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Yes that the old tensioner that will eventually grenade the engine. Only the US and a couple of other countries have some sort of recall, but you won't get Skoda to acknowledge it exists even if you type it in Google Infront of them. You just have to suck it up and pay for the K revision tensioner and costs £700-£1100 depending on where you go. Or about £300-£400 in Genuine parts if you do it yourself. You just have the pcv, rear main seal, intake manifold, balance shafts to add to the list as well 🤣. Bought my 2009 car in 2018 for 4k and have probably spent 5k on the engine 🤦

I get what youre saying, but Audi specifically used different pistons in the longitudinal engines so the pistons fix doesnt necessarily cover the rest of the VAG group. Uprated piston rings 100% for all VAG gen 1/2 engines as i have done it myself, but not pistons for a daily car unless you're forging it as it isnt worth it. I rebuilt my engine in 2019 and its not worth it day to day especially as people are starting to get balance shaft failures just to add to the timing chain woes.

Thats sounds like your rear mainseal has failed. It can do it after a pcv failure or the glue on the seal just seperates due to age (the new revision is sandwiched toprevent this happening). Its an easy fix albeit expensive labour costs. My clutch was covered in oil so needed replacing as well. Heres me diagnosing mine after two dealers and two indy garages couldnt work out what the problem was. https://youtu.be/dTRXkwSwbxM

Many people suffering balance shaft failures on these yet? I just started tracking my 2009 ccza 2.0 tsi and got low oil pressure. Dropped the sump and found small crumbly type pieces of aluminium (nothing ferrous). Going into a specialist this week hopefully, but believe one of the balance shafts has seized due to high oil temp and possible starvation when i went hard round a turn. Seems to be creeping into road cars as well depending on servicing and other factors. What an engine eh? Haha Previously has new rear main seal and pcv due to failure, new intake valves due to the failure and preventative maintenance of camchain and tensioner as well as bearing and piston rings whilst they were in there. Spent more on the engine than what the car is worth since i bought in December 2019. Good blog from a garage regarding the balance shafts going with almost identical pictures of debris to mine. http://robisonservice.blogspot.com/2019/06/timing-chain-and-balance-shaft-failures.html

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