Customer brought us a 1.8TFSI engine for rebuild and it went straight in scrap. 

How could it have had that problem to begin with? That car is only 11 years old!!!

My thought exactly. Worked for a top fuel team where they also did this after journals were damaged, They ran fine again for a few runs (I mean it's 10+k hp, so don't expect reliability) but welding and line boring is fine for daily driven/tuned engines.

@@tempest411Oil consumption problems and the old owner ran it low on oil

@@tempest411 the bracket that "guides" both cams have a mesh in it on backside with a metallball behind it.Due to their crapdesign the oilpressure itself will shoot the metallball outside which will destroy the mesh and the mesh wilö get stuck inside the oilhole inside head and block/reduce the oilflow to the camjournals. Hete is a partnumber for you that you know which part is the issue,90% of times the mesh is already gone when i removed that bracket 06H103144K

Sadly, nobody does these days. But the biggest thread to all engines out there is people that think they have a clue about dealing with them but they haven't at all.

And lack of services

And the scrap plastic guys.

They’re one of the worst engines ever made

like in my town a pile of new looking mazdas driving around with a cloud of blue smoke...oil changes are important

A big part of the problem are the unrealistic maintenance intervals specified by manufactures to earn tree-hugger points.

@@tempest411 my wife has got an Audi Q2 1.6 diesel and the oil change intervals are 18k miles. It hurts to see how the engine is slowly dying but it's a leased car so we will stick to the manufacturer's schedule and won't waste our money. I would not want to buy this car as a used car though.

IDk, may be 1.8T is less expensive but here in US, nice 2.0T Gen1 CCTA or CBFA with, lets say 50,000 miles, the kind you want, so you can refresh it with new timing, water pump etc while its out, costs $4000-4500 and thats just an engine, without paying to anyone to swap it.

1.9 TDi engine y 2001 , 1.5M km

@@Bet-vx3fg the oldskool VP TDI's were indestructable.

I stopped buying VAG after -98. Glad I did. Pure crap most of the lot since. My last was a "semi" rare Golf III -98 stationwagen. The last year for Golf III, stationwagen only from Wolfsburg with the then "new" 1.6 litre. Was a great car.

​@@Brakballe Oldskool VW quality.

and no oil!!! Starving the engine of that isn't a good look. Owner loves the car, so will get it sorted; it's in great hands. I've had work done there, and can't complain at all. Best mechanic I've been to. I had PCV valve done ( oil mixing with coolant ) and had wheel bearings changed, brakes, fuel filter...amazing work. Just need to get timing chains done for my B8 S4. Can't recommend these guys any more highly. They're the real deal and my local garages wouldn't even touch my car when I needed the PCV valve changed. So much for helping out the local mechanic when some of them don't have a clue what they're doing themselves and only wanna do services and change brakes all day...

Just rods and your hood pending on which head and block combo

It seems all European stuff these days is just pure shit.

100% agree, for a premium brand most of the Cars are poorly designed and engineered.

Sadly, that's the norm and has been for decades. But you're right, not incorporating replaceable bearing shells is smooth-brain engineering.

Oil pump is driven by wet belt. A hidenn time bomb to destroy the engine and force you to buy a new car.

You pretty much answered your own question. If manufacturers made cars to last, the market for new cars would be reduced. Same as apple and phone chargers lol. Shame really. My 20 year old BMW doesn't even have water temp shown on the dash - wtaf. You can sure tell cars are only meant to last 5 years or 100k miles - which ever comes first - these days.

I think the customer paid for information. If it was me, i'd want to know why my engine died shortly after rebuild. Information can help the customer to sue the rebuilder that messed up.

I would have taken the sump of first and had a look.

Thats What I said in the video

🤷‍♂️ I own Audis for 12 years all good

Got a 2.7 A6 Diesel at work with 230k on it just goes on and on and on.

It's a variant of the EA888

Mk7, 8V A3 and NMS Passat had these engines

They haven't been any good since the introduction of OBD2 back in the mid 90s.

Audi b8 v8 is bullit proof.

PD TDI

the original 1.8t aeb engine is the best one

​@@robt8042until the oil pump balance shaft gives up on the 2.0tdi

4.2 in b8.5 rs5, unless you count the catalytic converters or carbon cleaning i think it's pretty solid

😂😂😂😂😂

keep adding oil, otherwise you'll end up with a broken junkyard engine. Only way to solve this is new piston rings, especially the oilrings. This will cost you a fortune. Trade it in and buy a decent brand, like Toyota

I've this engine in my 2010 seat leon (1p). I had this problem 6 years ago - it drank oil like crazy, it had around 80k km at that time. I'm not 100% sure how much oil it was, i think 1 dcl on 100km or something like that. Really crazy numbers. I did my research and got lucky -- somebody on octavia forums (czech web page) explained me what is going on, what is the problem with this engine and how should one fix it. VW published TPI about this too. Issue is with the type of oil piston rings used in this engine. They used drilled through ones which were causing issues. I used grooved ones which fixed the issue. I was lucky to find a good garage that was willing to do this against TPI. Why ? Official service wanted to change the pistons to versions that had different wrist pin size and hence new rods had to be used. Pistons from older type, BZB, fits just nicely. That's what I used -- BZB pistons. Aftermarket, KOLBENSCHMIDT 40251600. Btw. this engine had issues with cam chains too, they were snapping prematurely basically killing the engine. After this service engine oil consumption is 0. It's been almost 7 years of testing and I've no problems. Tested it at speeds > 200km/h for prolonged time (highway), driving in town, cold weather, hot weather .. nothing, every time I check the oil it's where it should be. I was told to open a dispute against VW, I think this was actually done in US. But I really didn't want to be dragged in courts. Especially when I have no knowledge how to proceed, etc. I paid about 2500EUR at that time and I don't regret it.

Yes , Dy29et

What year was your car? Does this apply to all TFSI or just the old ones ?

@@erikson024 Its about 2008 to 2012, my one was 2010. Steer clear of any VW or Audi TSFI engine. The 2 ltr diesel is very good though. I have a Audi Tt this from 2008 and it has been an excellent engine.

Finally ordered some. Coming soon

@@VAGTechnic going to be a month +? Should I just order rod resize?

Tell me about it. Somehow my dumbass brother got my parents to buy a 2012 CC, and he bought a 2014. I couldn't have cringed harder, my parents 2012 has already been through a timing chain/used transmission... Cost??? Roughly 6k.... They bought the car for 8..... Only has 127k miles on it. Just waiting for the day my brother's blows up, dude has no money to repair it and we already think the 6k USD turbo is bad at 45k miles. Absolute junk. I'll drive my 2000s hondas/toyotas/GMs until i die!

Generally unlikely; if it's started chewing on its own head, it's highly likely it's also chewing on the rest of the bearings.

The scoring would cause the crankshaft to eventually seize ("eventually" being a few thousand revolutions, I'd guess. Metal-on-metal ends in a friction weld ). That would cause the camchain to break, resulting in the pistons coming into intimate contact with the valves. Bent valves, bent conrods and the possibility of the bent controds making a break for freedom out of the side of the cylinder or down through the sump.

Pd 130 in my opinion is the best engine in the VAG group

@@lesbaty8919 They're literally all junk. Complete junk.

Exactly me too.

What would you recommend instead? In Europe.

@@robt8042 I have a 20 year old Toyota that’s not broken down once, never failed an Mot, doesn’t burn oil or lose water and just keeps on going. I’d buy another.👍

@@big500 you don't need to buy another, it won't break 😉

@@Johan_Degen Hope so👍😎

TSI = totally s**t idea TFSI = totally fu**ing s**t idea.

Right but then he has no idea the maintenance intervals or care that was involved in the junkyard motor, this way if he really wants the car to stay on the road, he'll have a fully rebuilt engine and know that everything is good, and all of the wearables have been replaced. Not the cheapest option, but I'm guessing it's something like his wife's car. My father just did the same for my mother, she loves the 2012 CC even though it's a money pit. Rather than deal with the double headache - just pay the money and move on if you have it.

😂😂😂Not completely true but you are open to your opinion.

@@shimon2476 eheheheheh…isn’t true maybe?

@@fulvioplatania3091 I work on these engines on a daily basis they are not junk like what people who watch videos seem to say

@@shimon2476 so are you telling me these engines do not drink lubricant, no problem about some cracks, no problems about the heads, valves? Strange...

@@fulvioplatania3091 you are not a mechanic you don't know anything other than what you have watched on RU-vid I'm telling you gen 1 engines don't have engine oil burning issue cracked pistons etc gen 2 has the defective oil control ring issue which causes high oil consumption cracked pistons and burnt valves are not a issue with these engine and yes they have cam bridge and balance shaft issues not a common thing as well but stop trying to spread doom and gloom I have a gen 1 personally running over 300k kilometres in a Passat.

Not if you buy from private.

@@cube234 i think in both germany and belgium you can still be held liable for knowing selling a car with a prominent issue. Not something couldnt have known, but this was clearly patched up to fail a few k later.

How do they screw up the design of an oil pump? They'd only have THOUSANDS of successful examples to learn from, including their own from 20+ years ago.

Why how long would it take you?

Took me 2h on the end , owner was charged two h

@@VAGTechnic I guess not everybody understood your jokes, like the 5h ;)

​@@scott2495😂😂😂

THREE YEARS OLD??? That's crazy!

@@tempest411 I gave up returning my car for repair after 13 attempts audi dealers just lied to my face don't touch modern audis

no engine was designed to last forever, and all engineers can do is calculate bearing stresses, torsional loads, blah blah. and how to make it. as quickly and cheaply as possible so they can make lots of them and sell them... i look at an old B&S. its cheap, its common. sure, i can swap this, change that... lots of compatibility... can machine out bearings and reline sleeves, but in the end... why bother? theyre cheap and common. fun to play on, not worth reviving when stuffed. old engines are just as bad to work on but teh difference is that often theres no replacements at all and someones willing to pay... to make a set of patterns to make a new head, then machine it, for that obscure 1914 cast iron lump that someone found in a shed... to weld those magnesium cases from a 1984 CR125, then jig up and machine the water pump housing again... to throwing a new DOHC on the mill and reboring the camjournals... its only worth it when someone wants to pay or theres some sort of personal satisfaction... (like le dan and allen millyard with their... frankensteins...) when parts and labour costs more than a new vehicle...

@@paradiselost9946 Rubbish! The main reason for modern engine failure, is due to issues with electronic control systems. There are of course designed in self-destruct features on the engines themselves, such as the "wet belt" camshaft drive system on some Fords. Many engines from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, are still going strong, with some of them having far better spare part support than anything current. Back in the day engines tended to get designed by engineers, not by accountants, mainly interested in passing the latest BS emission standards as cheaply as possible! Every time the emission rubbish is tightened up, more cheaply made Chinese electronics get hung on vehicles, and they become even more unreliable. The purpose of all of this seems to be to curtail, any private ownership of powered personal transport? That obviously includes EVs, whose insurance costs will soon be far too costly for most owners to afford.

A combination of poor design ( wet belt instead of a chain,why?) Poor components and trying to ring every bit of power out of it for economy and long service intervals all contribute. I had a Volvo C70 petrol with 228000 miles on it when I sold it,just bought a S60 d5 with 208'000 miles on it. Regular servicing is the key,oil and filter are a cheap mechanic.

Isn't that curious? My Citroen 2,0HDi engine is on 400K with nothing other than basic routine maintenance. Or maybe it's just that German automotive design has tanked ever since the big bosses started using American business practices.

@@humourless682 I'd suggest you put that colander back on your head. The idea that engines in the 50s,60s and 70s were more reliable should be obviously laughable. My parents had original minis at that time and those engines rarely hit 100k! Even engines form the 70s were not much better. I would trust a Kent engine to go much more than 200K. And those engines drank like petrol was going out of fashion. 25-30mpg was the norm for even a basic, cheap family car. I never saw more than 32mpg from my mkII Escort. I would agree that engines tended to be designed by engineers, not accountants. But that would only apply to engines coming from Germany, France and Italy. UK engines were barely designed at all, and that was usually about 30 years before anything else on the market. Italian engines tended to be reasonably well designed, but were let down by absolutely hopeless electrics and appalling ancillaries, while French engines tended to be interesting while also being competent. Germany earned its reputation in this period. Unfortunately, Germany's reputation has been entirely squandered over the past couple of decades, and so many German engines just seem to be designed to fail .Plastics that are heat cycled, dual mass flywheels and American business practices have led to the decimation of Germany's famed reputation for engineering and thus reliability. What I find truly amazing is that so many people still believe the BS about German engineering these days.

Over 100k but no body know if the engine done That 😀

Because it wasn’t worth on this engine

How much you paid for the car ?

@VAGTechnic £15250 ex demonstrator nissan leaf with 500 miles on the clock. Now you can get crazy awesome electric cars with bigger batteries for similar price. You have to be insane or like to burn cash to drive petrol/diesel

The only excuse is if you can't charge at home or work. As public charging is expensive and you pay the equivalent of diesel prices to charge.

@@xperyskop2475coming out your house to see a Nissan leaf everyday is the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard, I’ll keep the V8 and no I’m not insane.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@xperyskop2475 So I drive a 2.0tdi it’s done 338k miles, I bought it at 280k I cost £2.5k and has needed £2k worth of work over the years It’s averaged 55mpg It’s cost £6500 in fuel to do that mileage so £11,000 for 58,000 miles if it’s worth nothing now which it’s not, honestly I think it’s got the same again left in it. Now for the leaf let’s say your electric average 22p per kilowatt which is cheap. That works out at 5p per mile x 60,000 that’s £3000 So there £18,250 for 60,000 miles

Been there , bag of shit glued engines . No warranty from any one

Imagine working there everyday 😪

he just needs a small mic,, calm down

rode bluetooth mic on clip😀

This is why stupid awnser exist kids. It's an engine with problems but what problems are still there in the new ea888 gen3(b) motors. There are several brands with crappy motor the PSA 1.6THP is nowadays still a horror piece of metal. Thr ea888 is coming refined in every version.

made in Hungary

@@Bet-vx3fg It's not where it's made. It's the fundamental design and choice of materials. that engine could've been built by a team of gran prix mechanics and it would still be a crap engine.

@@tempest411It's green deal and eco. By new car every 3 years 😀