Surgery Time!!! Turbo and Exhaust gasket replacement

As planned on 04/05/2013, Saturday early morning i took it for surgery at Wyn's. Did call him in the morning and made an appointment.

As per my previous post, the CEL kept coming back and the doctor says its nothing serious but the exhaust gaskets needed to be changed and thats the reason for the error code being thrown on to the dash. More about this here.

Reached there around 10ish, the first thing they did is to open up her front and gave a good blowww with a huge fan...once she is warmed down, with no mercy they started to rip her apart.

Both of them started from top and worked their way down, first with removing all the covers, intake pipes, air filter, air box etc.

They they hoisted her up and disconnected the water and oil linkage to the turbo. While doing this water and oil will come off so they held a container and retained all the fluids to be inserted back.

I did not really pay much attention to what they were doing as i did not want to be disturbing them or get into their way. If i were to stand there and look sure enough my itchy mouth will start asking questions and soon they will be annoyed. 

After about 30 minutes the supplier comes and deliver the goodies...

soon after about an hour the turbo and exhaust manifold is out...time for me to snooze around..first time seeing the blower :-)

Here is the softy 12t turbo, thinking of man'ing him up to a 14t...hmm sounds like alot of money..

and the culprit...

As you can see one of the gasket is broken, well after 9 years of blowing hot gasses over 100 000 km i guess it is time for a replacement.

They also replaced the turbo gasket, no picture of that.

As soon as the sun reached center of the sky, he was all done and fired her up. No issues starting, and it was idling perfectly fine.

The codes were checked again and cleared off.

Wyn did more checks and found that the belt tensioner was making slight sounds of wearing off. Looks like it cant hold the stiffness any longer. So thats in my next list as well.

Me and Wyn took a long test drive and tested out the car. So far all seems good, need to drive it for a couple of days and see if anything pops up.

Damage:

1. Gasket   RM 170 (2 exhaust gasket we not changed, hence the cheaper price)

2. Workmanship RM 250 ( i guess for half day job its ok la)

Total damage RM 420

Worth the damage or not only time will speak.

Next things to fix/do:

1. Steering Rack cover

2. Belt Tensioner

3. Service AC

4. Suspension

5. Bushing

6. All parts related to its arms and suspension

7. Rear passenger power window

8. Tint

9. Multimedia system

10. Rims + Tyre

The above list is in no order but the ones on bold is on priority. 

After a long day, as a reward, she got washed and wiped cleaned dry by 2 hookers....