Owner reviews for turbocharger

Mine has over 200k now, still running the stock turbo. I will probably keep this car for awhile.

My first vw was a 2001 Jetta Wolfsburg with 1.8t. I had the car from new drive it until it had 450k original turbo.

I’ve personally used the Borg Warner EFR series (the 6258) and the performance is incredible. I’ve never actually driven anything that has spooled so well and so quickly. It completely changes the driving characteristics with the amount of torque you get from these EFR’s.

I suppose the downside is they use dual ceramic ball bearing housings. It’s how they spool to fast. If your turbo fails, it’ll be very hard to find anyone that rebuilds them.

I would suggest a ball bearing turbo like the vf52 and a protune. It makes it much more reliable and wakes the car up since it has the same engine and came as the sti, but a tiny sleeve bearing turbo that spools before the cam. I'm really happy with my vf52.

Amazingly the 1.6 turbo in the Fiesta ST feels as if it has zero turbo lag and has a very nice torque curve. It really feels like a V6, not a turbo 4.

I have driven the 2.7TT in the Edge Sport, and I found it very impressive.

I'm APR stage 2 currently waiting on a Golf R Turbo and a tune for that! Currently limited by my tires and suspension(only lowering springs, still too soft)

Turbo was replaced in January this year with 68k miles. Engine light just came back on today, willing to bet it's the same damn code too - done with this car.

i hated how little power the stock turbo put out

VW has replaced 2 internal turbos on my wife’s 2018 manual Golf. One at 46k and another at 103k.