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Well here is an update. Technician diagnosed the turbo fault by exercising the turbo controller, via simulated digital input, and the turbo vanes position would not change, 0% to 100% to 0%. The turbo was/is faulty, and the failure is the variable vanes (VGT) are stuck/difficult to move i.e...

How do you mean Tune? The GDE tune of the ECM? And also Delete, what all is involved? I do not know much about those. Thanks for your response.

Thanks for the pics. I have been thinking that this truck may not have been designed for a city driving. What can be done so that this soot build up us minimized or cleaned up? Additives, driving highway miles, or something else?

I agree that this may be a beginning of an ugly continuing situation, and that is why I am being anal about it. The real question that I have is, what is the root cause of the turbo failure? Is it manufacturing or design or installation defect of the turbo, or is this an induced failure of...

I don't know what processes they used to arrive at the failed turbo yet, I will be talking with their "experienced" technician later today to find out their diagnostics for the conclusion. When I drove it to the shop, there were strange noises coming from under the hood close to the location of...

thank you, it must be a bear of a job to lift the cab to get to it. Any suggestions for inspecting that the job was done correctly?

Did this repair solve your truck problems? And do you still own the truck, how many miles on it, and any other problems? thank you.

Last weekend I got the Service Electronic Throttle Light while driving on the freeway at about 65 mph. Took the truck to the dealer, and had the P0234 turbo over-boost code. The next day the Service Manager called and said that they diagnosed a bad turbo and they need to replace it. The truck...