Complete timing component overhaul price breakdown

B6/7 S4/RS4
#1

Lately I’ve been researching all of the timing components I’d need to replace when the time comes. Probably going to pull my motor again in a few months and take a peek at everything then go from there.

I took the list of parts Joey posted over on Euroaddiction and made it into a spread sheet. I tried to find as many of the updated part numbers I could and priced everything out accordingly via GenuineAudiParts.com

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Don’t forget the price of renting the timing tools is 150. Plus factor in misc items like coolant, PS fluid, AC recharge, etc.

Everything comes in at ~$3800. I’m wondering if I can cut down the price even a tiny bit more if I speak to someone directly at GAP.

If anything here looks incorrect/missing let me know and I’ll update the spreadsheet.

#2

I could ask my parts guy to double check that for you? He gives me 20% off everything I believe.

#3

looks like a sold list. There is a few more things you can add. Even if you wanted to save a few dollars I think the list you have is just about what your going to want to do if you have all that stuff out.

#4

Nice list - can you tell me at what mileage you are considering this service?
I am trying to get a better idea of what people are doing and when.
thanks very much!

#5

If you have money to burn, do it at around 85k. A lot of the sporadic failures are between 80-100k

I’m starting to think this should be normal planned maintenance around those miles. We used to think severe rattle and adjuster codes were a fair warning, but now there are a lot of cars that are just going kaboom out of nowhere

#6

Overall I don’t think parts will get much cheaper than this. The cam adjusters/ control housings are already a few hundred off msrp, the other parts aren’t too bad. I’m at 72k miles now but I don’t have any real rattling concerns. This is basically my last resort into solving the timing problems I’m having with my car (aside from a whole new motor). I’m thinking about pulling the motor at the end of may or so. I figured I could take a peek at the guides/ adjusters and go from there. However, I’d hate to have to throw over 4k into this car and have it get me no where.

#7

Time to sell as mint and get a GT3

#8

Thats been my thinking for the past 6 months!

#9

I know the feeling I the guides and stuff. And still had a rocker arm/ lifter/ ext cam issue

#10

x3

What were you symptoms with the rocker arms/cams?

Might just look for a low mile motor from an 06+ car. All said and done it’ll cost about the same anyway

#11

I’ve been avoiding this topic like the plague. Living in denial really that I hopefully won’t have to deal with it for a long time. At 75K though, it’ll probably become reality sooner that later.

Who wants an all expense paid trip to San Diego to help me pull the motor and get this done when I need it? ;D

#12

Oh and then there’s this lovely story.

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/475421-Emissions-testing-facility-broke-my-car

#13

I’m just gonna go till the motor goes boom. At that point it’s either swap another used motor in and drive for a year then sell, or just go built motor is JHM ever gets it together.

To me $8k to do a ‘maybe’ isn’t really worth it, especially when you’re just replacing stock parts. Who knows how long you’ll really keep the car and if you get your money out of the ‘maybe’. It’d suck to spend $8k, then decide to sell the car, or wreck the car in less than a year. Plus one thing I’d be interested in, some insurance companies will cover catastrophic failure. If it does, I bet you’d pan out better that way than if you sold it in perfect working order.

#14

I have noticed some people replacing timing compenents, but not all… IE. just the tensioners and guides… any benefit in keeping costs down and only replacing those items??

#15

If you are in that deep (having pulled the motor), I would think that cutting corners might (would?) be counterproductive.

#16

yes, but spending $2500 vs. $4500 is a pretty big deal to some people… I am un opinionated on this, because I only put around 8,000 miles a year on my car and I am only at 48,000 miles…

#17

You could skip replacing the adjusters…but half the time it’s the adjusters that give you headaches and they have been know to out of no-where completely let go and ruin a motor.

lmeqh on here is a good example. One of his adjusters shit the bed this week.

#18

I’ll just upgrade to an RS4 when I near 90,000 miles in my S4… I won’t be able to justify $6,000 replacement on a 10 year old car. (will be 10 years old when I even get close to 85,000 miles)

#19

Are there any symptoms of the adjusters or other components going bad besides codes or rattling? I’m wondering if one of my tensioners/ adjusters is on its way out but not throwing a code quite yet.

#20

The day before my MIL came on, I was driving and accelerating. All of a sudden I felt the power kinda drop off. Initially I was thinking my clutch had started to slip but I did a quick test in 6th and all was fine with that.

I stopped and started to give a little more than 50% throttle and felt the car accelerate normal through first, then in second at about 2500 rpms it kinda cut the power and jerked the car a couple of times depending on throttle position. If I stayed light (<30%) throttle it seemed fine. Anything more than that and it wasn’t having it.