Knighty66

Booked in this week already, felt like a good idea to get the local garage to check it over! Cheers

Thank you to everyone who helped on this one, I've leaned a great deal and, am pleased to report, fixed the problem. Timing had slipped ever so slightly so that, with the locking pin in the cam, the crank pin was about 2mm out (pic attached). Loosened the camshaft nuts with the pin in and turned the crank until pin dropped in. Tightened everything right up and running as normal and thankfully no evidence of black doom or metallic bits in the oil! Got lucky there!

Hi all, Looking for a bit of advice on some rough running that's suddenly occurred on my 2008 Octavia 1.9 tdi please. This forum has been brilliant over the past 4 years helping me maintain the car but sadly I'm a bit stumped on this one! Car has 200k miles on it but has been regularly serviced, did timing belt water pump etc around 2k miles ago. Running great but with the occasional tenancy to idle high around 1100 rpm when warm which is the only issue I can think of. On pulling into the drive yesterday the engine suddenly started to sound like a bag of nails (audio attached). No check engine light and no fault codes on the ecu either. I have a BT adapter so if there's further diagnostics I can do to check things please let me know! Checked the forums and found that the MAF may be the culprit so took that off and gave it a good spray out with some contact cleaner but that doesn't seem to have fixed it either. Seems quite happy to rev but reluctant to do any more miles in it if there's something really up with it, having worries that somehow I didn't torque the bolts up correctly (99% sure that I did) and that maybe the timing has slipped... Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Cheers Bagofnailsidle.mp3