tensioner failed
I just read all the posts I could find on this topic. I am supposed to be able to finally pick up 2010 GTI that had the classic failure on Wed. Mid December I drive the car about 200 miles in one day the next morning I am running errands and the second time I start the car it takes the starter 11-12 seconds to fire-up (usually takes 0.5 sec). When it does start it sounds like a 1980's camero with a 3/4 race cam. I call the dealer....it is winter in Idaho/Wyoming you probably got some bad fuel. No amount octane/injector cleaner stuff makes a difference 93 octane with no ethanol no difference either.
Car only has 18,600 miles. Was serviced by VW at 18K, oil is brand new. I pulled the codes and confirmed my suspicions of a timing issue and freaked out a little ( I got rid of an allroad I loved for this car because I could no longer trust the allroad) I love the way this car drives but I have never been past 4.5k RPM. I like it for the cornering on mountain roads, it never gets high RPMs. I also like the MT because I got burned a few times when my allroad thought it knew better which gear I should be in coming down a 10-12% grade in 5" of snow on ice coming into Jackson Hole.
Dealer keeps telling me there is no damage to rings or pistons, valves etc. only needed new timing parts. I am scared to drive it off the lot once I hit 60K.
They keep talking down to me or mumbling like I don't know engines and assuring me that a tech from VWoA has been there supervising the whole thing every time I ask about visual inspection of the head, valves, and pistons. I limped around in this thing for a while thinking it was a fuel issue now I am really nervous I had one of those valves that "barely hit the piston". Like the guy who just barely got shot in the stomach?