Hello

I am currently driving a 2008 Vrs tdi which I bought from new, done 37k and is just five months out of it's warranty. Car is currently stuck in the dealer with the Cam cover gasket leaking oil all over engine. New gasket being fitted tomorrow. I am surprised this has failed so early , has anyone had similar problems with the gaskets failing ?

Cheers

Steve

Funnily enough, I replaced a glow plug on mine this week and was impressed by the quality of the gasket.

Is yours a PD170 on a 2008? If so, have you had any injectors replaced? I am only asking as the cam cover will have been off for this. There is always the possibility it was damaged or refitted incorrectly.

It is the PD170 08 model and I've never had any engine work on it apart from service stuff. Even the staff at the dealer were suprised it had gone as they hadn't heard of it before. Obviously a weakness somewhere in the gasket. I just hope the other gaskets are made of tougher stuff Thanks for the reply

Put it this way, if I had taken my car to a main dealer they would have probably recommended fitting a new cam cover gasket when they replaced the glowplug as that is what VAG would recommend.

I didn't got to a main dealer, and the old gasket went back on. No leaks :-)

They are a good quality gasket, so I think you have just been unlucky.

Funnily enough, I replaced a glow plug on mine this week and was impressed by the quality of the gasket.

Is yours a PD170 on a 2008? If so, have you had any injectors replaced? I am only asking as the cam cover will have been off for this. There is always the possibility it was damaged or refitted incorrectly.

You replaced just 1 glow plug?? seems a bit odd i would have done them all.

You replaced just 1 glow plug?? seems a bit odd i would have done them all.

Why bother replacing them all - only 1 was showing a fault, and at about £12 each why spend an extra £36?

They only take a few minutes to change, so will swap the others if and when they fail.