rpm.
Were you chipped?
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Default my first set lasted 30K miles. I'm still on the 2nd K03s

and now have 155,000 miles. That's 125K on the replacment set. Chipped all the time.

They are either good.. or they are not.
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yup, I agree
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Default When do the original set fail normally?

83K on the original set and going strong. How long till my KO4 upgrade?
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Default Re: When do the original set fail normally?

two weeks
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Default Please post your reply in the subject line, nOOb!

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Default did that one on purpose.

it was a noob question, therefore required a noob-style reply
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Default Yeah, I knew it but figured I would give you crap like I didn't realize it. Keeps the real noobs

guessing. Sometimes I post just because I have a keyboard, you understand.
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Default lol

buy me some K04 turbos and we're even!!!

oh, and I'm coming back up for the first two weeks of September.


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