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I'm very willing to help anyone considering an AAT/AEL rebuild. I will freely give the benefit of my experience and contacts list. Just call me on the above number or via this site.

Phil Barber
hi I'm very interested in timing on these engines, we have an aat and an ael, the aat runs very well, timing since the belt changes according to vagcom is dead on!, it does splutter and tick over a little rough sometimes, but the ael is the main concern, again belt's changed toothed crank sprocket and bolt and tensioner changed we can get it to start and run, when u set the timing on vagcom to ael 1000rpm it wont re start unless pump timing is moved, set it to ael 1200rpm and it will start but smoke.
what timing marks are you using? i have checked the marks on the ael 3 times, the cam is locked in place the bottom pulley appears to have a mark to line up with the lower timing cover, and there is a mark on the flywheel which lines up with the hole on the gearbox.
can you tell me where I've gone wrong?
we are in Dudley west mids.