Well now I’m emotionally invested in this series

Very helpful! Thank you! I ordered the Stevenson delete and stage 1 tube. Very excited to get installed, but was worried about deleting because I see a lot of people having issue after they start modding these cars. Mine is a daily driver, 20k a year or so. So I want reliability and fuel mileage. Hoping this was the correct route to go!

Thanks for sharing your experience with this motor. I will be looking at changing my oil cooler gaskets asap. I used my 2011 Golf TDI for lengthy commutes to work on the highway. Planning to do a delete and tune in the next month, but this is a good video to consider some additional maintenance items to address while we are in there.

I bought a ckra passat tdi and im hoping i dont get problems like this. You earned a subscribe from me.

Wow thats a bummer. I bought a CBBB DSG Passat 2009 in June and it had weird cough on idle. 205k km. Checked oil&diagnostic and nothing, drove and pulled very well. Out of nowhere it started to have a weird shake which got progressively worse and after 1 minute engine was dead. Still it had no lights, just the shake. Managed to restart it but when i looked at the engine it was shaking so bad. No fluids around the car. After it shut down it remained effectively dead. Went to mechanic and he diagnosed a faulty injector no.4. Replaced it and car started, with a terrible knock, just like in your previous video on track. Then he pulled the pan out and voila, metal everywhere, 1 rod loose just like here. Decided to get a new motor (used one anyway) with 185k from a Tiguan. It was a CBAB engine but it has the same stuff as CBBB except turbo&ecu. Pulled it out and put new one in, started the car, same engine cough. I have it on video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5OiedSfzbnWp58.htmlsi=K4tRfteG4KwUC-ch Decided to test drive and after 2 minutes car shut down with coil flashing. It couldnt start. Went back to mechanic, code was Low fuel pressure. Checked everything and finally replaced the HPFP which was causing this. Got a used pump with 165k from golf VI CGF engine or something like that. Now it works perfectly. Spent around 1k euro for the troubles. Looks like you ran into a second bad engine there. I think my old engine had some sort of repairs probably after oil pump failure of some kind, since my engines have balancer shaft oil pump.

I have two TDIs, a 2006 Jetta with 339,000 miles and a 2012 Sportwagon with 169,000 miles. Only minor repairs on the old one and it still runs great. The newer one has been great as well. On both I have run Amsoil lubricants all the life of the first one and from 90,000 (when I got it) on the newer one. I saw you put 20W40 in that car and the 2.0 diesel specs call for a 5W30 meeting VW spec 504, 507. I found that spec using Amsoil European oil and have never had a problem even running 12 -15,000 miles between changes with an Amsoil filter. The older TDI needs 5W-40 that meets VW specs for that year. The TDI is not a race engine so on the turns it probably starved it of oil and with the sludge in there it imploded. TDIs require a little TLC and to keep them running right Amsoil lubricants. Both of mine are automatics and have been serviced every 50,000 miles with Amsoil DCT fluid and whatever filter I could find. Good luck with the little Sportwagon and I hope you can get her back up and running.

Dean, I'm sorry to hear about your dead TDi. This sucks.

1:27 Ha! I know that Harbor Freight! Ironically, I went to that same store to get a jack for my SportWagen. LOL. Moved about an hour south of there a few years ago though. I'm starting to get codes and a refresh on every drive on mine.

03 alh 50+ mag average speed 70 mph it's great I love it. 03 awp 1.8t average 28 mag tight car fast also love it but the alh is daily driver great car

I just pulled the trigger on a 2012. Thanks for the heads up. What other suggestions would you recommend to change out with a high mileage TDI?

I put 40k miles on my first car, an '84 Volvo 244 intercooled turbo with an oil pressure gauge that would go to zero after warming up a bit. I never found out if it was just a bad sending unit or the B21ft was just indestructible, lol. Anyhow, I suggest you get a Sachs SRE DMF clutch kit for your TDI. The commonrails will eat the trans. with a SMF.

Pull it out and do a lower end refresh. Or do like I have done on a few cars, drop the pan and spin in new bearings as well as an oil pump. I got another 30k out of a 3.8 in a Taurus that way.

Hey Dean this engine internal stuff may as well be. Chinese, but even I can see the lack of maintenance on this engine, good luck with her!😉

now i’m scared to do an EGR, and DPF delete on my ‘15 passat TDI, along with the stage 2 malone tune because of this series lol, should i be worried of my engine eating itself like yours did? i always kept up on maintenance, oil changed every 10k miles, and i just hit 100k miles.

have you checked the oil pump hex drive shaft? these are big problem in 2.0 tdi engines.

I am late to the story, did you consider rebuilding one of the motors instead of picking up another unknown?

We need an update

Drop oil pan clean clean oil pump pick up. replace bearings and pray

Bummer. I did not expect these motors to have such dumb issues which is clearly a result of engineering oversight.

you know that spongebob meme where hes naked and exhaling deeply..... thats me right now.... just picked up a '13 jsw tdi with 95k

You convinced me not to buy that same car off CarGurus

I got a CALIFORNIA car, 2011 Jetta TDI sportwagen 115K mi, with lots of new stuff for $6,500. If you want to go in that direction, drop me a line.

Hey you wanna get rid of that front clip? I bought mine from insurance (dad hit a deer)

My 2012 tdi has 150,000 miles and runs great... Everyday I worry

Torx, triple square, inverted…. leave it up to the Germans to unnecessarily over-complicate things.

My god turn down that Fing music!

A broken rubber causing all kind of problems. Go figure 🫠