Exhaust gas charging - and thus a turbocharger - is usually the medium of choice if power and torque are needed fast when designing engines. In the meantime, not only are nearly all diesel engines that come off the assembly lines in Europe, North America and Japan fitted with turbochargers, an increasing number of modern downsizing petrol engines also need a turbocharger to achieve the necessary high power density.
HIGH EXCHANGE POTENTIAL
A turbocharger is designed and built to match the service life of a vehicle – foreign bodies, dirty oil, a faulty oil supply or excessively high exhaust gas temperatures, however, are frequent causes of damage that then necessitate its replacement. On account of the increasing share of turbocharged engines, experts are therefore forecasting a huge growth in turnover on the European aftermarket: The volume of repairs to vehicles between 5 and 8 years old will increase by around a third over the next 5 years and twice as many turbochargers will be replaced in vehicles that are 9 or more years old by 2015.
In the car sector, between 3 and 5 % of existing turbochargers are due for replacement each year depending on the age of the vehicle. In the heavyduty sector, in other words commercial vehicles with an annual mileage of 150,000–200,000 km as well as agricultural and construction machinery, between 5 and 10 % of turbochargers fail each year. Since such a failure during normal operation often entails high consequential costs, many operators of commercial vehicles have now taken to replacing the turbocharger routinely during maintenance work. There is thus a huge demand for high-quality turbochargers, particularly for commercial vehicles as well as agricultural and construction machinery. And MAHLE, the specialist for components in the engine and its peripherals, is one of the few manufacturers that can offer just such turbochargers on the free aftermarket.
THE MAHLE TURBOCHARGER: ULTRA-MODERN TECHNOLOGY FOR THE AFTERMARKET
MAHLE turbochargers are manufactured according to strict standards on highprecision plants using innovative materials, technologies and methods. The turbochargers in older generations of vehicles also profit from the permanent innovation process in the form of ultra-modern design methods and measuring technologies, the result of many years of experience in the development and production of high-strength turbocharger components for OEM’s. This means that all MAHLE original turbochargers – irrespective of the year in which the relevant engine applications were built – are always state-of-the-art.
ONLY AT MAHLE: EXACT FITTING MOUNTING KITS – FOR MORE REPAIR SAFETY
In order to guarantee professional and safe installation, MAHLE offers an individual mounting kit for every exhaust gas turbocharger. The kit contains all the parts specified by the OEM such as seals, gaskets, nuts, stud bolts as well as oil for the first-filling of the turbocharger. This makes the repair even safer – guaranteed: because if you use the matching MAHLE mounting kit including MAHLE oil and air filters the manufacturer’s warranty for each MAHLE original turbocharger is extended from 12 to 24 months.
MAHLE TURBOCHARGER RANGE: FROM BIG TO SMALL
Following the premiere in spring 2010 at the Bauma in Munich, the MAHLE Original turbocharger range has been constantly expanded and met with great international approval – for example at this year’s Automechanika Middle East in Dubai and the Equip Auto Algeria in Algiers. Further applications are currently being presented at the Automechanika in Frankfurt. At the time of printing MAHLE can offer a total of 14 turbochargers for agricultural and construction machinery as well as 10 for commercial vehicles. More will follow shortly.
 | Only from MAHLE: a matching mounting kit is available for every MAHLE Original turbocharger. |