Nic Barnes 
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Mine exploded. My garret has taken a shit load of abuse.
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jamied 
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Chinese stuff gets a lot of bad press but my experiences with it have been quite good, price is always far better even with big delivery costs
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Nic Barnes 
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I have a genuine tial wastegate and tbh that fell to bits. 
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adiohead 
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quote: Originally posted by Nic Barnes 
Mine exploded. My garret has taken a shit load of abuse. 
   
 
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1936851  
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Nic Barnes 
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I could find a similar thread about fender guitars but you know, internet lies to people.
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adiohead 
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Mine are USA made   
 
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Nic Barnes 
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Search John, sorry I meant google for USA fender manufacturing problems. Shocking.
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adiohead 
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I searched and couldn't find anything?   
 
Gibson had a load of wood taken by the FBI, lol. 
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antnee 
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The guy that runs R tech is running some VW 20VT engines on chinese turbos at over 400bhp and says they are fine
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BarnshaW 
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they maybe fine but for how long? they have much less testing and stringent quality checking on the chinese turbos, you can be lucky and get an OK one or be unlucky and it fall to bits causing mega damage. 
 
not worth risking it in my opinion, would rather buy a second hand unit then a chinese copy. 
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VrsTurbo 
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quote: Originally posted by BarnshaW 
they maybe fine but for how long? they have much less testing and stringent quality checking on the chinese turbos, you can be lucky and get an OK one or be unlucky and it fall to bits causing mega damage. 
 
not worth risking it in my opinion, would rather buy a second hand unit then a chinese copy.  
   
 
Can say that about anything though....
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BarnshaW 
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well no, theres probably a considerably less failure rate of a decent made turbo such as garrett, FP, BW etc compared to a cheap TD06 20g Ebay jobbie. 
 
and if you have spent alot of money on your car why skimp on something which if goes wrong could be catastrophic
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Steve 
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Like when nic barnes fitted a chinese oil pump   what was he thinking
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Nic Barnes 
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i wanted to see if the engine still ran and fine and wasn't damaged so i did just that.  
 
Edit, it was from autopumps uk, which I've no idea where it was manufactured. No need to spam this thread Steve. 
 
[Edited on 17-04-2012 by Nic Barnes]
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Steve 
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Ok m8
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3CorsaMeal 
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Yeah Steve, You trolling troll from trollsville
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