Hi All,
So the reliability of the CDNC 2.0T fsi engine strikes again. I bought my 2010 2.0Tfsi quattro avant last October from an independent with 92k on the clock. It was in great nick, and had clearly spend the 1st 4 years of its life on the motorway. Being the fastidious sort of chap I am, I thoroughly checked the cars service history - it had been serviced by the previous owner's Audi dealer on the nose every year. I also checked to see if it had the dreaded oil consumption issue addressed, and fortunately it had the full on bottom end rebuild, new piston rings etc in April last year at 88k (6 months before I bought it) also at the previous owner's Audi dealer.
Anyway, after 10 months of ownership the car died on me on the M27 a few weeks ago. In the space of say 1 mile I had a rattle from the engine, no warning lights on the dash, and then silence and just managed to coast the car to a halt on the hard shoulder. It had to be low loaded and taken to my trusted local indy VAG specialists. They had a preliminary look at the car and couldn't hand crank the engine - it was seized.
That was last week - they have finally had a window in their workshop today and try and diagnose the failure. The got as far as removing the sparks and discovered that Spark number 2 was "excessively damaged". They then put a camera into the bore and couldn't see a piston (well it was in bits) and the conrod seemed to have excessive damage.
So I am now on the horns of a very expensive dilemma. Given that the conrods and entire bottom end were replaced about 15 months/ 12k miles ago, and its appears to be bottom end failure, there may be come back with Audi. So I've got to transport it to the local Audi Dealer (fortunately only a mile or so away from the VAG indy where is is now) and the have to pay for the investigative work\ engine strip down by the Audi workshop. Even then they may not chip in for a replacement engine. The clutch is likely to be borked as well, and who knows what may have happened to the rest of the drive train?
It is still early days, and without a full strip down we won't know for sure what has caused the failure, so I will keep you posted, but it will be very interesting to see if the bottom end rebuild being carried out to fix the chocolate piston ring problem, only then contributes to another.
I would be interested to hear if anyone else has had this problem (saw a similar thread on The B7 2.0 TFsi with Cam followers - of course the B8 has a can chain,. not belt).
So the reliability of the CDNC 2.0T fsi engine strikes again. I bought my 2010 2.0Tfsi quattro avant last October from an independent with 92k on the clock. It was in great nick, and had clearly spend the 1st 4 years of its life on the motorway. Being the fastidious sort of chap I am, I thoroughly checked the cars service history - it had been serviced by the previous owner's Audi dealer on the nose every year. I also checked to see if it had the dreaded oil consumption issue addressed, and fortunately it had the full on bottom end rebuild, new piston rings etc in April last year at 88k (6 months before I bought it) also at the previous owner's Audi dealer.
Anyway, after 10 months of ownership the car died on me on the M27 a few weeks ago. In the space of say 1 mile I had a rattle from the engine, no warning lights on the dash, and then silence and just managed to coast the car to a halt on the hard shoulder. It had to be low loaded and taken to my trusted local indy VAG specialists. They had a preliminary look at the car and couldn't hand crank the engine - it was seized.
That was last week - they have finally had a window in their workshop today and try and diagnose the failure. The got as far as removing the sparks and discovered that Spark number 2 was "excessively damaged". They then put a camera into the bore and couldn't see a piston (well it was in bits) and the conrod seemed to have excessive damage.
So I am now on the horns of a very expensive dilemma. Given that the conrods and entire bottom end were replaced about 15 months/ 12k miles ago, and its appears to be bottom end failure, there may be come back with Audi. So I've got to transport it to the local Audi Dealer (fortunately only a mile or so away from the VAG indy where is is now) and the have to pay for the investigative work\ engine strip down by the Audi workshop. Even then they may not chip in for a replacement engine. The clutch is likely to be borked as well, and who knows what may have happened to the rest of the drive train?
It is still early days, and without a full strip down we won't know for sure what has caused the failure, so I will keep you posted, but it will be very interesting to see if the bottom end rebuild being carried out to fix the chocolate piston ring problem, only then contributes to another.
I would be interested to hear if anyone else has had this problem (saw a similar thread on The B7 2.0 TFsi with Cam followers - of course the B8 has a can chain,. not belt).
