Originally Posted by thezman

well most likely the new turbo is going to be even more expensive. in my experience there is no such thing as a low price turbo. especially when you are talking about a add-on for a car that never had a turbo to begin with. If you go to a Cheap shop you will get shoddy workmanship a good way to avoid this is look around the shop is the place fairly clean? is there insulation falling out of the walls? ok there are going to be car parts laying here and there but do they look like they go with the cars near them? If the proprietor is sporting a ragged 3 day beard and looks like he's been wearing the same shirt for 2 days strait go elsewhere. For my car i'm fond of going to shops that do work on the exotics, BMW, Merce, land rover, Jags, etc they tend to be more competent, have clean organized shops all the mechanics have haircuts and trimmed facial hair. They also cost more BUT they stand behind their work, and will do the work in a timely manner, and its done well when they get done with it. (still less than a Dealership though.)