hello,

recently when i start my car, sometimes even when it's not a cold start, and i rev to reverse or whatever, i can hear a slight rattle which is coming from the exhaust and seems to be in time with the turbo spooling (it's a td04 so obvs it spools a little real quick).

you can hear it on deceleration too if the revs are high enough, just a slight rattling which seems to me like it matches the turbine spinning

are these signs shaft play?
car is slightly more laggier but i haven't noticed a huge difference in top end (because it has none anyway)

I've heard major shaft play with bigger turbo's HKS2835 and they sound a lot worse, but then again they're much bigger turbo's
bear in mind the turbo's done 260 odd thousand km's now

thanks in advance

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also it disappears once you've been driving it for long enough, i.e it heats up

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I'd check the heat shields first. They can get a nice resonance up and rattle away.

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as in the turbo heat shield that goes on the top?

yeah i don't have one of them

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Check uppipe heat shields then...

yeah the lower heatshild it held on by a couple of bolts that also holds the top heatshield, if you're missing the top one it could be the lower one rattling

+1 to yo heatshieldz

not heat shields just checked

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I had the same noise a few years back on my old bugeye.
- was my clutch on its last legs - few days before it died.

If your clutch is ok I'd be checking all bolts and sheilds (put your head under the bonnet and get a friend to rev it/start it do what ever)

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the other thing i have seen happen is the washer on the waste gate where it seals to the exhaust housing of turbo comes loose and rattles

deffs not the clutch, it's coming from the exhaust and you can hear it, sounds like a turbine spinning on a rusty bearing

checked the washer on the waste gate and it's not that

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