Tiguan breakdown - battery light, loss of power and engine noise

[Mk R]

Hey all,

So we purchased a (used) 2012 2.0TSI DSG Tiguan with 84,000km a week ago and everything was looking pretty good.

Yesterday out of nowhere the we were driving it near home down a hill and the engine light came on, car lost power and we coasted into a side street. Upon trying to restart the car the engine ran loud and there was some grinding noise from the alternator area then the car stalled. The battery tested good.

I appears like the alternator has failed but i noticed the cap on the climate system compressor was half popped off after whatever disaster had just unfolded.

Car has been towed to our mechanic to get the statutory warranty process underway but was wondering if anyone had experienced something similar and had thoughts on what it may be...

Cheers!

[brad]

Timing chain tensioner?

[Mk R]

Timing chain tensioner?

Hey Brad, thanks for posting. Heard from the workshop this morning. Turned out to be an intermittent failure on the AC compressor. Now the battle to get that covered under statutory used car warranty begins!