Hi all. Well just a month away from xmas and the S4 has given up. I took the car to a well recommended indy a couple of weeks back to confirm my fears that my tensioners and guides etc need changing and agreed that I might as well have the clutch and flywheel done at the same time. Due to the fact it's costing an arm and a leg I have booked the car in for early Jan to give me chance to earn the cash. Car is a daily driver but not raced due to Surrey rush hour commutes so was hoping it would be ok until then. Start up rattle was gradually getting longer and louder and more frequent on warm re starts. I also noticed a much deeper exhaust note under load especially in the last week.
Yesterday stopped for fuel and when re started got a solid Check engine light appear. Had codes read this morning and it had camshaft over adjustment on bank 1 and bank 2 and am well aware this is caused by failing tensioners.
Cleared the codes and had a very gentle drive home from work and all was good until again a warm engine restart and CEL back on and same codes. so clearly not a one off and can't risk driving it other than when it goes in for the engine pull.
It's a good car and don't really want to change it so even though it's gonna cost nearly what the cars worth I guess that's motoring and hopefully afterwards will be a sound car again for a good few years.
Yesterday stopped for fuel and when re started got a solid Check engine light appear. Had codes read this morning and it had camshaft over adjustment on bank 1 and bank 2 and am well aware this is caused by failing tensioners.
Cleared the codes and had a very gentle drive home from work and all was good until again a warm engine restart and CEL back on and same codes. so clearly not a one off and can't risk driving it other than when it goes in for the engine pull.
It's a good car and don't really want to change it so even though it's gonna cost nearly what the cars worth I guess that's motoring and hopefully afterwards will be a sound car again for a good few years.
