Genuinely interested to hear why you think the turbo would blow up!
My original comment was a little tongue in cheek. However Matt Black on here runs a Renault breakers yard. He said the DCI turbo was a very popular purcahse (for a major engine component), I would guess that means they break a lot more often than they should and increasing boost is only going to accelerate that failure rate.
vincent, these boys dont know whats going on with the dci's treat them with respect and service them regularly, you can't go wrong. they hear one guy have a nightmare probably because the cars been abused and they all jump on the bang wagon due to the fact they dont have a clue.
But then aren't you commenting from
your personal experience? Unless you own 3 and have driven them all 50k miles then it doesn't really say much about the car in general terms.
For the record I had a dci 80 for 2 years. Loved it. Would buy another if it made sense to have 2 cars. Handled lovely (it was a dynamique with
sport suspension) and had enough power to cruise at any speed it was capable of...
HOWEVER. I didn't buy it with performance being on my must have list. If you want a performance orientated car and the dci bores you and you have money to spend on cars (because the DCI might aswell be free to run when you compare it to almost anything else) then it doesn't make sense to keep and modify it.
Further more, I tried various tuning options on my DCI. I had a K&N filter and can't really comment on what that did as I put it on as soon as I got the car. SS Exhaust, noticably improved mpg and responsiveness.
Also tried a tuning box which was s**t. Yes it did increase power, but I could only come to that conclusion with a stop watch. It didn't feel any different, some might say that's a good thing, but I didn't like the idea of it anyway so got rid of that. I also had an ECU remap, and the torque difference was pretty impressive. The car was MUCH louder (partly the exhaust coming into it's own compared to the stock unit), instead of feeling pretty progressive (i.e dreadful) throughout the rev range as normal, it had a surge of power at 2k rpm much like any other 4 cylinder diesel above 100hp.
The best example I can give is an uphill section on the A23, standard power and the car wouldn't accelerate past 90mph (when you changed into 5th it wouldn't accelerate). Remapped it went to 120 with 3 people in the car.
BIG difference. However it wasn't long before warning lights started popping up, cutting power specifically between 3.5-4k rpm, a few days later it just cut out all together on a roundabout. f**k that TBH. I turned round and drove to the garage to have the map taken off.
I'd much rather have the dci80 that I could drive at WOT everytime I need to speed up without having to worry, than have a dci110 that I need to molly coddle around and cross my fingers everytime I want to overtake.
PS My MPG went DOWN with the remap (because I was using the extra power you get), the least I got in it's lifetime was 30mpg on the Nurburgring doing 2 consecutive fast laps. When I had it remapped I managed to get 19mpg on your typical UK back road, normally it wouldn't drop below 40 on the road.