Quote Originally Posted by REVHE4D View Post
Some googling later I find Ameroks having timing belts turn to spaghetti, or the bearings going on the tensioner, causing the bird noise. Vw now include a belt cover that was non existent before, they know about these issues, so you could say I am not happy about having to pay for my kit even though my Vw is out of warranty, but had no choice. I am appalled Vw are cutting corners like this to save money, all the Egr issues I've had and cv boot going, now a radiator hose leaking. This should not happen to a vehicle that is less than 5 years old. I love driving the Vw but it seems to me to be turning into a money pit.

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I agree with you, that many components in todays vehicles do fail much sooner than we'd like.

Now, back to your Robustness kit question.
Did they ask you, if you want to have the timing belt done? If yes, then they just used updated component and not much you can do about it, be glad that they did.

Though, if you'd refuse to have the timing belt done and the t.belt would've failed later, you'd have nobody else to blame but yourself. Since, it's normal scheduled maintenance for Australia, "Timing belt renewal - every 7years or 105,000km whichever come first."