VAG even uses chains anymore? pretty surprising for such an anti consumer company
Buying a car with a timing belt
Levi Phillips
Bentley Anderson
Looks like a DOHC V-configuration engine with timing belts on one camshaft on each side and gears/chains conecting to the other camshaft.
Xavier Cook
Your average B5 S4 timing belt change, people didn't like having to take the front off the car every 50k so they switched to "lifetime" chains and put them at the back of the engine for the next generation of S4, see Sadly the plastic chain guides were prone to cracking which forces you to rip out the entire engine to rebuild the timing components every 100k
Luis Wright
so don't buy volkswagen? I though this was pretty common sense
Brody Gutierrez
>plastic chain guides
i hope the person that designed this was executed
Anthony Brooks
No, but they have other issues now:
>polluting diesels
>carbon deposits on intake valves on direct injection gas engines
These carbon deposits start to affect the engine significantly at about 50.000 km, to remove them you need to remove the cylinder head and clean it manualy.
Somehow people still say the RX-8 was bad...
Easton Wright
>Somehow people still say the RX-8 was bad...
the rx8 you had to do it way more often
Nicholas Walker
>the rx8 you had to do it way more often
No, the RX-8 cleaned its ports when operated close to full power.
The VAG GDI engines have that issue even when you commute at 200 km/h.
Nolan Sullivan
>buying a car with a valvetrain
Isaiah Mitchell
We already had that here: