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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: Pez on 24 July 2013, 19:05

Title: Part Question
Post by: Pez on 24 July 2013, 19:05
Anyone know where i can get a timing chain kit for a v6? Or know the price of one from VW (they're shut at the moment). Decided that the engine management light being illuminated and the sound of timing chain rattle isn't a good thing. On the up side i've been quoted £200+Vat for labour.
Title: Re: Part Question
Post by: barrym381 on 24 July 2013, 19:12
Tps mate an it's usually the tensioner that goes 1st on these,sure you can check with vagcom if the chain is stretched  :smiley:
Title: Re: Part Question
Post by: Pez on 24 July 2013, 20:02
Tps mate an it's usually the tensioner that goes 1st on these,sure you can check with vagcom if the chain is stretched  :smiley:
I got the code Crankshaft position sensor bank 2 P1347, that generally means the timing out? Do you know if the tensioner can be replaced fairly easily and if the tensioner would cause the timing to be out?
Title: Re: Part Question
Post by: Wayne on 24 July 2013, 21:26
On the up side i've been quoted £200+Vat for labour.

Seems cheap do they know how involved it is to replace it.
Title: Re: Part Question
Post by: damien010685 on 25 July 2013, 17:35
£200 + Vat i got quoted not far off a grand but it the end it wasnt the timing chain... Id be questioning that price as i know a guy with an r32 up here who did it and he diddnt see much change from a grand either... its a fair job as far as i know
Title: Re: Part Question
Post by: gazareth on 25 July 2013, 17:55
is it not a gearbox out job as the chain is on clutch side?
Title: Re: Part Question
Post by: mike1990 on 25 July 2013, 18:19
is it not a gearbox out job as the chain is on clutch side?
The timing chain is normally on the opposite side of the clutch, the front of the engine
Title: Re: Part Question
Post by: barrym381 on 25 July 2013, 18:27
is it not a gearbox out job as the chain is on clutch side?
The timing chain is normally on the opposite side of the clutch, the front of the engine
not on a mk4 v6  :wink:
Title: Re: Part Question
Post by: Pez on 25 July 2013, 18:32
it's a mate of mine, he quoted me for 4 hours labour. He worked for an independent garage, then moved to working for halfords and now hes back at an independent. I told him it was a gearbox out job too..
Title: Re: Part Question
Post by: mike1990 on 25 July 2013, 18:38
is it not a gearbox out job as the chain is on clutch side?
The timing chain is normally on the opposite side of the clutch, the front of the engine
not on a mk4 v6  :wink:
Ahh, fair enough :)