Reviews of OEM Volkswagen timing chain

Yes they are timing chain. I bought my wife a 2016 sport 5spd new and its almost 80k miles now, only repair is the line going from the res to the slave started leaking, replaced that and all is good, no other leaks, doesn't appear to use any oil between changes and no other repairs.

So over the weekend I replaced the following Timing Chain N205 Tensioner Intake Cam Magnetic actuator Cam bridge Cam sensor Car is not throwing the MDF message but the chain rattle is still there.

I believe that the the timing chain goes bad a lot. And is located in a spot that some people would rather just replace the engine after the chain fails.

I owned one, put 100k miles on it and never had a single issue with anything that wasn't caused by abuse. At that mileage you will want to listen to the timing chains as it may need new guides and tensioners.

I have a 2008 1.4 TSI Tiguan bought from South African VW dealer, full dealer servicing too. Have had the coils replaced 7 times( kept burning out) spark plugs 4 times ( kept burning out too) and variouse other faults giving a total of 13 returns under warranty. The vehicle is now out of warranty with 139000 Km's (86000 miles) and the timing chain has failed bending valves etc. The vehicle took 3 weeks to repair and I had to pay R31000 ($2600 us) had a meeting with VWSA who say its normal wear and tear would not assist and didn't even apologies .

After I clear the code the CEL light stays off for about 15-20 miles or 2 cycles and then reappears. It has now been 400 miles since the timing chain work was done - plenty of time for the computer to 'adjust to the new part'. Although the idle has smoothed out a little bit, I'm afraid the car was not properly fixed.

my biggest gripe with the vr6 is that to do any major work to it you need to pull it and the transmission out of the car. Want to put in cams? Pull it out of the car. Want to change the head gasket? pull it out of the car. need to Pull a worn rod? pull it out of the car. This is all the result of VW putting the timing chain ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ENGINE!