Ed Poore

Well the filter looks to be in one piece but since I don't know what these ones look like (I've rebuilt a Series III but since the 110 had a full service history I've been keeping it that way so haven't tinkered as much as usual). So it looks like something might have been dropped in by the garage, that's going to be a fun conversation with them. I doubt it was something lodged there before because as I mentioned I've covered a stupid amount of miles in it since I bought it (20k since last May) and there was some not particularly gentle off roading and green-laning over the winter. The week before the service I was staying on Bisley camp in Surrey for a club's Easter training week and spent the time towing a trailer around the tracks there and again it was taking some serious knocks from potholes etc so that should have dislodged anything. Then the 300 miles driven on the way home to Wales before taking it for a service so given that I'm fairly certain anything that might have been lodged there since I bought it would have worked its way loose before yesterday.

Thanks anyway. I might be able to whip off the filter from a 300Tdi Disco we have lying around and have a looksie.

Any chance you could provide a photo of that? If that's the case then it's almost certainly the garages fault.

I should have mentioned but yes it was on the intake side. The service involved changing the air filter so may well have dropped something in. I'd be surprised if it was there before because with the greenlaning etc it's had plenty of knocks and I've covered 20k in the last 9 months so the timing is too close to be a coincidence in my opinion. Thanks for confirming what I thought was that it is FOD so to speak.

Hello all, I have a 300Tdi 110 CSW that is currently on ~90k and went for a service recently. There were no strange noises from the turbo prior to the service (having just covered 1000 miles the week before) and as usual was pulling like a train up big hills. The only thing of note was a vibration which appeared quickly and was traced down to a worn / broken UJ (subsequently fixed in the service). When I picked it up from the service the turbo whine was a little louder than normal but nothing excessive. After ~100 miles I was on the way to a shoot and there was a clunk which I thought was a bolt or something from the road (still could have been). A mile or two down the road there was a "twang" followed by a loss in power on the way up a short but sharp hill. I limped to the shoot which was just down the road and before returning home checked through the pipework - there was no oil in the pipes and none looked de-laminated, thinking it might be the wastegate stuck shut (and not knowing where it was at the time) I drove home slowly on back roads at more or less a tick-over trying not to spin up the turbo too much. When I got back home I had a more thorough look and with a mirror subsequently found the damage in the attached picture. Now the question is - that ring of metal that looks like it caused all the damage - is that a foreign object or part of the turbo itself?