Smoking and Turbo Seals

[AD07]

These seals are really turning into an epic Mazda failure.......

[MattMPS3]

Umm, yeah, and they still refuse to issue a recall.

[tone]

mazda artarmon have never heard of this ever happening. asked me to bring the car in next week. Will put the bov and cai back to stock I think.

if noone wants to help. well ill just buy a gt3071 or something. still would rather the WTY go through.

[MattMPS3]

Maybe when you go in there refer them to the TSB number

[kmh001]

mazda artarmon have never heard of this ever happening.

That's the standard Mazda reply to everything. It's item 1 on the Mazda employee induction.

I saw the same thing happen to Mel's car on the weekend after a period of idling. Very likely to be turbo seals.

[Wardski]

Another good reason to go CES. Still enough backpressure to seat the seals properly. I've done over 12,000km with the CES, and still no smoke.

[Nexus]

These seals are really turning into an epic Mazda failure.......

I've yet to hear of a stocker having this problem.
I've heard of a LOT of aftermarket TBE's having this issue.

I've seen CES quoted re: TBE as saying "great care is needed during fitment to avoid damaging the turbo seals"

Another good reason to go CES. Still enough backpressure to seat the seals properly. I've done over 12,000km with the CES, and still no smoke.

Good choice of service providor, is my thought.

[blackbetty]

My car is completely stock, only changed the wheels, thats it and it just happened to mine on the weekend ... its an oct 05 build

It was a huge thick white cloud of smoke, I could hardly see the other mazda guys behind me in the carpark and smelt so bad like burning plastic, I initially raced around to my boot and opened it thinking something plastic in there had caught on fire ... it was so thick it was hard to see at first where all the smoke was coming from

[Nexus]

My car is completely stock, only changed the wheels, thats it and it just happened to mine on the weekend ... its an oct 05 build

It was a huge thick white cloud of smoke, I could hardly see the other mazda guys behind me in the carpark and smelt so bad like burning plastic, I initially raced around to my boot and opened it thinking something plastic in there had caught on fire ... it was so thick it was hard to see at first where all the smoke was coming from

So it does happen to stockers. How many K's?

[blackbetty]

31,000 K's I got it new in May '07