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I've run into a problem when removing my bumper. Had it off before without any issue but this time the 2 top clips were my issue. One of them released fine when pressed down but the other one snapped when I pushed down on it amd now I can't think of any way of releasing that one side. Has anyone had this issue before or can anyone think how it can be done?

Yeah its strange, the car is driving perfectly at the moment. I'll update here when i have any more news on this. Thanks for your help.

Just watched that video from the humble mechanic... How does that balance shaft liner make its way into the oil sump? Crazy

Thanks a million, now to figure out how that ended up breaking and how much of a job it is to fix it.

Thats the part I'm sure... Fair play, how did you do that? 🙂

Yes, this and the other thread are the one and the same issue. Decided to post the issue separatly as i disnt want to be hijacking the other thread as it wasn't originally about that issue. I had thought until the other day that it was a tensioner or guide but the shapes of the parts don't match... It has me stumped at the moment. Ive it booked into Skoda in a couple of weeks to do a diagnostic and have a look at the timing chain area as much as they possibly can without ripping half the engine apart.

No part numbers, just a grid with some consecutive numbers like dates or something and then an Audi symbol and the letters WFN.... Thats all...

Just before Christmas last year my battery needed replacing so I brought the car to my usual Garage and they replaced the start /stop battery. After picking up the car i had driven only about 30 mins up the road and i got lights on the dash... Amber EPC anf caution light i thnk it was and the car went into limp mode. Turned off the engine and everything was back to normal. Brought it back to the garage that week and they plugged it in and after doing the same thing multiple times that week they said it showed up as an oil pressure switch malfunction. Replaced oil pressure switch but did not solve the problem. Ended up bringing the car to another garage to get looked at and they serviced the oil and filter and plugged it in and said the same, oil pressure switch malfunction and they said it didnt look as if either of the pressure switches had been replaced previously. So i went and ordered the pressure switches ans changed them myself, amd still it didnt solve the issue. So jump ahead to last week when i brought the car to a mechanic friend of mine and he suggested that next thing he would suggest is to drop the sump as maybe the oil pickup ia getting clogged with sludge. So we dropped the sump only to find loads of bits of broken black plastic. At first thinking it was part of the baffle but the baffle was fine. Nothing else obvious that it could have been. We cleaned it all out and ever since the car has been running great but its bugging me that we didnt figure out what that black plastic was. After looking online i thought i had figured it out, thinking it was a broken chain tensioner or guide. But then i tried to piece back together the bits of broken black plastic to see if there was any shape or size to help figure out what it was. It seems to be about the circumference of a toilet roll so i stuck some of the pieces to one with double sided tape. Im still none the wiser so here are some pics of it... Any ideas welcomed...

205000 kms on the clock, I've had it 3 years.

Yeah I think so too... I dont think any got ingested as the gauze in the oil pickup stopped it all. Any ideas what the cost would be for that kind of job?

Yeah i think its most probably part of the oil pump chain tensioner... Apparently the original ones were black and the revised ones are white plastic.

Update on this issue: Myself and a friend got the car up on a lift, drained the oil after running Engine flush through it and then dropped the sump. When the sump came down we found a load of bits of black plastic. Thought it was part of the baffle at first but none of it was broken so we were stumped. Put everything back together and filled with new oil and filter and its as good as new. But i went looking online then to see where the plastic could have come from. And from what ive found i think its part of a chain tensioner from either the oil pump chain or the timing chain.

Yeah this was a scan from a couple of months ago. I must rescan and see what pops up. I changed out two of the three oil pressure switches. There is one more I have to change but need to get access to the area.

These are the codes I got off a simple obd reader at home. Don't know what the garage found exactly.

Anyone have any more info on this issue? I have a 2014 Petrol Vrs and since before Christmas I've having the same issues. When I drive the car on.... Limp mode kicks in along with the epc light and the engine revs not above 4000rpm message... Pull over and restart the car and all is back to normal. Sometimes I get the auto start/stop error message too. Both garages ive brought it to say its most probably the oil pressure switch but when changed this didnt fix the problem. I'm hoping this might be something I can fix myself but can't figure out if its possible to change the actuator or if the turbo needs changed or if I can just lubricate the actuator rod as I've read somewhere. If anyone has any more info I'd greatly appreciate it.