MKZ turbos in stock

I dont care for LKQ much, we buy from them and almost every time the parts are damaged in one way or another. Got so bad that we stopped using them for the most part except recon wheels. You order anything like a turbo from them who knows what you may get. They have stock pictures, so think about it, take the best looking part and shoot it. Now use that image for all your listings regardless of the millage on the part. You'll end up with parts that have say 10,000 miles on them and then another listing will have the same pic, but the part will have over a 100,000 miles on it. It's shady sales. Also look at the motors they sell, you'll see a lot of them have way over a 100,000 miles on them, and yet they want big money. I bought my turbos from a yard that list on eBay, they where what was in the photos, and not some beat to death looking part. Good example was the guy that blew his motor, ordered one from LKQ, and he gets an engine with the timing cover busted where the motor mount goes. That's a bad sale, if we got something like that, it would go right back on the truck. We always look stuff over anymore with them, and have had to send back a lot of stuff that the guy that inspected it before it was packaged up and loaded must be blind as a damn bat.

I remember that situation with the damaged motor mount! What a nightmare!

I got my turbos from the Triplett Blvd., Akron OH LKQ and they were my scrap account at the time. This particular salvage yard was always a good yard to start with, going back to the early 1980’s and when LKQ bought them, they kept all the people and management in place. It’s continued to be a good source to deal with. That said, when I bought my turbos, they came from Michigan. They were in fantastic shape except that they sent two right (iirc) side turbos. They had different barcodes and sku numbers but they were definitely identical. Unfortunately it was my mechanic who figured it out (luckily, before he removed the stock pieces), so I had to do a lot of driving back and forth to get the turbos straightened out. To LKQ Tripletts credit, they overnighted a replacement and before they called me in they realized it was wrong too, but they got on the phone and worked through it with the other yard who overnighted the correct turbo finally. My guy there said there was a major misidentification going on all over their network over the FWD platform turbos! In the end I got one turbo with <1000 miles on it and another with 13k on it. But both were in very good condition and I’ve had zero troubles with them since.

Here's what mine looked like out of the box, only have 1300 miles on them, only have $580 in both of them.