brylan

Hey All, I just registered after a while of reading through many threads and love the feedback and support you guys have around here. I'm hoping to bounce some ideas around and maybe find the cause of my problems.

I have recently purchased a 2009 TT roadster with 2.0T TFSI quattro. It had 98,000km on it when I got it 6 weeks ago and is now about 102,000km.

This past weekend I was driving around as normal, went over a railroad crossing, it was a little bit rough but nothing major, and arrived at a stop sign maybe 150meters ahead. When i went to take off from the stop sign, there was no power and the car had died. All the electronics were working fine - radio, windows, stereo, lights etc - I had a check engine light, and battery light on the dash, and the engine was not running. Trying to restart the engine I only got a single click and nothing more, it was not trying to crank over (I could see the serpentine belt move maybe 1/2", but thats it), and the starter was not clicking.

So I got it towed to the shop that my work has where we have a couple of heavy duty mechanics. Today they were looking at my car, they said the battery was dead (which is weird, I dont know why that would happen as it has just been sitting indoors for 5 days), so they put a new battery in and still nothing when trying to start it, now the starter will click multiple times, but the engine still does not try to turn over, just moves maybe a half inch. So they pulled the starter out, and when trying to turn the engine by hand, same thing, it will only move about 1/2" and is completely stuck, with or without the battery connected.

Scanning the codes reveals the crankshaft position sensor, but I don't think that would cause the engine to not move at all?

I'm having the car towed up to a specialist in the area in a few days who only works on imports and high end cars as I do not want to take it to the dealer. but If i can try anything in the meantime to make his life easier (and my bill lower) I will. I have access to the shop and my friend and I wrench our own cars 90% of the time, but this is a little out of our experience.

Thoughts?

After reading other threads, I feel like this is a timing chain tensioner failure and I'm in for some serious work.

NSDrowned

I'm having the exact same problem. Did you by any chance solve the problem?

brylan

It was a bearing, can't exactly remember the name, balance shaft bearing I think.

Anyway I ended up buying a brand new engine from a place here in Ontario Canada, it was a newer, European version of the engine and was fully assembled, just needed to swap a couple of sensors and the wiring harness over, even included the turbo and everything.

All in I was about $5,500 to get the engine and have it installed, and had parts left over to sell from the old engine.

After that the car ran great of course, but slowly started to run into a bunch of electrical issues with the windows, and the convertible top.

I was pretty sour after having to replace the engine, so when these things started happening, I traded in the car and will probably never touch an Audi again.

txdesign

Do you think that's fair? You bought a used high mileage Audi with probably unknown service history. The car likely had multiple owners who may have neglected the car.
This scenario could apply to any make/model.