Another Blauparts Timing belt roller bearing failure

[rollerton]

Sold my old 01' S4 Avant to a friend a little over 3 years ago, I did the timing belt just before selling it. He made it just about 20k miles, trouble free.
Just heading out of his driveway the other day and the engine stalled. "Weird" he says..tries to fire it back up..he says no noise, no warning of any kind. He was coasting at maybe 15mph, engines just dies.
No compression when tried to start.
Bought the kit from Blauparts- nothing against them, but this is SHITTY. The car has 160k on it I think and it's an auto so this basically makes it worthless. And he loved the car.
Belt and everything else looks perfect, tension is still perfect. This is the picture he sent me..I looked at it yesterday, but didn't have to apart far enough to see all of it.

[PSU S4]

Thats no fun. I had one fail from them 6k in.

[Mark00s4]

That sucks,is this a common occurrence. ? I have used them everytime i do a timing belt awesome company to deal with. I've had 3 s4 and probably change the tb about 5 or so times 0 problems. I'm actually about to bring my current s to stage 3 specs and have a tb kit from blausport waiting to go in.

[zillarob]

You see that boss directly below the roller?
Take a good look there and at the roller for contact between the two.
I have seen the hyd tensioners go and make contact there. This extra bs may be what took it out.
May just be the bearing that went, but just 2x check you are treating the problem and not the symptom.

[killerkali]

I just recently had an NTN tensioner roller fail nearly blow my motor. Im going to make a post about it soon

[mustmax]

I had a kit from ECS fail. Took out a bunch of valves. Genuine Audi timing parts from now on for me.


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[rollerton]

Yeah. I know there are no guarantees and statistically there has some be "some" failure of a mechanical part, so somebody has to be the unlucky one. But I don't know if I have ever heard of dealer purchased timing belt parts failing so early. I always assumed they were probably more or less the same manufacturer.
But this is definitely higher failure rate AND sooner than we should see for such a critical part.
Worst part is it makes the car garbage; a stock tip silver S4 Avant with high miles.. hard to justify even swapping in a used engine much less 30-40 hours on pulling the engine, turbos, heads, etc.. all while avoiding all the junk it probably needed (seals, hoses, turbos) before it broke.

I try and stay current...but ...this car is basically worthless...right?

[xhackerekx]

timing ecs kit for my previous b5 1.8t failure and cost me new head also ecs timing for my b5 s4 almost failure made crazy sound on idle so I check and find this:

now I use whole timing kit from blauparts and my 4 audis happy :)

[zillarob]

If I was a forensic audiologist, I would think that one was damaged from bolting it down on top of the relay rocker.
Hard to say though, shit happens

[Strat321]

If I was a forensic audiologist, I would think that one was damaged from bolting it down on top of the relay rocker.
Hard to say though, shit happens

Haha love it I almost agree as I've never even heard of such an issue unless pulleys and tensioner weren't replaced.


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[estoniancartel]

I try and stay current...but ...this car is basically worthless...right?

Could be a candidate for a 6 speed swap if the body is in good condition. People are always after avant shells, possibly even tip.