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    That’s good to know. As far as I can tell, my engine sounds sweet as a nut. Never heard any rattle.
     
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    Before changing them I took a visit to audi and they told me that the sound will come back since they changed a lot of them. The only plausible fix is to change all the distribution. I bought my car at 135k kilometres and now it has 250k+. Nothing happened till now but my heart stops almost all the time when I start the engine. The most important thing is to leave the engine running for a few seconds after you start it so you don’t force the whole distribution with the chain tensioner not tensioned.


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    I would have the bonnet up when the engine is genuinely cold and get someone to start it, if theres the faintest hint of a rattle beware the chain tensioners are on their way, if it sort of starts with a little hesitation then runs sweet its got impending injector problems.
    Test drive it and when its at proper temperature (at least 5 miles, more is better) pull over leave engine idling and stare at the exhaust pipes for at least 10 minutes any smoke/steam at all means the injectors are on the way out.

    Wifes old A4 3.0tdi 2004 started to get rattly chains AND smoke at idle when hot, so it got chopped, great car but spending more on a car than its worth is just madness.
     
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    There are two TSB’s regarding this problem. One for the injectors and one for the chain tensioners. I changed the injectors too so the only solution is to change all the distribution but I don’t find plausible reason to change it.


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