It was time - again...

[fukinavit]

advanced automotion have cam tensioner kits at the mo, not sure if this is a good price or not, this is per cylinder head.
http://advancedautomotion.com/shop/p...roducts_id/174
mine has 130km on it and sounds fine, so i must just do the pads anyway. ill be pulling the engine of my new one in January so its interesting to see others shopping lists.
the downpipes are definatley being done, those look great Bigglezworth, any details on the brand and how much?

also a slightly beefed up torque converter, they have a few options on these, mainly stall speed.
http://advancedautomotion.com/shop/p...roducts_id/780

[CBeau]

advanced automotion have cam tensioner kits at the mo, not sure if this is a good price or not, this is per cylinder head.
http://advancedautomotion.com/shop/p...roducts_id/174
mine has 130km on it and sounds fine, so i must just do the pads anyway. ill be pulling the engine of my new one in January so its interesting to see others shopping lists.
the downpipes are definatley being done, those look great Bigglezworth, any details on the brand and how much?

also a slightly beefed up torque converter, they have a few options on these, mainly stall speed.
http://advancedautomotion.com/shop/p...roducts_id/780

Wow!! That $400 per kit incl. tensioner unit is nothing what I recall seeing for Audi parts elsewhere. I thought they were like $1k++ each. Maybe I'm totally recalling wrong. But somebody on here wrote about putting new Audi tensioners on and it was some huge ##... I'm sure of it.

[lswing]

Wow!! That $400 per kit incl. tensioner unit is nothing what I recall seeing for Audi parts elsewhere. I thought they were like $1k++ each. Maybe I'm totally recalling wrong. But somebody on here wrote about putting new Audi tensioners on and it was some huge ##... I'm sure of it.

That's not OEM, China stuff, good luck. OEM is around $750-800 each. I went with the complete OEM kit just to be sure since labor is pain.

At the same time, over 5 years on here and I've never heard of someone's cam tensioners failing, maybe one case of the solenoid actually, usually it's just the pads about every 70-120k.

[GreggPDX]

I used the Blauparts kit to change the pads on mine. At 78K miles, my stock pads had only slight grooving, they probably could have gone another 78K with no big issues. That said, if the engine is out, it's reasonably cheap insurance to replace the pads, and you should definitely at least pull the valve covers to inspect the upper pads.

I would guess that oil maintenance is critical to pad longevity. These are metal-on-plastic with splash lubrication, I expect they are not very tolerant of old, dirty oil.

[fukinavit]

That's not OEM, China stuff, good luck. OEM is around $750-800 each. I went with the complete OEM kit just to be sure since labor is pain.

At the same time, over 5 years on here and I've never heard of someone's cam tensioners failing, maybe one case of the solenoid actually, usually it's just the pads about every 70-120k.

apparently its an OE supplier, no audi logo, but they are all made in china now.