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Re: Possible New Engine Needed?
« Reply #150 on: 04 September 2013, 19:46 »
It was always a case in the car trade that if a car had a new engine it was always worth less.
All ths front end been apart and seals and paint potential damage never mind reassemble issues would scare me.
If your happy the  thats all that counts.
If it happens to mine that will be the end of mk6 for me  it would be sold. That would draw a close to any future newish VW for me.. there not what they were...


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Re: Possible New Engine Needed?
« Reply #151 on: 04 September 2013, 19:53 »
It was always a case in the car trade that if a car had a new engine it was always worth less.
All ths front end been apart and seals and paint potential damage never mind reassemble issues would scare me.
If your happy the  thats all that counts.
If it happens to mine that will be the end of mk6 for me  it would be sold. That would draw a close to any future newish VW for me.. there not what they were...

I never thought about it like that, but hopefully i'll be happy when i get it back, my initial thoughts were fix it and ditch it, but i took too long to actually find a car i was happy with, that ticked the boxes :undecided:. Anyway i've spent enough on it now this year that i couldn't stomach parting yet.

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Re: Possible New Engine Needed?
« Reply #152 on: 04 September 2013, 19:55 »
I don't think it's just the tensioner that's the problem. I've read stories of failing guides and stretched chains too. The service manager at my local dealership told me that the chain is on revision 'M', the tensioner 'K' and I forget what the guides were but they had been updated. In the end the price to change the whole lot came to £840 after some discussion. I didn't go ahead in the end as I handed them the keys at the time I ordered a MK7 a few days later (which I might see at some point in the next year!)
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Re: Possible New Engine Needed?
« Reply #153 on: 04 September 2013, 20:44 »
It was always a case in the car trade that if a car had a new engine it was always worth less.
All ths front end been apart and seals and paint potential damage never mind reassemble issues would scare me.
If your happy the  thats all that counts.
If it happens to mine that will be the end of mk6 for me  it would be sold. That would draw a close to any future newish VW for me.. there not what they were...

I never thought about it like that, but hopefully i'll be happy when i get it back, my initial thoughts were fix it and ditch it, but i took too long to actually find a car i was happy with, that ticked the boxes :undecided:. Anyway i've spent enough on it now this year that i couldn't stomach parting yet.

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so let me get this right. you have a golf with engine problems at just 33k and you don't mind paying over a grand in repairs???

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Re: Possible New Engine Needed?
« Reply #154 on: 04 September 2013, 20:58 »

so let me get this right. you have a golf with engine problems at just 33k and you don't mind paying over a grand in repairs???
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Out of warranty and yes i do mind :angry:, but what can i do about it? A new engine seems massive overkill for a tensioner, but also seems to be a common outcome. I belive they have had other engines with far less miles on them do the same.
At the end of the day its a machine, things go wrong, although design flaws should be dealt with and have been from what i read, its just a pity they didn't see fit to retro fit them all.
Hey ho, sh!t happens and it has cost me the BBS wheels i was planning, but at least it didn't fail and skip a tooth under hard acceleration away from a junction. :undecided:

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Re: Possible New Engine Needed?
« Reply #155 on: 04 September 2013, 21:14 »
but at least it didn't fail and skip a tooth under hard acceleration away from a junction. :undecided:

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It wouldn't do that because of the design.
 If you read one of my many many many many many many many many posts on how and why it fails,  ... it only fails at startup...
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Re: Possible New Engine Needed?
« Reply #156 on: 04 September 2013, 21:20 »
I think I would have just run it in to a ditch and collected the insurance. modern vws are such poor build quality and I cant understand why people keep buying them. but if people keep buying their fragile rubbish then they will just keep making it.

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Re: Possible New Engine Needed?
« Reply #157 on: 04 September 2013, 21:29 »
but at least it didn't fail and skip a tooth under hard acceleration away from a junction. :undecided:

Sandy
It wouldn't do that because of the design.
 If you read one of my many many many many many many many many posts on how and why it fails,  ... it only fails at startup...

I appreciate the expertise and have looked into the workings of the tensioner, so I understand why it is likely only to fail on start up,   But mine showed no signs of failure prior to being plugged into the diagnostics on the service , yet it had allowed the chain to eat into the inside of the casing. So it makes me wonder "what if?"

Sandy
At least that's the story I got, and the evidence seemed to support it.
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Re: Possible New Engine Needed?
« Reply #158 on: 04 September 2013, 22:28 »
I understand where you're coming from regarding the goodwill, I don't think anyone on here expected any more :rolleyes:.

You only had 33k on the clock so what will they offer someone with 60k in goodwill?


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