2005 Subaru Legacy 2.5 GT blown turbo

This is very common problem on a 2005-2008 2.5 GT.

If your car makes a High pitched whoosh under boost and then looses power or the car starts to sound like you are shaking a metal can filled with ball bearings... STOP driving it immediately!

This is the sound of the turbo after it breaks. If you continue to drive it, it will blow apart and take out your engine, costing you WAY more to fix. Our guess is that this happens normally on GTs that haven't been properly maintained, and the turbo becomes "starved" of oil.

This car was purchased and the turbo blew on the drive home. When we changed the oil while doing the turbo swap, the oil was WAY over the change period.

We used a brand new IHI VF40 turbo from Subaru, but used VF40s can be had for $200-$400, in very good shape.

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• Subaru
• Legacy
• Gt
• 2.5
• 2.5gt
• Blown
• Turbo
• Vf40
• Swap
• Oil
• Custom
• Boxer
• Motorsports
• Broken
• Fix

[akajambas]

Haha I'm confused why its common problem if it was starved of oil and way overdue from basic maintenance.

Another other problems that are common tho?