If the owner drove the car with warning lights and probably a real warning to cease driving, Audi was right to refuse the warranty. If the car was in heavy traffic and could not easily be stopped that would be something else. Lack of coolant and/or oil will destroy an engine in a very short amount of time with any type of driving. Need more information. Have an Audi R8 and started having real problems with instrument panel - Audi covered the problem but did take some time. Would buy an Audi again.
this is true on motorcycles aswell. when my 2018 yamaha scooter needed a new top end it was nearly impossible to work on it and they had a spacial tool required for basically every bolt.
👍I can't believe I just sat through 49 minutes watching that! But I admired both the engineering of the engine, and the skill involved in pulling it apart - without busting everything up. Cool. 😎🇦🇺
My wifes 7 year old land rover hit a small rock and it caused a coolant leak. She figured she would keep on driving until I had a chance to look at it. People make bad choices. Expensive repair.
@yeahitskimmel sounds like my wife I have mud tires so they are ruff when it's cold out every winter she freaks out and calls me because it has a bad vibration lol
Eric, I just saw a video on Rainman Ray's Repairs that discussed your collaboration with Ray in saving the van for the afflicted family. Hats off to you, brother! God bless you and Ray!! This is why I watch you guys. I am very proud of you both!
I'm not even a car guy and watched the whole video, and coming from someone who can just about tell the difference between a steering wheel and a back bumper, i don't know who you guys get your head around this stuff, gave me the shivers just watching! And 30k, for an engine. Incredible.
Eric as a person that doesn't follow you as much I'm here to say thank you for helping the family in Florida with Rayman ray to get the motor for the Dodge van replacement that is an awesome thing both of you are doing together the family who has medical issues will be forever grateful as am I and the viewers from Rays channel bless you both!!!!❤❤
Before giving one's best effort, it is helpful to set low expectations for the outcome of that effort, as they can be exceeded and it isn't a crippling disappointment if they aren't. This sums up my approach to life. Try hard, expect little and be grateful when things occasionally do go my way. Who knew Eric is such a philosophical life coach? 😄
As I watch this, I think two different things: What a beautiful marvelous piece of engineering. And, what a ridiculous huge and pointless waste of money. Expensive to make, expensive to maintain, expensive to replace. I’ll take a nice ‘63 Plymouth 225 Slant Six any day.
After seeing this teardown. It makes me appreciate my honda K20 i adjusted the valves on today. 328,000 miles and it purrs. Had a leaky valve cover gasket so did some adjustments while i had it off
my 2003 bonneville SSEi supercharged L67, 21 years old and just runs incredibly well. it only has 125K on it but still it runs like brand new. tons of torque (pulley swap), it's less then halfway through it's lifespan. 3800's, probably GM's best made V6..... ever.
I work with these just about every day. Oil filter housings, PCV's, water pumps and thermostats, that valve that brings vacuum to the water pump, oil strainers, turbos, timing covers... I uhhh... Yeet. But thanks for the teardown as always! To anybody that has this engine, the code is CWGD, 8.0 qts. of 0W-20 (T40718 dipstick tool 76 0 14 or 16), 12-point spark plugs that are a 14mm, and these engines are in way too many of our cars. Water pumps are a pain because #serviceposition.
7.8 quarts of oil and 0 w 20 is way to thin only used for emissions reasons . MAYBE in the 30 below 0 I'd run 0 w 20 in the B9. I run 5 w 30 in my stage 2 B9 .. 90k on it changed oil every 3k spark plugs every 20 and trans fluid pan and 40 and 80 . 10 w 50 with an oil cooler if you drive it like it's stolen .... these cars with an APR tune are crazy reliable .. 034 is awful . I'll bet my job at Audi it had an 034 tune ..
I often think about the irony of this. The engineers spend years developing this exotic technology, the advertisers flaunt it, the dealers brag, and the owners are all proud to own such machinery. And then in a few years it goes to the scrap yard.
I don't think we'll ever see better built or longer lasting luxury cars than the Lexus LS400 and the Mercedes W124. The sort of customers that buy luxury cars nowadays do not care about longevity outside of the warranty period. They can afford to replace them every few years, and it's clear the design priorities have shifted to match customer preference.
Eric this is the first time I've watched your video. I watch Ray,s Repairs and I saw how fantastic it is that you and Ray are helping out the family with the Chrysler van blown engine. It's really nice of you both to lend a helping hand to a family that is going through such a hard time. Thank you for being so kind with your time and donating a engine to the cause. Bless you and Ray
I rented this exact car a few weeks ago. I got my first speeding ticket in 25 years. Never driven a car that goes from 80 to a 110 like this one did. This engine has some serious power in that little car.
Those audi guides are so expensive, and chains, and many of them there is no aftermarket. Kind of makes buying any rear timing chain engine car, not a real prospect.
yup, deck the heads and block, crack test, if ok, new bearings, new rings, pistons looks reasonable, but likely replace as it clearly overheated, re-assemble and away you go...it looks like in reasonably good condition...
Can't rebuilt German engines. Every time I've seen someone try ,they never lasted. Plus they don't have any tolerance for machine work to be done on them
@@peterpeter5666 an almost new Audi engine, overheated on both cilinderbanks, plastic waterpumpimpeller. Variable camshaft timing, electronic thermosthat, built-in failure points in my opinion. No good sign of engineering and building quality here. Throw-away engines, that's what they are
As an Audi tech who has worked on these engines, there's pretty much a 0% chance of rebuilding these without the factory tools required to do so. I know there's guys out there that would say "yeah, you could just rig something up to make it work" but you really can't on this engine. The timing alone requires cam locks, crank lock and locking pins for the zero lash pulley that you see removed at 14:15.
@@jonmallard2176 MY EXPERIENCE WITH German cars as a tech for 40 years is , what ever you do to these engines, after they fail is a bandage and they will eventually fail again in a short time. Pretty sure as a tech at audi when every you had engine issues , 99% of the time it was a new engine in a crate.
Former Audi tech here... These are actually a whole lot easier to tear down than the older engines. The stand and adapters from Audi for the V6 was like 20k. The table the pull them out was another 10k.
@@Dead_Fighter_Pilots Same. I suspect the lobes move from left to right on the shaft. The solenoid engages ramps on the lobes so when they turn the "lobes" follow. You can just barely see some splines under the cam lobes when he does a close up on the shafts.
@@Dead_Fighter_Pilotsit's called Miller Cycle, or in VW/Audi jargon, Budack Cycle. At low loads, it engages the low profile cam, that has low lift and closes the intake valves very early, before bottom dead center. It does this to get lower pumping losses. It's effective, Mercedes has this too on the 2.0 turbo, and gets very good fuel consumption out of a very powerful engine.
Omg! Yes!!!! I actually have this engine in my SQ5 and cannot wait to watch this video! Well, 2 minutes in and no, no one has tuned them to 450/600 with just a simple flash tune… Nope no one ever
I think a flash tune might've been the reason for the warranty denial. Also the case of failure if it was a particularly aggressive tune, putting a ton more boost without the proper supporting mods (upgraded intercooler, radiator etc.) will mean a lot more heat, so heads start warping and more boost will 'help' compression go past the head gaskets.
@@raoulrr Don't forget the "hot V"....all that heat going out into the V... oh wait..... that's the 'side" of the head/block that got really really hot right where the unitary exhaust goes out to the turbo?
If you don't have the appropriate tool, you can make a slide hammer to get the caps off. You can use x2 dynabolt. Tighten the dynabolted up in the boss on both sides on the caps and then make a slide hammer to suit Add a plate across the two Dynabolts, and then you can attach a slide hammer to the plate and then slide hammer off
For what it is? I mean, it’s compact, and the casting is obviously designed to be very strong but as lightweight as possible. I was prepared for yet another truly over-engineered positively infuriating German engine, and I was pleasantly surprised to be wrong. In my opinion, this might be one of the least “over engineered” engines I’ve seen in the modern era. It’s refreshingly free of gratuitous parts, moving and otherwise, and it’s refreshingly free of plastic and other cut-cost parts. Everything you see makes sense, like it was done for good reason. There’s a lack of unnecessary timing chains, idlers, tensioners, or guides, and the water pump isn’t buried under there. The cam chains counterrotate using the geared balance shaft to drive them reducing chain length and weight. The hot Vee is all the better to feed the turbos. The timing chains being on the “wrong” end makes it more compact. The unique camshaft/valve cover assembly is also simple, compact, and leads to shorter engine height. In addition to timing phasers on the intake and exhaust sprockets, the assembly also incorporates a simple mechanism equivalent to Honda V-TEC (specifically, V-TEC’s selectable cam profiles) without stepping on Honda’s toes. It’s no Ford 300, but those days are over and they aren’t coming back. For its feature set, I’ll dare say it, this Audi is almost minimalist.
@@johnarnold893 _" totally over engineered for what it is."_ And how would you have achieved the same power, torque, weight and fuel economy/emissions with less engineering?
@@ferrumignis With a V8 LS, pushrods and compactness at fraction of the cost - $10k. LS may be a little less fuel efficient, but the difference in cost makes up for that. Audi engines are ridiculous complex and so expensive at over $30k for a V6 and $40K for a V8. Further, LS engines do not require replacement of cheap valve guides at 60 to 80 k miles.
Checked my book, I've done 6 of these engines which had multiple head gasket breaches as you found, every single one was warrantied as soon as we found the head gasket issue, meaning new replacements were fitted (£32K/job). Each removed one was a complete teardown, wash and rebuild with head and block skims AND new shells, timing gear all round. Total cost £4Kper engine, majority being labour.
Madness 🙄 a, they don't have the ability or b, the Labour costs per hour are Laughable, c, I would demand a new Car with the new Engine if it was just months old like his Engine looked !!! Simple repair for a real Mechanic - By the way that residue coolant in the oil would mostly evaporate off with a 10 mile drive, So the Engine did not need a full strip down if the Block was Flat, Just a couple of oil changes.
Were those head gaskets faulty or did something else go wrong and the person kept driving anyhow - CAUSING the more serious engine damage? People are dumb and they'll take a chance rather than take a walk.
I am a nurse. When you pulled off the oil pump chain cover, I had flashbacks to the worst things I have seen when I have taken a diaper off my patients.
I think the engine DID die quickly...the oil cooler seemed like it had normal oil on one side and 'forbidden milkshake' on the other, so it didn't seem to get to purge the whole oil cooler of actual-oil before it gave up/was shut down. This engine's engineering is really looking pretty amazing, honestly. I like it a lot. I'd love to find out what that engine had happen to it.
@@wino99999 Yes. The chances of it being overheated were too great to allow Eric to ethically sell it... and anyway he always throws thermostats away....
I'm not sure how these are designed, but an overheat could easily have subtly ruined the thermostat. Traditional 'wax pellet' thermostats use a wax that only significantly expands when it reaches a critical temperature. The wax continues to expand if it gets hotter. The operating spring compensates for some expansion, but when it bottoms out some wax will escape. The missing wax results in a thermostat that still starts opening at the target temperature, but doesn't fully open until a much higher temperature. This effect is amplified in an ECU controlled thermostat. Those use a heating element in the wax to allow the ECU adjust the operating temperature while remaining fail-safe as a traditional thermostat if something goes wrong. During an overheat ECU will operate the embedded heater at full force in an attempt to cool the engine, possibly ruining the thermostat in an attempt to save the engine. Older ECUs didn't log this as a failure event. Perhaps this Audi does, and also logged how many times it warned the driver that something was wrong.
Funny Eric that you chose this engine this weekend as it seems it was nearly defective out of the box, just like the new GM fuel pump my coworker bought for his 07 Sierra 1500, which I spent my Saturday helping him install. His old fuel pump still worked but there was this strange wetness and fuel smell from the top of the old pump😉. After we dealt with all rusty straps, removed the fuel line from the old pump and got it all back in the truck we found that when you cycle the key the new pump would only pump for about two seconds and no fuel was getting to the engine. We tried plugging in the old pump (which the truck drove in with, and was now oddly missing its fuel outlet fitting) to see if it powered up any differently, it didn’t. We looked for bent pins on connectors, plugged evap lines, etc, before finally dropping the tank again and comparing the pumps, we couldn’t spot any differences between them. It wasn’t until we tried powering up both pumps, while only partially submerged in gas, that we found the problem. The old pump would push fuel out of the broken(and slightly brown) outlet, the new pump was just splashing fuel around inside the lower housing that surrounds the actual pump. This pointed us towards the actual problem with the new GM pump. The actual fuel pump had a broken outlet where it connected to the rest of the plastic pump housing, and was just pumping fuel back into the tank. After a few deals were made over the phone between my coworker and the GM dealer we installed the old pump in the new housing and the truck ran fine.
I ended up finding your channel with the tear down of the Subaru WRX VA engine. Now I'm just binge watching your videos to learn absolutely everything about every engine. I love how the variable cam works in this engine, although you didn't really cover it, there a few parts I watched several times to figure it out. Your humor is on point. I'd to request that you take a bit of time to go over strange/new technologies like variable cam timings... I'm not done the video, so if you cover it, ignore me. Thanks!
Had a 70's Datsun 2 ltr 4 cyl truck. Blew a heater hose on the way to work and continued my trip (3 miles). I watch heat gauge and it stayed in the safe zone. Problem is gauge sender is in the block and the head didn't have coolant. Relatively easy to pull head, get it planed and re-installed but a lesson that cost. Thanks for sharing video.
Worth mentioning Eric that the balance shaft is spun by that idler gear above the back of the crankshaft, which clearly has a built in counter weight, to oppose the counter weight at the front of the engine.
Fascinating tear down, more than impressed with your knowledge and ability to pull these mills apart. Great respect and so damned sad for the owner of the car and the expense they must have had. Well done and keep up the amazing work!
I got Peugeot commercial, a simultaneous malfunction occurred within a hydro elastic suspension pipe forcing my butt cheeks backward 45% from level plane forcing me to admire a skilled GF's presence upon the leaky issue
I've watched you for a long time and my wife will generally watch. I have to add a little more narrative for her to understand what you are doing. On occasion, I get exhausted watching you because I think, 'Thank the Lord, that is not me trying to work on one of my engines'...which I used to do...before I was 89 with two new knees. I pretend that my engine work went as smoothly as yours while knowing it never did. Right now, my 1996 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon (5.7 liter) needs a power steering hose. I have someone I will trust to do that. Thanks for the good cheer and hard work that I do not have to do.
I own an S4 with this engine. It is a great car and is reliable as long as you follow ALL maintenance religiously, and perform proper visual checks every week or two. My car is tuned. I do all my own maintenance and work, but I enjoy it. The technology in this engine is awesome. The built in velocity stacks on the intake!!?!? I cannot believe no one has mentioned that in the comments yet. Also, if you didn't notice from the video, this engine has an integral exhaust manifold--meaning the entire exhaust manifold is inside. This is done for better thermal capacity. It helps with the hot V design and also emissions to get the engine up to temp extremely quick. Very cool technology balancing performance with emissions. I would say do not buy a car with a EA839 engine unless you love cars and know how to work on modern engines, or you must have the money to dish out for repairs and proper maintenance. High performance GT sedans with this engine, you must pay to play people--or have the knowledge to know how to service your engine yourself.
Could buy a Tesla and never work on it. Just drive it until 300K-400K miles and if the battery degrades too much, current costs a fraction of an Audi engine and it just keeps getting cheaper.
Called an 'interference fit.' At room temperature the bearing caps are actually larger than the block. Also used to install bearings on shafts so they stay tight.
@@MrJimmy3459 The only car where the dealer tells you " I think Audi says 1qt/lt every 1000mi is acceptable but no customer will ever agree that is normal. My S5 goes through 1qt every 5~6kmi."
Even my old Honda Civic has some obscene rating of "One quart per 3000 miles" or something. I mean, I guess that much oil in TOTAL may not be an awful sign in a mechanical sense, but that's losing/burning way too much for my liking. STRICTLY speaking, though, I suppose it's not necessarily a *warrantable* amount of oil loss, so I see what they are saying. Sort-of.
Those solenoids are for shiftable cams to use the different profiles. GM has been doing the same on their 2.0L "LSY" and the 2.7L "Turbomax" engines from 2019+ on both cams. There's a high lift, low lift, and no lift (AFM) profiles. I wonder if in time and high miles those sliding splines will start wearing out and cam lobes start binding when trying to shift. I guess time will tell. Also yes those 'cam carrier' gaskets do leak, the 2.0L engine specifically are notorious for it and require retiming the engine but the chain and cams are locked during the repair.
Audi's used this system (they call it AVS) on a few engines now, going back over a decade, and I haven't heard of it going bad. On my VW GTI's gen 3 EA888 specifically, the main issue is the VVT solenoids (not the lift ones) going bad from being run low on oil consistently
Hey Eric, can’t wait for the video of you reassembling that engine, very interesting tear down, hardly surprising they wrote it off seeing all that mess coming out of the oil drain sump but how much could have been saved instead of a new engine and the economics of it.
Only at first - the burden is still on Audi at that point to prove that the tune caused the damage or failure. A smart customer that now has breakdown evidence could go back and fight this one. This is a clear fault failure there was no damage or evidence to show that any modifications could have caused this damage.
@@dontimlin4506 I wish thats how it was but its not unfortunately. Most euro brands void the warranty the moment you scan a car that has a tune. As a former BMW tech at a dealer, the moment I hooked a car up with a tune, that was it, the files are remotely uploaded to BMWs server and a record is kept. Once you tune a BMW its recorded forever in the ECMs programming data
Standard protocol is to scan vehicle to check for aftermarket tune. If the car isn't scanned warranty claim is automatically denied and dealership has to foot the bill.
MSRP was $56,395 to $64,495 for the coupe and $64,495 to $72,595 for the convertible. A bill for half the price of the car seems like a replace-the-car scenario to me.
I'm laughing because all the EV haters keep going on about the price of a replacement high voltage battery writing off the car. ICE engines are just as bad.
This car didn’t overheat and caused the warranty to be voided. Someone got a nice hot tune in it, with to much boost, and it lifted the head! These engines are notorious for lifting the cylinder head, in the center most upright bore. Even with arp studs, it still a gamble under high boost- we see these tend to lift the heads around the 550-600hp area or, if the tuner don’t know what they are doing, and have to much timing/boost and fire slots the head/block
@@xzox uh because we can…….. mines been living life at 700whp for the last 3.5 years at 120k miles. It’s fun. Turns heads, blast to drive. To each there own though
Great engineering is accomplishing complicated things done in simple ways. However, VW loves to do simple things in complicated ways. For absolutely no reason. They even do stupid things like make the flywheel bolt holes all the way through the crank shaft so if you don't make sure to seal the bolts completely all the way around with thread locker your actual crank shaft will leak oil and fling it all over your new clutch so that gets destroyed for no reason as well.
They're fine if you follow Elsawin, keep the oil changes. Pretty basic really. Worked on multiple engines over a period of 15 years. My wifes Octavia has 160K miles, still runs like new due to the fact that I have kept the maintenance up. Only thing replaced was battery and water pump.
My daily is a '68 beetle. Awesome car, super easy and cheap to work on. Pretty much have done everything which isn't saying much, there really isn't anything to do. Can say I can pull the engine and put it back in, in less time than it takes to change and bleed the brake master cylinder. Geez what a PITA. I know you weren't going all the way back to the date with your comment, but if you want a solid, easy car to maintain, those fit the bill.
@@nomagic-t1l old German tech is amazing its all the newer things that went down a steep hill. I recently had a 1992 mercedes 420 and it was a tank with 180k miles all original and running like new
How about a collaboration with @VAG Technic? Just box up the parts and send it to them for a rebuild. It seems they are always tearing-down engines, and this one would a good replacement for anyone that has blown up a 2017+ 3.0 TFSI.
It just kills me how people buy a brand new car, rag on it, tune it, and beat on it some more, (and its still in the break in period) and then imagine their surprise when it blows up. My first brand new car: 2023 Ford F150 5.0, for the first 2,000 miles, I babied it. I'm at 9,000 miles, 1 oil change in, about to do a 2nd oil change, still haven't tuned it or done any engine mods... Why? Because I like my warranty.
Yep. I have a kia cerato GT. Lotta guys do a flash tune, turn up the boost etc. As soon as they get the car new. Like you i like my 7 year new car warranty..
man, I had the 3800 in my first car, a 06 regal. the fucking car fell apart around me, but I was able to drive it to the junkyard under its own power and even the day she went had just as powerful of a motor as ever. I had just hydroplaned into the wall on the highway and fucked the front end, so it was toast even though I still drive it with no front bumper and a bent bumper bar and missing a headlight for 4 or 5 months after that. lol. good times being 16 years old. but that 3800 will always hold a special place in my heart
I had a dodge dakota 3.9l V6, radiator went while I was on the highway, after getting to a safe spot the engine locked up, it wouldn't even crank when I turned the key. Had it towed, put a new radiator in it, and it was good to go. Ran fine, no lost coolant. Thing was a tank.
If I had to guess, they probably modded the engine in some way. VAG are very much sticklers about modding and warranties. You mod it, you void it. Could also be what caused the gasket failure.
@@Confirm_selection I work for a Kia dealer. After the bad publicity from recent engine problems, Kia replaced an engine that was tuned, simply to avoid the arguments. We felt it was just encouraging bad behavior, but it wasn't our decision. We got the warranty income, of course.
speaking on mounting the engine to a stand, all cwgd engines taken out are normally held on with chains on an engine hoist. That is the purpose of the black hook receivers on the heads, and is what is used at my dealership. Thank you for the great content and tearing down of this audi engine, I normally see these having sparkles in the oil as little as 5k miles so sooner or later I hoped to see you tear one down.
"Oh your valve cover is leaking..... We would need to pull the engine because the transmission is in the way of the timing chain that's connected to the cams that are encased in the valve cover.... $7,000 please." .
Wow, that's a very impressive engine! I've heard they are reliable, but seeing the design, I can understand a bit better why they are good. Obviously the owner bought a bad tune. And of course the tuner will take no responsibility for blowing the engine.
Thank you for the great descriptive review. On the table, with you pointing it out, I recognize things. Under the hood, covered in plastic, not so much. WOW no specialized tools - no Timing Belt Cover Puller for Audi 3.0 (2019-2022)
@@guthrie_1 as a euro tech, warranty kicked it for one of two reasons, one, the car overheated and the customer (ignoring warning lights) drove until the car shut off. or option two, it had an aftermarket tune on the car, either situation would have resulted in audi denying the warranty. saw it happen at bmw with a m340i with a stage one flash tune, car lost compression and bmw kicked the claim, customer paid out of pocket for repairs.
@@guthrie_1 in deed tuned turbo-pressure and messing with the ecu also was the first possible reason, which came to my mind seeing the damage and getting the fact, that warranty was denied.
@@guthrie_1 He said a coolant line burst that was unrelated to a manufacturing defect, so I'm going to go with "yes" unless a squirrel ate through it or something
@@salninethousand2496 Bare aluminum used as cam bearings has been common for decades. It is reliable and long lasting as long as there is at least some oil flow and the oil is well filtered. Anything the oil will chew up the aluminum casting on the way through. The difference here is that the larger casting is used to resist the primary forces rather than cam caps. That might result in less flex, which could improve longevity, or a lighter assembly. There isn't any argument about wear on the more expensive larger casting vs cam caps. Cam carriers are line bored. Wearing out the bearing surface on either side means that the whole assembly is trash.
@@802Garage There are plenty of engines where the cam carrier is not part of the head casting. The primary reason is usually machining geometry, but it allows using an alloy with improved wear resistance.
very fun to watch - old aircraft mechanic, worked on metric airplanes half the time USAF the other. an engine i would typically work on is the 4360 engine on the Shakey aircraft. big cargo 4 engine C-124 Globemaster II transport.
As someone who drives a '96 Tacoma 2.4L 2wd I'm always looking for parts due to extreme rust. Though I love the fact that my grandpa, who had the truck before me, installed a supercharger kit on it. It is so much fun as I'm still continuing to add different things to it. I would love to see either of the two four cylinder (2.4 2rz-fe or 2.7 3rz-fe) 1st gen Tacoma engines torn down.
Eric... Eric... how many times have you drained an engine because you didn't want to turn it upside down with all that in it and make a mess. And here you are proving yourself 100% correct. 😂😂 Thanks for the video, this was a fascinating look into modern engine design. Even the Main caps were lightened. A lot of people will probably have bad things to say about modern VWAG cars and engines but the quality of the parts in that engine were really apparent. Unfortunately, you probably can't see any of it when it's in the car as it's buried under 8 miles of hoses and wiring.
I just replaced a chrysler 3.6 pentastar because the warranty was denied. The '22 Ram sat at the dealer for 2 or 3 months before they said chrysler denied the claim. The 3.6 threw a rod and locked up on the highway. The owner told me the dealer did the oil change the first 30k miles, and then he had receipts for four other oil changes. It had 45k miles on it. Chrysler claims 60k drivetrain warranty. Guess they can deny for whatever reason which they gave "lack of maintenance" as the reason. He ended up buying a salvage 90k mile engine, and it's back on the road. The dealer quoted $15k to replace the engine. The supplier I use said $6500 on a new longblock. After the salvage engine and labor, along with new water pump, fluids, etc, it cost him $5300. But, it shouldn't have cost him a thing.
Remember if its German Engineers its over engineered garbage! Just look at German tanks in WW2. Yeah they were awesome, when they werent broke down. German tanks werent designed to be field repaired. Shermans were.
First one but not the last. Unfortunately an expensive mistake. A bonanza in parts sales for u. I am happy for u. I have to admire your work ethic. Keep uploading thanks. German cars and preventative maintenance go in hand.
I knew I was outgunned when the service writer at the Porsche/Audi dealership made me feel inadequate for not paying $1,100 for an oil change! Thank you for listening. I feel better now. R
Learn how to do a service yourself. A complete service with oil + oil filter, air filter, fuel filter and cabin filter will cost about 450 to 500 on materials. Or find a good mechanic that will do it for a reasonable price. Even the reset after the service can be done without diagnostic tools moost time. These German cars (BMW, Audi, Porsche, Marceders) are critical for service because they have extreme tight tolerances and high power output to displacement. where you can be lazy with air, fuel and cabin filters your oil service should not be neglected, better to soon than to late. Also the engine must be used calmly until it is at temperature (90deg celsius) before you squeeze out all the power. If you do that your engine will not end up on this channel.
Just had a oil changed on my VW at Vavoline. Psst. the 1.8 TSI engine is the same engine as in an Audi TT. Cost $125 which I thought was high. Only thing I get VW to service is Trans fluid changes. Last one I had done cost about $240. Valvoline don't drop the drain plug to drain the oil, , they suck the oil out of the dip stick tube. At least they don't forget to tighten the drain plug that way. Cheers.
Only if you buy modern. My friend Sam and I can swap out an LS motor from a silverado in 2 hours flat if we wanted. Weve done an LS swap with 4 guys in about 40 minutes. Modern engines are overly complex with BS valve timing. Its all a gimmick.
If you look at the used car market, prices or skyrocketing. I know this has a lot of factors including the economy. Yet, you're going to start seeing more more people keeping older vehicles going. I have a 2005 Yukon that I just put a 60,000 mi 5'3 in. I'm slowly repairing everything on it because they just don't make them like that anymore. I'm sure every generation says this though so I guess we'll see.
I’m a tech at Audi and we recently had an S5 in the shop (maybe like three months ago) anyways it had 1800 miles on it and had a bad knock. Low compression in like 4 and 5 or something. Metal in the oil filter. Anyways it was tuned so warranty was denied. I’m kind of wondering if this is the engine. Came from Raleigh, NC.
I had an 01 2.8ltr wagon that had 295K miles. I took it in for all oil changes and maintenance to the dealer I bought it from. They had these weird locking coolant hoses and at the last visit they didn't make sure to push the lower hose all the way on the radiator. After it stalled just a couple of blocks away, I had it towed back to the dealer. They refunded 200 of my 2500 dollar bill and told me I would have to sue to get the rest back because the car had so many miles that it wouldn't have run much longer anyway. The scrapper gave me another 250 for the car and Audi has lost a customer for life. These engines do not survive an overheat.
You SHOULD have sued them. Always call their bluff with three estimates higher than theirs plus legal expenses. They would have lost and you would have gotten paid.
I would love to see you tear down a 2.4 SRT4 that came in the 2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT with the aluminum intake. If you can get your hands on one. Great video as usual.
If I may humbly offer, you ought to buy what I call a spatula. A heavy bladed 3” wide super putty knife. I think that would be the ticket for loosening tough gasket sealer. Good for prying loose all kinds of things. Using your crow bar seems like a bad idea.
Yeah something seems off how could a new car burst a line without it being a manufacturer defect. Sounds like the owner did something wrong and just expected the warranty covered it if within the warranty term.
These aren’t engineered to be thrown away but engineered to take a hammering and be fine, you can track an Audi S or RS engine safely all day unless it’s modified which you wouldn’t want to do with most American engines
@@ferrumignis Ask any Audi dealer mechanic about these engines and they'll tell you that they actually fail quite frequently. They are NOT "good" engines. But if you want to pretend all this overcomplicated, absurdly-overpriced garbage somehow actually benefits humanity -- and you, too -- then so be it. ...But it won't end well. .. Not for you, nor for anyone else, either.
That timing system uses only 2 short chains. Audi, you losing your touch. Didn't the last version had 3 or 4 chains with with miles of chain. 😂 This is a well built engine. Lots of improvements. That bottom end is impressive strong design. One step short of those caps being part of the block.
This was a tuned engine. Very possible they were on a speed run and at high engine speeds. There was minimal damage so most likely he drove it back hoping it would be ok. lol
They have oil temp sensors so it would more than likely have had warning lights on, I suspect it ran in limp mode for a little while and then shut off hence why it looks like it didn’t run for long like that
From my 35 years in the imported auto service business, including 20 years in my own shop, I am amazed at the technological changes and efficiencies of today's engines..
I have a 2021 Porsche Macan GTS with a some kind of Audi turbo V6. A couple of months ago I picked a rock that smacked the radiator and broke a coolant line. As soon as I noticed warnings and fume coming out from the hood I stopped and had the car towed in. Lucky nothing bad happened, the radiator was replaced and all is good. And it wasn't covered under warranty just like this guy but my comprehensive part less deductible covered the repair. In these modern high performance cars you have to take fluid leaks seriously.
Glad to see that Audi is still making DIY maintenance as difficult as possible for the owners by doing brilliant things like locating the timing chain at the back of the engine requiring an engine out service/repair. BMW and Mercedes aren’t any better and have their share of messed up designs on what should be simple designs. A $5 gasket costing $1200 in labor to replace at the dealer is something Audi, BMW and Mercedes probably all have in common.
So what? Chain anyway is for whole lifetime of engine. On my mazda 6 chain has already 200k km and no problems. Audi is high performance car, of course it's tightly packed under the hood to fit such big and powerfull engine
Great video. Enjoyed it very much. I spent 18 years working on German cars at both Dealerships and Independents. When customers asked me why they cost so much to repair I remind them they lost the war and are still upset about it.
It feels weird looking at such a fresh engine being torn down Edit: yeah those weird looking intake cams are variable lift. It's called AVS: Audi Valvelift System. Have the same arrangement on the exhaust side in my mk7 GTI
@@HappyHarryHardon as good as the DSG is, an LS swapped rear drive mk5 is gonna be a whole lot cooler. Reminds me of the Artz 928 with the stretched mk1 body
Not covering a warranty claim caused by a coolant line bursting sounds like a really good way to alienate a customer for life.
There's probably a good reason for it. Some suggest an engine re-tune as hinted at early in the video
If the owner drove the car with warning lights and probably a real warning to cease driving, Audi was right to refuse the warranty. If the car was in heavy traffic and could not easily be stopped that would be something else. Lack of coolant and/or oil will destroy an engine in a very short amount of time with any type of driving. Need more information. Have an Audi R8 and started having real problems with instrument panel - Audi covered the problem but did take some time. Would buy an Audi again.
Driver abuse.
It was messed with doh
Some car manufacturers have far more experience rejecting coverage for catastrophic failures than others. VW is right at the top of the list.
"They don't want you to work on it"
You just explained the modern automotive industry.....
I can't wait until the cam in valve cover becomes widespread. Then no one will want to work on it.
so true. its buy a car drive it for 5 years then dispose and buy a new one.
Lucky those bolts aren't alluminium 😂
the modern "anything" industry.
this is true on motorcycles aswell. when my 2018 yamaha scooter needed a new top end it was nearly impossible to work on it and they had a spacial tool required for basically every bolt.
👍I can't believe I just sat through 49 minutes watching that! But I admired both the engineering of the engine, and the skill involved in pulling it apart - without busting everything up. Cool. 😎🇦🇺
Must of had a broken ff button lol 😂
My wifes 7 year old land rover hit a small rock and it caused a coolant leak. She figured she would keep on driving until I had a chance to look at it. People make bad choices. Expensive repair.
My wife will pull over and call me after a scary pot hole even when the car is obviously fine, so it can go both ways lol
Your bad choice was getting married? I hear ya
@yeahitskimmel sounds like my wife I have mud tires so they are ruff when it's cold out every winter she freaks out and calls me because it has a bad vibration lol
Dude you just reminded me to check my coolant thank you oml
@@RadDadisRadHe's M.G.T.O.W, Now 🌞🤠😮🤓
Eric, I just saw a video on Rainman Ray's Repairs that discussed your collaboration with Ray in saving the van for the afflicted family. Hats off to you, brother! God bless you and Ray!! This is why I watch you guys. I am very proud of you both!
Link to said video?
@@peacefrog0521 ua-cam.com/video/D3rdMzoIjfI/v-deo.html
Found it
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@@peacefrog0521 ua-cam.com/video/D3rdMzoIjfI/v-deo.html
You and Ray are good people, God Bless.
I'm not even a car guy and watched the whole video, and coming from someone who can just about tell the difference between a steering wheel and a back bumper, i don't know who you guys get your head around this stuff, gave me the shivers just watching! And 30k, for an engine. Incredible.
Likewise!
It's a pretty simple engine compared to some monsters Audi and Volkswagen have in their catalogs.
Eric as a person that doesn't follow you as much I'm here to say thank you for helping the family in Florida with Rayman ray to get the motor for the Dodge van replacement that is an awesome thing both of you are doing together the family who has medical issues will be forever grateful as am I and the viewers from Rays channel bless you both!!!!❤❤
"This has a 0% chance of working." - Eric
Proceeds to work perfectly.
Eric's a humble man 😂
@@samholdsworth420 - Yea.....i always set the bar low for myself. I would've said the same thing had it been me in that situation.
Eric pulls the “milkshake pump” gets pristine coolant.
Eric pulls the “oil pump” gets milkshake.
Before giving one's best effort, it is helpful to set low expectations for the outcome of that effort, as they can be exceeded and it isn't a crippling disappointment if they aren't. This sums up my approach to life. Try hard, expect little and be grateful when things occasionally do go my way. Who knew Eric is such a philosophical life coach? 😄
Yes
As I watch this, I think two different things:
What a beautiful marvelous piece of engineering.
And, what a ridiculous huge and pointless waste of money. Expensive to make, expensive to maintain, expensive to replace. I’ll take a nice ‘63 Plymouth 225 Slant Six any day.
After seeing this teardown. It makes me appreciate my honda K20 i adjusted the valves on today. 328,000 miles and it purrs. Had a leaky valve cover gasket so did some adjustments while i had it off
Same for my Camry 4cyl 5SFE, 355k miles and only time the engine was touched is a valve cover gasket
Honda K-series engines are amazing. I plan to get at least 300K on my K24.
my 2003 bonneville SSEi supercharged L67, 21 years old and just runs incredibly well. it only has 125K on it but still it runs like brand new. tons of torque (pulley swap), it's less then halfway through it's lifespan. 3800's, probably GM's best made V6..... ever.
SR20 life here, 280k still runs like a champ!
how much were the valves off of spec?
I work with these just about every day. Oil filter housings, PCV's, water pumps and thermostats, that valve that brings vacuum to the water pump, oil strainers, turbos, timing covers... I uhhh... Yeet. But thanks for the teardown as always! To anybody that has this engine, the code is CWGD, 8.0 qts. of 0W-20 (T40718 dipstick tool 76 0 14 or 16), 12-point spark plugs that are a 14mm, and these engines are in way too many of our cars. Water pumps are a pain because #serviceposition.
7.8 quarts of oil and 0 w 20 is way to thin only used for emissions reasons . MAYBE in the 30 below 0 I'd run 0 w 20 in the B9. I run 5 w 30 in my stage 2 B9 .. 90k on it changed oil every 3k spark plugs every 20 and trans fluid pan and 40 and 80 . 10 w 50 with an oil cooler if you drive it like it's stolen .... these cars with an APR tune are crazy reliable .. 034 is awful . I'll bet my job at Audi it had an 034 tune ..
Lol you need a special tool to check the oil level ? No way
Love tuning in to 45 minutes of a sarcastic mechanic. Brightens my day!
I often think about the irony of this. The engineers spend years developing this exotic technology, the advertisers flaunt it, the dealers brag, and the owners are all proud to own such machinery. And then in a few years it goes to the scrap yard.
Tell my 2015 VW 1.8 turbo that. At 55k miles and it runs perfect.
They should save everyone the trouble and just ship them straight to the scrap yards! 😂
I don't think we'll ever see better built or longer lasting luxury cars than the Lexus LS400 and the Mercedes W124. The sort of customers that buy luxury cars nowadays do not care about longevity outside of the warranty period. They can afford to replace them every few years, and it's clear the design priorities have shifted to match customer preference.
Over a decade later and the 3.2 vr6 in my audi is still running and still wanted.
Saying they end up in a scrap yard is delusional
@@rewing4880don’t worry, you’ll have plenty of problems, that is if it makes it to 100k
Source: master Audi/vw mechanic
Eric this is the first time I've watched your video. I watch Ray,s Repairs and I saw how fantastic it is that you and Ray are helping out the family with the Chrysler van blown engine. It's really nice of you both to lend a helping hand to a family that is going through such a hard time. Thank you for being so kind with your time and donating a engine to the cause. Bless you and Ray
I rented this exact car a few weeks ago. I got my first speeding ticket in 25 years. Never driven a car that goes from 80 to a 110 like this one did. This engine has some serious power in that little car.
S5 is no joke.
In 2002, I had a new Audi A4 1.9 TDi 140bhp. It was one very quick car. The 2.( V6 only came in 4x4 with 200bjp it didn’t hang about.
😂 I like mine....
I have the same engine in my Q8 with just a filter intake and 93 octane and I promise you it’s such a joy to drive on the highway
@@teleguy5699 Doesn't it weigh in around 4000 lbs, and only has 350 hp? How fast can it be?
Just once I want to hear a Wilhelm scream when you throw a perfectly reusable chain guide.
Or the water pump & electronic thermostat 😆
And get him sued by Disney?
Should mount a bunch of those in an epoxy table
Those audi guides are so expensive, and chains, and many of them there is no aftermarket. Kind of makes buying any rear timing chain engine car, not a real prospect.
@@goldenboi7685 I think Wilhelm was a Warner efx.
That 100% deserves a rebuild.
yup, deck the heads and block, crack test, if ok, new bearings, new rings, pistons looks reasonable, but likely replace as it clearly overheated, re-assemble and away you go...it looks like in reasonably good condition...
Can't rebuilt German engines. Every time I've seen someone try ,they never lasted. Plus they don't have any tolerance for machine work to be done on them
@@peterpeter5666 an almost new Audi engine, overheated on both cilinderbanks, plastic waterpumpimpeller. Variable camshaft timing, electronic thermosthat, built-in failure points in my opinion. No good sign of engineering and building quality here. Throw-away engines, that's what they are
As an Audi tech who has worked on these engines, there's pretty much a 0% chance of rebuilding these without the factory tools required to do so. I know there's guys out there that would say "yeah, you could just rig something up to make it work" but you really can't on this engine. The timing alone requires cam locks, crank lock and locking pins for the zero lash pulley that you see removed at 14:15.
@@jonmallard2176 MY EXPERIENCE WITH German cars as a tech for 40 years is , what ever you do to these engines, after they fail is a bandage and they will eventually fail again in a short time. Pretty sure as a tech at audi when every you had engine issues , 99% of the time it was a new engine in a crate.
Former Audi tech here... These are actually a whole lot easier to tear down than the older engines. The stand and adapters from Audi for the V6 was like 20k. The table the pull them out was another 10k.
Can you do full timing and major repairs with the engine still in the car?
very curious how the dual cam lobes are operated at the different rpm ranges.
@@Dead_Fighter_Pilots Same. I suspect the lobes move from left to right on the shaft. The solenoid engages ramps on the lobes so when they turn the "lobes" follow. You can just barely see some splines under the cam lobes when he does a close up on the shafts.
@@Dead_Fighter_Pilotsit's called Miller Cycle, or in VW/Audi jargon, Budack Cycle. At low loads, it engages the low profile cam, that has low lift and closes the intake valves very early, before bottom dead center. It does this to get lower pumping losses. It's effective, Mercedes has this too on the 2.0 turbo, and gets very good fuel consumption out of a very powerful engine.
Fun, that you need a entirely seperate station for just one engine. Easier to just... not bother
"Many feeler gauges of thickness". Yes Eric, Yes it is.
Americans will use any measuring system rather than the metric system ;)
"I don't wanna break this guide" unbelievably Eric lol
Omg! Yes!!!! I actually have this engine in my SQ5 and cannot wait to watch this video!
Well, 2 minutes in and no, no one has tuned them to 450/600 with just a simple flash tune…
Nope no one ever
Have a SQ5, should I be nervous now?
@@rleger123have you turned yours up?
I think a flash tune might've been the reason for the warranty denial. Also the case of failure if it was a particularly aggressive tune, putting a ton more boost without the proper supporting mods (upgraded intercooler, radiator etc.) will mean a lot more heat, so heads start warping and more boost will 'help' compression go past the head gaskets.
@@raoulrr
Don't forget the "hot V"....all that heat going out into the V...
oh wait.....
that's the 'side" of the head/block that got really really hot
right where the unitary exhaust goes out to the turbo?
Do an oil change 😂😂
If you don't have the appropriate tool, you can make a slide hammer to get the caps off. You can use x2 dynabolt.
Tighten the dynabolted up in the boss on both sides on the caps and then make a slide hammer to suit
Add a plate across the two Dynabolts, and then you can attach a slide hammer to the plate and then slide hammer off
The machine work on that engine is state of the art. Just beautiful to look at. Thanks Eric.
And totally over engineered for what it is.
For what it is? I mean, it’s compact, and the casting is obviously designed to be very strong but as lightweight as possible. I was prepared for yet another truly over-engineered positively infuriating German engine, and I was pleasantly surprised to be wrong. In my opinion, this might be one of the least “over engineered” engines I’ve seen in the modern era. It’s refreshingly free of gratuitous parts, moving and otherwise, and it’s refreshingly free of plastic and other cut-cost parts. Everything you see makes sense, like it was done for good reason. There’s a lack of unnecessary timing chains, idlers, tensioners, or guides, and the water pump isn’t buried under there. The cam chains counterrotate using the geared balance shaft to drive them reducing chain length and weight. The hot Vee is all the better to feed the turbos. The timing chains being on the “wrong” end makes it more compact. The unique camshaft/valve cover assembly is also simple, compact, and leads to shorter engine height. In addition to timing phasers on the intake and exhaust sprockets, the assembly also incorporates a simple mechanism equivalent to Honda V-TEC (specifically, V-TEC’s selectable cam profiles) without stepping on Honda’s toes. It’s no Ford 300, but those days are over and they aren’t coming back. For its feature set, I’ll dare say it, this Audi is almost minimalist.
@@johnarnold893 _" totally over engineered for what it is."_
And how would you have achieved the same power, torque, weight and fuel economy/emissions with less engineering?
These things are over engineered hence why they can take so much horsepower with relatively little work.
@@ferrumignis With a V8 LS, pushrods and compactness at fraction of the cost - $10k. LS may be a little less fuel efficient, but the difference in cost makes up for that. Audi engines are ridiculous complex and so expensive at over $30k for a V6 and $40K for a V8. Further, LS engines do not require replacement of cheap valve guides at 60 to 80 k miles.
Checked my book, I've done 6 of these engines which had multiple head gasket breaches as you found, every single one was warrantied as soon as we found the head gasket issue, meaning new replacements were fitted (£32K/job). Each removed one was a complete teardown, wash and rebuild with head and block skims AND new shells, timing gear all round. Total cost £4Kper engine, majority being labour.
Madness 🙄 a, they don't have the ability or b, the Labour costs per hour are Laughable, c, I would demand a new Car with the new Engine if it was just months old like his Engine looked !!!
Simple repair for a real Mechanic - By the way that residue coolant in the oil would mostly evaporate off with a 10 mile drive, So the Engine did not need a full strip down if the Block was Flat, Just a couple of oil changes.
“… with a dose of M.M.O. to help clean things out?”
@@dennisyoung4631 snake oil
Were those head gaskets faulty or did something else go wrong and the person kept driving anyhow - CAUSING the more serious engine damage? People are dumb and they'll take a chance rather than take a walk.
It had a water pipe burst loosing its coolant..causing head gasket failure
I am a nurse. When you pulled off the oil pump chain cover, I had flashbacks to the worst things I have seen when I have taken a diaper off my patients.
Pepsifester. It does stink
But a different stink
🙈
🤣🤣
What was his/her name? 😂
That's funny.
So we can make fun of your patients.
Some laughter might help the recovery.
Any parent would have seen that as well, lol. I don't miss changing diapers.
I used to come here to learn about engine tear downs. I now come here to see what you do with the chain tensioners. This time was 10 out of 10!
I requested this engine a while back and never thought you’d ever get one! How cool. Too bad the intakes and turbo didn’t come with.
I think the engine DID die quickly...the oil cooler seemed like it had normal oil on one side and 'forbidden milkshake' on the other, so it didn't seem to get to purge the whole oil cooler of actual-oil before it gave up/was shut down.
This engine's engineering is really looking pretty amazing, honestly. I like it a lot. I'd love to find out what that engine had happen to it.
That S5 thermostat was worth about $550 & $480 to install. Should have kept it ! Lol
It's been bathed in super hot coolant or steam........
not reliable any more??
Eric won't even consider selling it.....
I saw something get thrown into the waste bin, but was it the thermostat from this engine.....
@@wino99999
Yes.
The chances of it being overheated were too great to allow Eric to ethically sell it...
and anyway he always throws thermostats away....
I'm not sure how these are designed, but an overheat could easily have subtly ruined the thermostat. Traditional 'wax pellet' thermostats use a wax that only significantly expands when it reaches a critical temperature. The wax continues to expand if it gets hotter. The operating spring compensates for some expansion, but when it bottoms out some wax will escape. The missing wax results in a thermostat that still starts opening at the target temperature, but doesn't fully open until a much higher temperature.
This effect is amplified in an ECU controlled thermostat. Those use a heating element in the wax to allow the ECU adjust the operating temperature while remaining fail-safe as a traditional thermostat if something goes wrong. During an overheat ECU will operate the embedded heater at full force in an attempt to cool the engine, possibly ruining the thermostat in an attempt to save the engine.
Older ECUs didn't log this as a failure event. Perhaps this Audi does, and also logged how many times it warned the driver that something was wrong.
I will not modify a new 3000$ engine. Why young people will eagerly modify 30,000$ engine speaks to apathy and stupidity.
Funny Eric that you chose this engine this weekend as it seems it was nearly defective out of the box, just like the new GM fuel pump my coworker bought for his 07 Sierra 1500, which I spent my Saturday helping him install. His old fuel pump still worked but there was this strange wetness and fuel smell from the top of the old pump😉. After we dealt with all rusty straps, removed the fuel line from the old pump and got it all back in the truck we found that when you cycle the key the new pump would only pump for about two seconds and no fuel was getting to the engine.
We tried plugging in the old pump (which the truck drove in with, and was now oddly missing its fuel outlet fitting) to see if it powered up any differently, it didn’t. We looked for bent pins on connectors, plugged evap lines, etc, before finally dropping the tank again and comparing the pumps, we couldn’t spot any differences between them. It wasn’t until we tried powering up both pumps, while only partially submerged in gas, that we found the problem. The old pump would push fuel out of the broken(and slightly brown) outlet, the new pump was just splashing fuel around inside the lower housing that surrounds the actual pump. This pointed us towards the actual problem with the new GM pump. The actual fuel pump had a broken outlet where it connected to the rest of the plastic pump housing, and was just pumping fuel back into the tank. After a few deals were made over the phone between my coworker and the GM dealer we installed the old pump in the new housing and the truck ran fine.
I ended up finding your channel with the tear down of the Subaru WRX VA engine. Now I'm just binge watching your videos to learn absolutely everything about every engine. I love how the variable cam works in this engine, although you didn't really cover it, there a few parts I watched several times to figure it out. Your humor is on point. I'd to request that you take a bit of time to go over strange/new technologies like variable cam timings... I'm not done the video, so if you cover it, ignore me. Thanks!
Had a 70's Datsun 2 ltr 4 cyl truck. Blew a heater hose on the way to work and continued my trip (3 miles). I watch heat gauge and it stayed in the safe zone. Problem is gauge sender is in the block and the head didn't have coolant. Relatively easy to pull head, get it planed and re-installed but a lesson that cost. Thanks for sharing video.
Worth mentioning Eric that the balance shaft is spun by that idler gear above the back of the crankshaft, which clearly has a built in counter weight, to oppose the counter weight at the front of the engine.
Fascinating tear down, more than impressed with your knowledge and ability to pull these mills apart.
Great respect and so damned sad for the owner of the car and the expense they must have had. Well done and keep up the amazing work!
I actually got Audi commercial breaks in this video. 😂
Take that as a warning!
@@tomrogers9467 yeah.
LOL. No way!
I got Peugeot commercial, a simultaneous malfunction occurred within a hydro elastic suspension pipe forcing my butt cheeks backward 45% from level plane forcing me to admire a skilled GF's presence upon the leaky issue
I've watched you for a long time and my wife will generally watch. I have to add a little more narrative for her to understand what you are doing. On occasion, I get exhausted watching you because I think, 'Thank the Lord, that is not me trying to work on one of my engines'...which I used to do...before I was 89 with two new knees. I pretend that my engine work went as smoothly as yours while knowing it never did. Right now, my 1996 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon (5.7 liter) needs a power steering hose. I have someone I will trust to do that. Thanks for the good cheer and hard work that I do not have to do.
I own an S4 with this engine. It is a great car and is reliable as long as you follow ALL maintenance religiously, and perform proper visual checks every week or two. My car is tuned. I do all my own maintenance and work, but I enjoy it. The technology in this engine is awesome. The built in velocity stacks on the intake!!?!? I cannot believe no one has mentioned that in the comments yet. Also, if you didn't notice from the video, this engine has an integral exhaust manifold--meaning the entire exhaust manifold is inside. This is done for better thermal capacity. It helps with the hot V design and also emissions to get the engine up to temp extremely quick. Very cool technology balancing performance with emissions. I would say do not buy a car with a EA839 engine unless you love cars and know how to work on modern engines, or you must have the money to dish out for repairs and proper maintenance. High performance GT sedans with this engine, you must pay to play people--or have the knowledge to know how to service your engine yourself.
Could buy a Tesla and never work on it. Just drive it until 300K-400K miles and if the battery degrades too much, current costs a fraction of an Audi engine and it just keeps getting cheaper.
I suspect the main bearing caps were installed cryogenically. Freeze the caps to a shrinking point, install. At room temperature, they'll fit snuggly.
Called an 'interference fit.' At room temperature the bearing caps are actually larger than the block. Also used to install bearings on shafts so they stay tight.
2.45am in Germany 🇩🇪.
Perfect time to watch a new Taredown 😎.
Perfrct time, perfect engine
In the event you don't know the correct spelling is "teardown" I just wanted to leave this comment
Also in Germany, 2:26 in the "morning".
Dave's auto center in Utah.Needs that engine for an S5 now for parts or rebuild.
I just saw that video, customer just bought that Audi too and the engine blew
@@MrJimmy3459 Dave is trying to say its the oil type when its literally just a crap design
@@MrJimmy3459 The only car where the dealer tells you " I think Audi says 1qt/lt every 1000mi is acceptable but no customer will ever agree that is normal. My S5 goes through 1qt every 5~6kmi."
Just came over from that video. He had it mounted on a stand
Even my old Honda Civic has some obscene rating of "One quart per 3000 miles" or something. I mean, I guess that much oil in TOTAL may not be an awful sign in a mechanical sense, but that's losing/burning way too much for my liking. STRICTLY speaking, though, I suppose it's not necessarily a *warrantable* amount of oil loss, so I see what they are saying. Sort-of.
Those solenoids are for shiftable cams to use the different profiles. GM has been doing the same on their 2.0L "LSY" and the 2.7L "Turbomax" engines from 2019+ on both cams. There's a high lift, low lift, and no lift (AFM) profiles.
I wonder if in time and high miles those sliding splines will start wearing out and cam lobes start binding when trying to shift. I guess time will tell.
Also yes those 'cam carrier' gaskets do leak, the 2.0L engine specifically are notorious for it and require retiming the engine but the chain and cams are locked during the repair.
Audi's used this system (they call it AVS) on a few engines now, going back over a decade, and I haven't heard of it going bad. On my VW GTI's gen 3 EA888 specifically, the main issue is the VVT solenoids (not the lift ones) going bad from being run low on oil consistently
Should have a fail-safe, likely low lift, but today who knows, probably fails into afm!
Love to see, machine shop diagnosis of warpage, on heads, block, valve covers and cylinder bore.
Hey Eric, can’t wait for the video of you reassembling that engine, very interesting tear down, hardly surprising they wrote it off seeing all that mess coming out of the oil drain sump but how much could have been saved instead of a new engine and the economics of it.
Nice! I think I saw an EA837 Supercharged 3.0T from Audi in the background. Would love to see that teardown!
I promise, one of the three of those that came in will be on the channel soon
@@I_Do_Cars 2.0 pt pinto. we would mount them by the engine mount. so we could build the whole engine. HINT. make a brkt..pivoting..
@@I_Do_Cars big ends. proly need a diff spreader, ish..
Makes me wonder if the dealer didn't pull the computer's logs and see a flash tune. Instant warranty denial.
Easy and likely. Better to under run an engine than blow it. They ain't cheap!
Only at first - the burden is still on Audi at that point to prove that the tune caused the damage or failure. A smart customer that now has breakdown evidence could go back and fight this one. This is a clear fault failure there was no damage or evidence to show that any modifications could have caused this damage.
@@dontimlin4506 I wish thats how it was but its not unfortunately. Most euro brands void the warranty the moment you scan a car that has a tune. As a former BMW tech at a dealer, the moment I hooked a car up with a tune, that was it, the files are remotely uploaded to BMWs server and a record is kept. Once you tune a BMW its recorded forever in the ECMs programming data
That's what happened!
Standard protocol is to scan vehicle to check for aftermarket tune. If the car isn't scanned warranty claim is automatically denied and dealership has to foot the bill.
This was a joy to watch. I tore down and rebuilt a GEN2 4.2 V8. The technology is very similar.
Neat! Thank you for this tear down. Not everyday you get a brand new one to disassemble and see the latest technology/design.
MSRP was $56,395 to $64,495 for the coupe and $64,495 to $72,595 for the convertible. A bill for half the price of the car seems like a replace-the-car scenario to me.
That works if you don't have a note on it.
Close call. Buy a new one or lightly used one and part out the old one. Hopefully a specialist salvage yard would pay decent money for it.
“the car still had temp tags on it”
I'm laughing because all the EV haters keep going on about the price of a replacement high voltage battery writing off the car.
ICE engines are just as bad.
I would never understand why anyone would do that. At that point I'd just go ls1 swap for a small fraction of the cost
This car didn’t overheat and caused the warranty to be voided. Someone got a nice hot tune in it, with to much boost, and it lifted the head! These engines are notorious for lifting the cylinder head, in the center most upright bore. Even with arp studs, it still a gamble under high boost- we see these tend to lift the heads around the 550-600hp area or, if the tuner don’t know what they are doing, and have to much timing/boost and fire slots the head/block
My guess also.
@@xzox uh because we can…….. mines been living life at 700whp for the last 3.5 years at 120k miles. It’s fun. Turns heads, blast to drive. To each there own though
I worked on a vw 10+ years ago and told myself ill never buy anything vw again and dont regret it to this day
Great engineering is accomplishing complicated things done in simple ways. However, VW loves to do simple things in complicated ways. For absolutely no reason. They even do stupid things like make the flywheel bolt holes all the way through the crank shaft so if you don't make sure to seal the bolts completely all the way around with thread locker your actual crank shaft will leak oil and fling it all over your new clutch so that gets destroyed for no reason as well.
The right way, the wrong way, and the German way.
They're fine if you follow Elsawin, keep the oil changes. Pretty basic really. Worked on multiple engines over a period of 15 years. My wifes Octavia has 160K miles, still runs like new due to the fact that I have kept the maintenance up. Only thing replaced was battery and water pump.
My daily is a '68 beetle. Awesome car, super easy and cheap to work on. Pretty much have done everything which isn't saying much, there really isn't anything to do. Can say I can pull the engine and put it back in, in less time than it takes to change and bleed the brake master cylinder. Geez what a PITA. I know you weren't going all the way back to the date with your comment, but if you want a solid, easy car to maintain, those fit the bill.
@@nomagic-t1l old German tech is amazing its all the newer things that went down a steep hill. I recently had a 1992 mercedes 420 and it was a tank with 180k miles all original and running like new
How about a collaboration with @VAG Technic? Just box up the parts and send it to them for a rebuild. It seems they are always tearing-down engines, and this one would a good replacement for anyone that has blown up a 2017+ 3.0 TFSI.
“ I have created a Situation……” my new life motto! I need a T shirt that’s says this…..
It just kills me how people buy a brand new car, rag on it, tune it, and beat on it some more, (and its still in the break in period) and then imagine their surprise when it blows up.
My first brand new car: 2023 Ford F150 5.0, for the first 2,000 miles, I babied it. I'm at 9,000 miles, 1 oil change in, about to do a 2nd oil change, still haven't tuned it or done any engine mods... Why? Because I like my warranty.
car could have been stolen then thrashed? Car thieves tend not to care if a coolant hose blows..
@@wilson2455 The insurance company would have totaled it, paid out to the owner and the car would be in COPART lot..
Yep. I have a kia cerato GT. Lotta guys do a flash tune, turn up the boost etc. As soon as they get the car new. Like you i like my 7 year new car warranty..
All of my new Ford trucks I have babies until 30k then all the mods come out and no problems.
police report would have been generated
The more I watch modern engines being torn down, the more I love my Buick 3800.
ok external pil pump boy
And then we drive a modern day car and hate the Buick 😂😂😂
I got the Oldsmobile 3.5, most powerful engine used in a W chassis. Very good engine.
man, I had the 3800 in my first car, a 06 regal. the fucking car fell apart around me, but I was able to drive it to the junkyard under its own power and even the day she went had just as powerful of a motor as ever. I had just hydroplaned into the wall on the highway and fucked the front end, so it was toast even though I still drive it with no front bumper and a bent bumper bar and missing a headlight for 4 or 5 months after that. lol. good times being 16 years old. but that 3800 will always hold a special place in my heart
I had a dodge dakota 3.9l V6, radiator went while I was on the highway, after getting to a safe spot the engine locked up, it wouldn't even crank when I turned the key. Had it towed, put a new radiator in it, and it was good to go. Ran fine, no lost coolant. Thing was a tank.
When you pulled the oil pump drive cover, it looked like someone gambled on a Taco Bell fart....and lost.
😂😂😂😂💩
i always lose on that gamble lol
Bahahaha! Run not the runs from Audi's.
LOLOL
You are approaching owning Saturday evening the way the NFL owns Sundays
Cause Saturday night's the night I like
Saturday night's alright alright alright
Even though the nfl is just sports entertainment now days everything planned like wwe and aew wrestling
@@Jihadbearzwithgunz
Friday Night Smackdown…meet Saturday Night Teardown.
Or you can get a life instead of watching the nfl who thinks you’re an alcholic mouth breather🤷♂️
I have no idea why UA-cam recommended me this video, oddly satisfying to watch/listen to while I was gaming...
thanks I guess lol
If I had to guess, they probably modded the engine in some way. VAG are very much sticklers about modding and warranties. You mod it, you void it. Could also be what caused the gasket failure.
Any dealer would deny if a tune shows up.
@@Confirm_selection I work for a Kia dealer. After the bad publicity from recent engine problems, Kia replaced an engine that was tuned, simply to avoid the arguments. We felt it was just encouraging bad behavior, but it wasn't our decision. We got the warranty income, of course.
Lmao. Kia is a far cry from Audi my friend. @@greeneyesms
@@greeneyesms The 2.4L n/a engines are the crappy ones. No chance someone tried tuning one of those--
speaking on mounting the engine to a stand, all cwgd engines taken out are normally held on with chains on an engine hoist. That is the purpose of the black hook receivers on the heads, and is what is used at my dealership. Thank you for the great content and tearing down of this audi engine, I normally see these having sparkles in the oil as little as 5k miles so sooner or later I hoped to see you tear one down.
You don't really want to be half pulling apart an engine on a hoist, though. That's asking for trouble.
Terribly sorry to hear you have to fix things like that.
Thanks!
Thank you! Hope you enjoyed it!
Hi Eric, this is so exciting to see, the way the camshafts are mounted etc. I would really like to hear the story on this engine.
"Oh your valve cover is leaking..... We would need to pull the engine because the transmission is in the way of the timing chain that's connected to the cams that are encased in the valve cover.... $7,000 please."
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Just bought a souvenir from this one! Something to remind me to take care of my 2024 EA839
Oh my goodness, the engine puke at 35.50 is a thing for horror movies. LOL. Great teardown this week.
I was just a few bites into my dinner when that happened and it nearly put me off my whole meal!!
I’m just watching now and just about there. Now I’m really curious!
Wow, that's a very impressive engine! I've heard they are reliable, but seeing the design, I can understand a bit better why they are good.
Obviously the owner bought a bad tune. And of course the tuner will take no responsibility for blowing the engine.
Thank you for the great descriptive review. On the table, with you pointing it out, I recognize things. Under the hood, covered in plastic, not so much. WOW no specialized tools - no Timing Belt Cover Puller for Audi 3.0 (2019-2022)
Moral of the story. Dont mess with the tune, or boost if you cant afford to replace a 30k dollar engine.
Did he say the failure was a result of modification?
@@guthrie_1 as a euro tech, warranty kicked it for one of two reasons, one, the car overheated and the customer (ignoring warning lights) drove until the car shut off. or option two, it had an aftermarket tune on the car, either situation would have resulted in audi denying the warranty. saw it happen at bmw with a m340i with a stage one flash tune, car lost compression and bmw kicked the claim, customer paid out of pocket for repairs.
@@guthrie_1 in deed tuned turbo-pressure and messing with the ecu also was the first possible reason, which came to my mind seeing the damage and getting the fact, that warranty was denied.
@@guthrie_1 He said a coolant line burst that was unrelated to a manufacturing defect, so I'm going to go with "yes" unless a squirrel ate through it or something
@@pb7379-j2k yeah I’m not aware of any bolt on modification that causes coolant lines to burst.
Honestly the cams/valve cover being an assembly is pretty neat.
Agreed.
And then they put the timing system in the rear of the engine…
Germans.
Especially no bearings - just using the cap and valve cover housings as the bearing material.
@@salninethousand2496 Bare aluminum used as cam bearings has been common for decades. It is reliable and long lasting as long as there is at least some oil flow and the oil is well filtered. Anything the oil will chew up the aluminum casting on the way through.
The difference here is that the larger casting is used to resist the primary forces rather than cam caps. That might result in less flex, which could improve longevity, or a lighter assembly.
There isn't any argument about wear on the more expensive larger casting vs cam caps. Cam carriers are line bored. Wearing out the bearing surface on either side means that the whole assembly is trash.
@@1djbeckerBut then you can replace just the carrier instead of the whole head.
@@802Garage There are plenty of engines where the cam carrier is not part of the head casting. The primary reason is usually machining geometry, but it allows using an alloy with improved wear resistance.
very fun to watch - old aircraft mechanic, worked on metric airplanes half the time USAF the other. an engine i would typically work on is the 4360 engine on the Shakey aircraft. big cargo 4 engine C-124 Globemaster II transport.
As someone who drives a '96 Tacoma 2.4L 2wd I'm always looking for parts due to extreme rust. Though I love the fact that my grandpa, who had the truck before me, installed a supercharger kit on it. It is so much fun as I'm still continuing to add different things to it. I would love to see either of the two four cylinder (2.4 2rz-fe or 2.7 3rz-fe) 1st gen Tacoma engines torn down.
They're all still running
Eric... Eric... how many times have you drained an engine because you didn't want to turn it upside down with all that in it and make a mess. And here you are proving yourself 100% correct. 😂😂
Thanks for the video, this was a fascinating look into modern engine design. Even the Main caps were lightened. A lot of people will probably have bad things to say about modern VWAG cars and engines but the quality of the parts in that engine were really apparent. Unfortunately, you probably can't see any of it when it's in the car as it's buried under 8 miles of hoses and wiring.
I just replaced a chrysler 3.6 pentastar because the warranty was denied. The '22 Ram sat at the dealer for 2 or 3 months before they said chrysler denied the claim. The 3.6 threw a rod and locked up on the highway. The owner told me the dealer did the oil change the first 30k miles, and then he had receipts for four other oil changes. It had 45k miles on it. Chrysler claims 60k drivetrain warranty. Guess they can deny for whatever reason which they gave "lack of maintenance" as the reason. He ended up buying a salvage 90k mile engine, and it's back on the road.
The dealer quoted $15k to replace the engine. The supplier I use said $6500 on a new longblock. After the salvage engine and labor, along with new water pump, fluids, etc, it cost him $5300. But, it shouldn't have cost him a thing.
That's why you just get a bimmer lol
43:40 I freaking SNORTED. Loudly. Then rewound, to hear it again. Love your channel bro.
I expect boring jokes from the machinists, not the mechanics
You know there’s a german engineer watching this yelling nine ! Nine! Not that way!
Oh mein lieber Schweinehund, du hast keinen Respekt vor feinster deutscher Technik! Das war mein bester Entwurf.
Correction NEIN
I'm picturing one of those "Hitler finds out" clips
It's Nein, Nein, Nein, lol
Remember if its German Engineers its over engineered garbage! Just look at German tanks in WW2. Yeah they were awesome, when they werent broke down. German tanks werent designed to be field repaired. Shermans were.
First one but not the last. Unfortunately an expensive mistake. A bonanza in parts sales for u. I am happy for u. I have to admire your work ethic. Keep uploading thanks.
German cars and preventative maintenance go in hand.
Lemon Jam on the top end...I lost it!
All together now: the forbidden milkshake brings all the engines to the yard...
How long did it take to make this excellent video. It was worth. I enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks.
I knew I was outgunned when the service writer at the Porsche/Audi dealership made me feel inadequate for not paying $1,100 for an oil change! Thank you for listening. I feel better now. R
Learn how to do a service yourself. A complete service with oil + oil filter, air filter, fuel filter and cabin filter will cost about 450 to 500 on materials. Or find a good mechanic that will do it for a reasonable price. Even the reset after the service can be done without diagnostic tools moost time. These German cars (BMW, Audi, Porsche, Marceders) are critical for service because they have extreme tight tolerances and high power output to displacement. where you can be lazy with air, fuel and cabin filters your oil service should not be neglected, better to soon than to late. Also the engine must be used calmly until it is at temperature (90deg celsius) before you squeeze out all the power. If you do that your engine will not end up on this channel.
If you signed the estimate with "R" I'd overcharge you as well 😆
jeez what vehicle?
@@azi6477$500 worth of filters? Holy cow!
Just had a oil changed on my VW at Vavoline. Psst. the 1.8 TSI engine is the same engine as in an Audi TT. Cost $125 which I thought was high. Only thing I get VW to service is Trans fluid changes. Last one I had done cost about $240. Valvoline don't drop the drain plug to drain the oil, , they suck the oil out of the dip stick tube. At least they don't forget to tighten the drain plug that way. Cheers.
the days of telling your 16 year old son go fix his car is over
My 16 year old son's first car would never have been an Audi. It would have been with money he earned.
Only if you buy modern. My friend Sam and I can swap out an LS motor from a silverado in 2 hours flat if we wanted. Weve done an LS swap with 4 guys in about 40 minutes. Modern engines are overly complex with BS valve timing. Its all a gimmick.
You don't have to buy your 16 year old son a brand new Audi S5 you know.
If you look at the used car market, prices or skyrocketing. I know this has a lot of factors including the economy. Yet, you're going to start seeing more more people keeping older vehicles going. I have a 2005 Yukon that I just put a 60,000 mi 5'3 in. I'm slowly repairing everything on it because they just don't make them like that anymore. I'm sure every generation says this though so I guess we'll see.
@@nissan300ztt It's been forced on the manufacturers by emissions & fuel economy regulations.
something so satisfying about watching an engine rebuild! you're doing God's work!!!
I’m a tech at Audi and we recently had an S5 in the shop (maybe like three months ago) anyways it had 1800 miles on it and had a bad knock. Low compression in like 4 and 5 or something. Metal in the oil filter. Anyways it was tuned so warranty was denied. I’m kind of wondering if this is the engine. Came from Raleigh, NC.
I had an 01 2.8ltr wagon that had 295K miles. I took it in for all oil changes and maintenance to the dealer I bought it from. They had these weird locking coolant hoses and at the last visit they didn't make sure to push the lower hose all the way on the radiator. After it stalled just a couple of blocks away, I had it towed back to the dealer. They refunded 200 of my 2500 dollar bill and told me I would have to sue to get the rest back because the car had so many miles that it wouldn't have run much longer anyway. The scrapper gave me another 250 for the car and Audi has lost a customer for life. These engines do not survive an overheat.
You SHOULD have sued them. Always call their bluff with three estimates higher than theirs plus legal expenses. They would have lost and you would have gotten paid.
Sounds like you blamed the manufacturer for the dealers mistake....
I would have sued. Why else would someone sink $2500 but to enjoy it another 50K miles.
Wow. I'd be sick to be in that situation and I feel bad for the owner. This motor has to be among the most beautiful factory motors around.
I would love to see you tear down a 2.4 SRT4 that came in the 2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT with the aluminum intake. If you can get your hands on one. Great video as usual.
Had one brand new and used to smoke unsuspecting Mustangs LOL
I really thought you were gonna leave those guides alone lol
If I may humbly offer, you ought to buy what I call a spatula. A heavy bladed 3” wide super putty knife. I think that would be the ticket for loosening tough gasket sealer. Good for prying loose all kinds of things. Using your crow bar seems like a bad idea.
Eric: "You guys thought I was gonna throw that?"
Me: "Yes, 100%, no questions asked, definitely, absolutely."
How do you rupture a coolant line that soon?
Yeah something seems off how could a new car burst a line without it being a manufacturer defect. Sounds like the owner did something wrong and just expected the warranty covered it if within the warranty term.
Drained the coolant and went for a drive.
Ran over something, flipped it up, and cut the hose would be my guess.
In other parts of the world, this engine would have been fixed in 2-3 days without changing major parts and been as good as ever.
Beautifully engineered modern engine. This was a great teardown! Very leaky mess, though.
Engineered to be thrown away when it breaks, pure genius.
@@PaulLorenzini-ny2yw Some people are simply unable to accept an engine is good if it isn't some pushrod dinosaur.
These aren’t engineered to be thrown away but engineered to take a hammering and be fine, you can track an Audi S or RS engine safely all day unless it’s modified which you wouldn’t want to do with most American engines
@@ferrumignis Ask any Audi dealer mechanic about these engines and they'll tell you that they actually fail quite frequently. They are NOT "good" engines. But if you want to pretend all this overcomplicated, absurdly-overpriced garbage somehow actually benefits humanity -- and you, too -- then so be it.
...But it won't end well. .. Not for you, nor for anyone else, either.
That timing system uses only 2 short chains. Audi, you losing your touch. Didn't the last version had 3 or 4 chains with with miles of chain. 😂
This is a well built engine. Lots of improvements. That bottom end is impressive strong design. One step short of those caps being part of the block.
15:50 Why does it need a vacuum pump? To power brake booster? 27:15 Good access to the water pump and T-stat.
The cams with the lobes that are grooved is an awesome piece of engineering.
I'd have liked a better looh at them - they are clearly slid along the shaft to switch between the two profiles.
Surprised the engine management system didn't de-power or stop the engine before it got so hot? Did the driver not read the dash warning information?
Some of the temperature sensors don't read if there is no water in the coolant pipes. Even so, they do have a low coolant sensor too.
@@Billy97ify And they didn't notice the plumes of white smoke out of the exhaust?
@@drp457 Too late then.
This was a tuned engine. Very possible they were on a speed run and at high engine speeds. There was minimal damage so most likely he drove it back hoping it would be ok. lol
They have oil temp sensors so it would more than likely have had warning lights on, I suspect it ran in limp mode for a little while and then shut off hence why it looks like it didn’t run for long like that
From my 35 years in the imported auto service business, including 20 years in my own shop, I am amazed at the technological changes and efficiencies of today's engines..
That multi lift cam and cast-in trumpets was cool
I have a 2021 Porsche Macan GTS with a some kind of Audi turbo V6. A couple of months ago I picked a rock that smacked the radiator and broke a coolant line. As soon as I noticed warnings and fume coming out from the hood I stopped and had the car towed in. Lucky nothing bad happened, the radiator was replaced and all is good. And it wasn't covered under warranty just like this guy but my comprehensive part less deductible covered the repair. In these modern high performance cars you have to take fluid leaks seriously.
Glad to see that Audi is still making DIY maintenance as difficult as possible for the owners by doing brilliant things like locating the timing chain at the back of the engine requiring an engine out service/repair. BMW and Mercedes aren’t any better and have their share of messed up designs on what should be simple designs. A $5 gasket costing $1200 in labor to replace at the dealer is something Audi, BMW and Mercedes probably all have in common.
So what? Chain anyway is for whole lifetime of engine. On my mazda 6 chain has already 200k km and no problems. Audi is high performance car, of course it's tightly packed under the hood to fit such big and powerfull engine
Great video. Enjoyed it very much. I spent 18 years working on German cars at both Dealerships and Independents. When customers asked me why they cost so much to repair I remind them they lost the war and are still upset about it.
It feels weird looking at such a fresh engine being torn down
Edit: yeah those weird looking intake cams are variable lift. It's called AVS: Audi Valvelift System. Have the same arrangement on the exhaust side in my mk7 GTI
I’m going to miss the DSG in my MkV but I’m stuffing 500hp worth of LS in the front with a 6 speed and making it rear drive. My perfect roller skate.
@@HappyHarryHardon as good as the DSG is, an LS swapped rear drive mk5 is gonna be a whole lot cooler. Reminds me of the Artz 928 with the stretched mk1 body