HEEEEEELP! DISASTER STRIKES

[simonp]

My 06 plate 52k saloon was serviced last week, and on Friday at startup sounded TERRIBLE with a chattering from the NS cylinder head. Today's diagnosis is a timing chain problem, or failed tensionner. The cure (hopefully) is to take the engine out, (25+ hours at Audi rates @£95 + VAT) to replace all 3 chains estimated £3500. Is there anyone who knows of and can recommend and independent in the South Yorkshire who are up to the job at hopefully a lower hourly rate?

[sonny]

Unit 20 or MRC I think will be your best bet.

[Steve_C]

Unit 20 or MRC I think will be your best bet.

+1, Unit 20 probably close to you (Cheshire), MRC are in Banbury.

[Timster]

My 06 plate 52k saloon was serviced last week, and on Friday at startup sounded TERRIBLE with a chattering from the NS cylinder head. Today's diagnosis is a timing chain problem, or failed tensionner. The cure (hopefully) is to take the engine out, (25+ hours at Audi rates @£95 + VAT) to replace all 3 chains estimated £3500. Is there anyone who knows of and can recommend and independent in the South Yorkshire who are up to the job at hopefully a lower hourly rate?

How long since you had a full oil change?
Does the noice disapear after a couple of seconds?
Is it only happening when the engine's cold?

The reason I ask is that I had been experiencing the same thing occasionally.
Mentioned to Doug @ MRC last week and again he inferred it may be the chains/tensioners.... HOWEVER, if your running old and therefore THIN oil, overnight it will naturally run away from the tensioners etc and thus leave them DRY when you come to start again in the morning.
Gave it an oil change there and then. Touch wood, the clatter hasn't returned.

Just a thought.

[simonp]

JUST been serviced (i.e. 30 miles ago) at a main dealer so I hope brand new oil-it's not just a noise, its easily audible from the drivers seat, and the valve timing is erratic hence diagnosis of a floppy chain

[Timster]

Oh well, shame man.

So has this only occurred since it was serviced ???

[adsgreen]

they did put enough oil in?

[simonp]

there was no oil level warning over the 50 miles covered since the service-it's probably bad luck - I can't believe a straightforward service could bu88er the chain

[victor2vt]

The joys of running a performance saloon car

[rs4007]

Gives you the shivers that! Hope you get it done for a reasonable price. Will they not offer some goodwill on the job seeing as they just did a service? If you don't ask (twice), you don't get..

[neckarsulm]

too much of a coincidence IMHO

[pad125]

Not sure if this is an engineering thing or an Audi thing but when my motor was out for the valve clean the dealer 'recommended' that I have the tensioners replaced at the same time. Mine had done 44k at the time, I know you'd replace certain stuff as a matter of course, I had a new clutch put in but tensioners??