Peugeot Turbo Repair and Rebuild — PureTech, BlueHDi and HDi

Peugeot names its engines in a code that tells you more than the badge on the tailgate. Find that code and the table below takes you to your turbocharger in one step; on the BlueHDi diesels, the letters at the very end of it decide which company built the turbo.

Which Peugeot Engine Do You Have?

Peugeot fits a small number of engines across its whole range, and each has a code whose first characters name the family. The code is stamped on the engine and usually appears on service invoices, and a parts supplier can look it up from your registration.

Once you have it, read across. The last column tells you where to go next on this site.

Every 1.6 diesel Peugeot we list has its own rebuild listing, where you choose the year and power output and the price follows. The number in brackets is how many turbocharger part numbers that listing carries, a fair guide to how much the label will matter:

• Peugeot 207 1.6 (30)
• Peugeot 208 1.6 (6)
• Peugeot 308 1.6 (24)
• Peugeot 3008 1.6 (9)
• Peugeot 5008 1.6 (9)
• Peugeot Partner 1.6 (22)
• Peugeot Expert 1.6 (14)

Every other engine in the table goes through the Repair Form. Give us the engine code and a photograph of the turbo’s label, and we can confirm the unit before you post anything.

1.2 PureTech: Three Turbo Generations Under One Name

The 1.2 PureTech is a three-cylinder turbo petrol, catalogued in our fitment data for the 208, 308, 3008, 5008 and Partner. Its engine code always begins EB2, and the letters after that mark the generation. That matters because the turbocharger changed with it.

The years are the catalogue’s, not a promise about your car. Several 2018 rows carry no engine code at all, and the same reference can sit against more than one code, so the label on the unit has the final word.

Peugeot’s newer Turbo 100 badge is another 1,199 cc three-cylinder, going by Peugeot’s own published figures, and our fitment data lists no turbocharger under that name. If your car wears that badge, send us the reference from the label through the Repair Form before you post anything, and we will tell you what we can do with it.

Before a rebuilt turbo goes back on a PureTech

Two of the four recognised causes of turbocharger failure run through the oil: a supply that was interrupted, and oil that was contaminated. Both start outside the turbocharger, which is why our guide to removing and refitting a turbocharger treats the removal as the moment to find the cause.

So before a rebuilt unit goes back on, ask your garage to establish why the old one failed: the condition of the oil, the oil pressure, and the state of the feed and return lines. That diagnosis is engine work and belongs to the garage. What we add is a report of what we found inside the unit, which can help point at where the problem started.

If you are still at the symptom stage, our guide to turbo failure symptoms sorts them by where on the shaft they begin, and lists the cheaper faults that imitate a failing turbo.

1.5 and 1.6 BlueHDi: One Engine Size, Two Turbo Makers

The BlueHDi diesels are where the end of the engine code earns its place. Under one engine size and one badge, our fitment data gives each of these engines two different turbochargers from two different companies, and the suffix is what separates them.

On the 1.6, the suffix also follows the power output: the DV6FC rows sit at the top of the range in our data, with the DV6FD and DV6FE rows below them. On the 1.5, the DV5RD rows carry no power figure at all, so on that engine the code is the only handle the catalogue gives you.

Why the maker changes more than the part number

The two designs hold boost in different ways. The V in Garrett’s GTD1244VZ follows Garrett’s convention for a variable-nozzle turbine: a ring of vanes around the turbine wheel opens and closes to control boost across the rev range. The Mitsubishi TD02L11 is catalogued with a pneumatic actuator and a wastegate instead, a flap that lets exhaust gas bypass the turbine once boost reaches its target, as our Mitsubishi MHI turbo page sets out.

That means the same complaint, whether a loss of power, a boost fault or limp mode, points to different places depending on which unit you have. On the Garrett, carbon on the vanes is a candidate, and our guide to variable-nozzle turbos explains how the vane ring sticks. On the Mitsubishi, the wastegate can and its rod are worth checking before the turbo comes off, and our wastegate actuator page explains why the setting of that rod matters as much as the part.

It changes the replacement question too. In our data a Mitsubishi reference begins 49 and a Garrett one is a six-digit number with a four-digit suffix, so a quote in one maker’s numbering is not a quote for your car if your label is in the other’s. A rebuild removes that match from the job, because the unit we work on is the one that came off your engine.

The 1.6 BlueHDi turbos in the 208, 308, 3008, 5008, Partner and Expert are covered by the model listings linked above. Choose by year and power output, and let the label confirm it. The 1.5 has no model listing, so send its details through the Repair Form.

1.6 HDi: The Engine We Cover in Depth Elsewhere

If your engine code begins DV6 with no F after it, such as DV6ATED4, DV6TED4, DV6UTED4, DV6C or DV6DTED, you have the earlier 1.6 HDi, the same engine used in Citroën and Ford models, and in our data it carries Mitsubishi TD025 and TD02 units or a Garrett GT1544V. Why these turbochargers fail, and what has to be put right on the engine first, is set out on our page on 1.6 HDi oil-supply failure, and our page on the same 1.6 engine in the Ford Focus covers a second cause. For a Peugeot, the model listings above take the order.

Peugeot Partner and Expert Vans

The Partner and Expert share their engines with the cars, so the sections above apply to them. What differs is how far back each van’s history runs, and which of its engines our listings cover.

Partner

Our data lists three engine families in the Partner. The 1.2 PureTech petrol appears on 2016 rows with the Garrett NGT1341. The 1.6 HDi appears under more engine codes than in any other Peugeot we list, among them DV6ATED4, DV6BTED4 and DV6UTED4, with Mitsubishi TD025 and TD02 units. The 1.6 BlueHDi DV6FD and DV6FE carry the Mitsubishi 49172-03000.

Our Peugeot Partner 1.6 listing covers the diesels. The petrol Partner is not on it, so send its details through the Repair Form.

Expert

The Expert runs from the 1.9 diesel to the 2.0 BlueHDi in our data, and its turbochargers change with each engine:

• 1.9 diesel (XUD9TE): a Garrett TB0280, 454086-0001, on 1996 rows
• 2.0 HDi (DW10ATED, DW10BTED, DW10CTED): a Garrett GT1546S, 706978-0001, with a K03, 5303-970-0018, listed against a 1998 DW10ATED
• 1.6 HDi and 1.6 BlueHDi: Mitsubishi TD025 and TD02 units, and the TD02L11 49172-03000 on the DV6FDU
• 2.0 BlueHDi (DW10FC, DW10FD, DW10FE): a BorgWarner BV43, 5303-970-0265 from 2012 and 5303-970-0634 from 2016

Our Peugeot Expert 1.6 listing covers the 1.6 diesels. The 1.9 and 2.0 go through the Repair Form with the reference from the label.

Keeping a working van off the road for as little time as possible

For a van that earns its keep, the number that matters is days off the road. Bench time is typically one to three working days from the day the unit arrives; add postage each way and the time taken to remove and refit it. Book the refit for when the rebuilt unit is back in hand, not for the day it leaves, and have the oil and the feed and return lines ready at the same time.

Independent garages use the same service for their customers’ vans. The Boxer uses larger diesels than the Partner and Expert and has its own page: Boxer, Citroën Relay and Fiat Ducato turbo repair.

Our Peugeot Turbo Rebuild, Step by Step

The route is the same for every engine on this page, whichever company built the turbocharger.

1. Tell us about the car. On a 1.6 diesel, order on your model’s listing. For anything else, complete the online Repair Form with the registration, the engine code, any fault codes you have read and a photograph of the turbo’s label.
2. Send it complete. Leave the actuator, wastegate can and linkage attached. They are part of how the unit holds boost, and they are checked as part of the rebuild.
3. Pack it well. Seal every oil and air opening, pack the unit in a rigid box so it cannot move, and put a note inside with your name, the car and the symptom. Our FAQs cover packing and postage.
4. Post it to the workshop at Unit 102 Reaver House, 12 East Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 1HX, United Kingdom.
5. We check, strip and measure. The unit is matched to your engine code and label on arrival, and if they do not agree, we contact you before any work starts. It is then stripped to component level, measured, rebuilt on genuine OE or OEM-grade or uprated components, balanced and bench-tested, typically within one to three working days.
6. Refit it with the cause put right. Fresh oil and filter, renewed oil feed and return lines, clean charge pipework, and a primed oil feed before the engine first fires. Our refit and priming guide takes you through it.

Every rebuild carries a lifetime, unlimited-mileage warranty, with no mileage cap and no time limit. For what each route costs and why, see our guide to turbo repair and replacement prices.

Peugeot Turbo FAQ

Final Thoughts

A Peugeot turbo search is shorter than the range suggests, because a handful of engine codes stand behind every model on this page. The first letters of your code take you to the right section; on the BlueHDi diesels the last letters decide whether a Garrett or a Mitsubishi is bolted to the engine, which changes what a symptom means and what a replacement has to match.

After that, the order of work matters more than the choice of part. Have the cause found and put right on the engine, then send us the turbocharger that came off it, complete and with its label photographed.