lifespan of KO3 unchipped!!!

[JonnyX]

If you use a good quality synthetic oil, warm up and down properly and change the oil regularly (i.e. none of
that Longlife <beep>) then they should last virtually forever.

[Peakz]

Nearly 135K and still going strong, looks to have done mainly motorway miles judging by its condition.
Dealer serviced most of its life too though it's now fettled by MRC

[searider]

105000 miles with no problems. No smoking. No oil burn.

So, looking at the results so far it would appear that KO3s failing is over hyped - most of us have over 100000 miles with no problems.

[buzzard]

that is what i was interested to see.
done 70k now and have felt nervous since a total loss of boost a few weeks ago....
checked it on me vagcom......turned out to be implausable signal from throttle pedal.....its not returned since.

[Peakz]

I too was misled by the doom-mongers, mechanical sympathy obviously plays a large part on turbo longevity.

Yesterday whilst doing a few FATS runs at MRC we heard a feint metallic noise which sounded much like turbo wear, turned out to be a combination of missing O-ring on the MAF and a loose heat shield. Once these issues were put right it was fine again.

[S4TAN]

What were your FATS times dude?

[Peakz]

Ze FATS time ist on der MRC vebziten http://www.mrctuning.com/fatsview.php?carselect=B5%20S4

Mine mustered 6.233.

[S4TAN]

Das ist der megacrappen FATSen timen - mach schnell und getten zie das re-map du ober-schweinhund!

[buzzard]