My 2.0 tsi that is being replaced as the pistons said hello to the valves starting the car one morning

Belts, very unfairly got a bad name, mostly due to human stupidity, incompetence and greed.

If they were change per manufacturers schedule, as was always claimed by the previous owner/vendor, AND they had been correctly fitted and tensioned, with a new plastic tensioner pully.(& some manufacturers dropped the ball there)

And NOT used to drive ancillaries such a alternators and water pumps.Use another belt, please manufacturers.

They were the best engineering solution.

in my (non mechanical Engineer) opinion.

marcus

Perhaps I expressed my underlying thinking poorly.

At 54, having lost most of my youthful niaviety, and realizing that everything has a cost and must be paid for.

I suppose I really intended to say "within the cost constraints" of commercial motor engineering.

Especially in respect of the ever increasing "disposable" almost unfixable nature of current auto engineering.

Marcus

I'm looking to buy a 2010/2011 octavia 1.4tsi... I was always advised that these were chain driven... Or are we talking later models?

 

I have a 2011 1.4TSI... it has a chain (I'm reliably told)