We have a Seat Altea XL Fourtrack as a family car and love it. It has Quattro chassis, 170hp 2L PD diesel tows mint and returns 40mpg. It also very quick, on fast A road, when driven properly... Anyway, talking to a taxi driver recently, he has given me the 'heaby jeaby's' about potential oil pump drive failure.... Its an 09 plate, with127K on it. Its an A1 motor, no issues. What he is discussing is an oil pump with a hex drive engaging with a pressed steel splined female driven off the balancer shaft. I want to take action before a failure occurs. My plan is to pull the sump, for a 'looksee'. From what mr taxi said its a 11K pounds job to do a drive in, proper fix, drive out. I want to learn stuff and do a diy fix. What do you guys know? I'm thinking a weld in situ would be a possibility, but am worried why VW had a sliding arrangement in the oil pump drive ??? Jon
You can thank Mr Audi for that as that's the 2l Audi motor VW and Skoda had the sense to use the same design/block as the old 1.9TDi so don't have this problem that's progress for you !!!!
I think your taxi driver friend is misinformed, The altea doesn't have the longitudinal engine so shouldn't have that oil pump drive issue. https://www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk/Blog/ppd-engines-common-problems-piezo-pumpe-dse/ See here for CEG engine code oil pump picture ( i think thats the 170hp unit in your altea) http://www.oemepc.com/seat/part_sin...115/subcategory/115040/part_id/1397293/lang/e It's probably worth pulling the sump and cleaning/replacing the oil pickup anyway though.
Thanks. Good news then. Been to the dealers, who were quite helpful. Went to buy the sump gasket, but it doesn't have one.. Think the engine code is BMN, arrangement as below; Will pull the sump, as a good clean out is always money in the bank. Not difficult either. Thanks again Jon
