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I am sure most of the veteran members are going to chime and point to search. I have searched, and I have read quite a bit. Background- I have driven diesels for the better part of 20 years. Lots of VW’s, Cummins, powerstroke, and we recently just added an ecodiesel 2022. All of our diesels...

Having been a VW enthusiast for a couple decades, would you mind sharing some examples of water cooled turbos on any VW/Audi platform Pre mk7? Seriously just interested in learning about it. If retrofitting a water cooled turbo wasn’t such a headache I would have a cr190 turbo on my cr140’s…

It is pretty interesting to me that turbo-timers haven’t become a standard thing from the factory. I’m sure it kills the fuel economy averaging etc. and this is why it’s never turned into a “norm”… sure would be nice though.

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I think we are confused on terms here when I say “water cooled” I mean literally- the new CR190 turbos have coolant that circulates through the turbo for cooling. This is new as of mkvii tdi’s… When you are explaining “water cooled” you are referring to water cooled motors- with use of a...

I can’t comment on the newer cr190 turbos that have incorporated water cooling in the mk7+ tdi’s… But I can tell you that modern 3.0 ecodiesels with dpf scr systems run silly hot…. Our “average” egt temp Pre dpf is 700* and regularly visits 1300, max I have seen is 1500. It’s absolutely silly...