Timing Belt Failure?

[loga]

I have an Audi A3 Sportback 2.0 TDI Sline...

I was coming off the motorway and I came to stop at the traffic lights before a round about and I could feel the car/engine losing power and eventually shutting down. The battery light was showing on the display and I tried restarting the car and it came back to life so I drove off, but after a couple of minutes the car lost power again, but this time it did not start up.

When the recovery guy turned up, he popped the bonet, had a look at the timing belt and said that was the cause. He said that it would be a big job because the engine would have been damaged and he even tried asking if I wanted to buy a Pug 205 off him that he fixed up after it had a similar issue with the timing belt.

I checked my paperwork and I had the timing belt, full kit and water pump changed in December 2016 by a local garage, so I would be surprised if the timing belt is the cause so soon.

If anyone has any ideas as to the cause or what I should do next, I would really appreciate it.

I am thinking it is time for me to change my car, does anyone have any ideas for the best way to sell the car please?

Thank you

[nevo]

Take the top cover off the timing belt and have a look!,you can tell if the belts broke as it would have turned over on the starter much easier than normal.

[Crasher]

I would be surprised if it was the belt, my expectation would be the tensioner stud has failed, this little £1 piece of **** has destroyed more BKD engines than I can guess at. Because we had one fail on us about ten years ago we ALWAYS fit a new one and now proper quality kits such as genuine and some aftermarket also contain the stud, when they don't we stock them and change them anyway.