Ive heard that these engines have issues? what are they???

I suggest you do a search as there are a lot of threads on this.

Mainly they break...and they break anywhere from 1 mile to 1000000 miles...they can have a full skoda history or not. Same end result. Engine fails and = massive £££££££££

is it just the 140,s

Yeah the 2.0 140bhp in the mk1 Superb. That was the only 'flavour' available in 2.0 diesel form.

Is it the same across the whole VAG range with the 2.0 140? ie A4 2.0?

No. as far as I know it only affects the Superb Mk1 due to the way the engine is mounted.

As a general rule the cars potentially affected by this are any with a VAG 2.0 TDi PD engine from around 2004 to 2007, where the oil pump is driven by a balancer shaft, so that includes: VW Passat, Audi A4, Audi A6 & Skoda Superb.

2.0 TDi PD engines which don't tend to affected by this are those where there is no balancer shaft fitted and the oil pump is driven direct by a chain i.e. Audi A3, VW Golf, VW Jetta, Skoda Octavia, various Seats.

The problem was eventually cured on the balancer shaft engines, but VAG will never say exactly from what point, and I don't think they've ever publicly admitted there was a problem with any of them!

No. as far as I know it only affects the Superb Mk1 due to the way the engine is mounted.

No it's all cars fitted with that engine, Audis, Vdubs, Skoda....

Thing is they may run for years, miles with no problems. Or they might just go bang! Lol.

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