Back with the answer - yes it can. I changed the VVT a few weeks ago and car purrs now. And mind the pressure gauge showing no pressure in the previous post - it proved to be a bad gauge.
Can a bad VVT (or tensioner / housing channels) cause low oil pressure?
I'm having the same noises reported by @Daza - the startup rattle and noisy warm engineon low rpms. Once it gets warm, the oil pressure seems to drop significantly. Bought the car with an unfinished 1.8T oil pump retrofit -...
That's the plan. But I went on and ordered a diverter valve, just in case. If the problem is not the DV (which I really hope), I'll return it. The weird thing is that if I roll the windows down, I hear nothing wrong.
Here's how it sounds from inside, even though the phone didn't captured the...
Hello guys. I'm having some sort of similar problem after a light front bump, on my car, a 2005 A4 2.0TFSI Quattro. I just got the car from garage where it had the front bumper painted and other bits changed. All the front had to be removed to check for damages and reinstalled.
Immediately after...
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