HELP advice needed please

[Si 42]

Hey guys after some advice please.

Had my 2012 Audi A4 a major service including cambelt 2 weeks ago. 

Just a few days after getting it back the car started to hunt on idle and then started to cut out (I don't drive the car to often its the wifes so this is just what she told me).  Then just over a week after getting it back the car stalled and upon trying to restart it the wife reported that it sounded terrible and wouldnt start.

The car has covered 111000 miles and (other than replacing the suspension) in the 2 years we have owned it we have had no mechanical problems at all.  I am just concerned that since the garage replaced the Cambelt and Waterpump the car has now gone wrong.

We had the car recovered to the garage on Saturday night (AA suggested cambelt issue) and they have now had the car for 3 days working on it bit are unsure as to whats gone wrong with it.  They claim to have someone coming to have a look later today with a more specialist Audi diagnostic tool.  

Any ideas please guys 

 

cheers 

Si 

 

 

 

[Colin Ford]

possible tensioner failure/not tightened properly

[Magnet]

Hello Si,

Colin could be right, but as with all of us responding on this forum, it can only be a guess, since we never have access to examining the vehicle.

When you say ‘the garage”, (who did the work) do you mean a main dealer, Audi specialist independent, or a local garage. If either of the latter, do you know what make parts were used, if not genuine Audi? 

If as Colin suggests, it’s a mechanical failure of one of the components in the cambelt assembly (and that does sound feasible), then that should be visible, without resorting to employing diagnostic testing, but I believe - but not certain with your model- that the front of the car has to be removed to gain access to the cambelt assembly. 

Can we take it the service and cambelt charges were considerable - perhaps you could share that information with us.

Kind regards,

Gareth.