Polo has died

[bigfoot]

No, he said to go any further would mean taking it apart and he said the minute he does that we are looking at $1800 starting price.

Tell him April fool's day is not until next week

[redgoesfaster14]

Try to get more than one opinion if you're in doubt of what he's telling you

2006 Pacific Blue VW Golf MkV 1.9 77TDI Comfortline 6Spd Man
2015 Deep Black VW Polo 6C 1.2 81TSI Comfortline 6Spd Man w/Driver Comfort Pack - Hopefully pick up before Easter

[martynh]

Well I got the report from them and passed in on to Gavin (thanks mate), and to quote:

"The bit that you missed off your post on the forum is the most critical. The last 2 lines, compression test, 60PSI.

That's extremely low. A good cylinder would be 160-180 PSI. "

So I'm going to get it down to VW and hope they can come to the party and help me on a repair...

[JexL]

sounds like ignition leads or spark plugs. common fault for 77tsi should only be a few hundred to fix. I had similar issue

[martynh]

This is the full report:

[h100vw]

sounds like ignition leads or spark plugs. common fault for 77tsi should only be a few hundred to fix. I had similar issue

That won't give you low compression on one cylinder mate.

Gavin

[kaanage]

Well I got the report from them and passed in on to Gavin (thanks mate), and to quote:

"The bit that you missed off your post on the forum is the most critical. The last 2 lines, compression test, 60PSI.

That's extremely low. A good cylinder would be 160-180 PSI. "

So I'm going to get it down to VW and hope they can come to the party and help me on a repair...

Yes, that is a rather strong indication that the repair costs are going to be quite large (a piston and ring replacement at the least).
Putting up the full report in your original post would have helped for getting the correct advice.

Best of luck with how you go getting compensation from VW

[martynh]

Putting up the full report in your original post would have helped for getting the correct advice.

True that, but I didn't have it at the time!

Best of luck with how you go getting compensation from VW

Thanks, contacted Austral VW and they said it will be about $1000 to diagnose it and could be $6000+ to fix. They said they would ask VW Aus to cover it but it's out of their hands whether they do

[BurgundyMk3]

ahh yea, that would have been a good thing to know. All the best to you mate.

[Reedy]

Maybe off topic but just had the timing chain done on my wife's 2011 polo TSI free of charge as one morning it started to rattle. Its done 85000ks


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