Do Turbo models require longer warm-up time?

[mrbrian200]

Anything constructive would be useful. I find Taylor Swift soothes my engine .

Mine seems to like quasi disco pop and an occasional squirt of Lucas upper cylinder lubricant-injector cleaner.
Has anyone tried playing hardball with a misbehaving Volvo? You know, blasting Tool or Godsmack? I once owned an Oldsmobile... But I'd be hesitant to try that with a Volvo for fear of an immobilizer fit-fault.

[Cookie-the-Swede]

1. Wait a couple minutes after start-up before driving away in your turbo. And let it cool down for a couple minutes before shutting it off.
2. Use synthetic oil and a quality filter. And change them at least every 5,000 miles.

These two steps will make your car last longer. Period!
Arguing against doing these two (simple and free) measures is just plain stupid.

[prwood]

This is a fantastic and humorous education for me. Thank you all.

This is the first car I've owned or driven with a turbocharger (3 naturally aspirated cars before this), and beyond the basic concept of what a turbocharger does, I don't know a whole lot about them or how they work in practice. So, I do have a few other questions:

* When I'm out on the highway, I've noticed that as I slowly depress the accelerator, the RPMs smoothly accelerate up to a certain point where the pedal show some resistance. If I give it another push beyond this, RPMs jump up quite a bit and acceleration is faster. My assumption was that this was the turbocharger being activated. Is that correct? Is there a set condition under which it will activate?

* As an extension of that, how does one gauge whether a turbocharger is operating correctly?

* My car is a 2001 V70 2.4T with 213k miles. I bought it in 2015 with 189k miles, and the only mention of the turbocharger in the service records is from April 2005 at 67k miles when it says "turbocharger serviced" at the Volvo dealer. Is there some regular service I should be doing on it? What is the expected lifetime of a turbocharger?

* Supposing something did go wrong and the turbocharger stopped working, and a replacement wasn't possible, could I lock it into a mode where the exhaust was just bypassing the turbocharger and have the system function like a non-turbocharged engine?

[jonesg]

I've ordered a $50 turbo boost gauge for mine from IPD, still waiting for it.

If the turbo throws a wheel or the shaft breaks its most likely going to trip limp mode.
You'll make it home, eventually. Happened to mine, took an hour to go 10 miles.
Good synth oil is what they like. Not cheap dino oil.
Otherwise experienced volvo guys say the turbo is dependable, not prone to early failure.
And they aren't THAT hard to swap out.

THere are videos on youtube that show how to test the vac actuated waste gate arm and how to set it.
With a vac pump the actuator on the front of the turbo can be tested too.
I suspect yours is set wrong, mine does the same thing , thats why I'm getting the gauge.

[jimmy57]

If you want a warm heater then warm up the car. The engine does not need it. The gearbox oil can use a little warming if temps are less than zero F. You should avoid running engine at high load until the engine warms for a few minutes only because there MIGHT be some stresses on exhaust manifold and exhaust housing of turbo that would be less if everything was at a consistent. On 92-99 "white" engine with hydraulic tappets the exhaust valves can warm and grow in length faster than the tappet can retract and cause misfiring that is mostly unnoticeable. This was/is only ever a problem with hard acceleration withing a few second of start. This even goes away on the new 2.0 litre 4 cylinders as they use welded sheet steel exhaust manifolds. Your car has some fairly complicated strategies for quick warm up but they all require some engine load. An idling engine has the lowest load other than when coasting and thus the lowest heat production to aid warm up and the get oil temp up to shed condensation from cold start and initial cold running.

Probably building a lock when all you asked was the time.