I can try to dig it up, but I recall there being a way to inspect which tensioner is installed. You don’t have to remove the timing cover or anything to see if it’s the new or old design.
Ah, here it is: https://humblemechanic.com/check-2-0t-tsi-timing-chain-tensioner/

They won’t proactively replace the tensioner. You have to let it fail, hope you’re still in the extended warranty period, pay the multiple thousands out of pocket and cross your fingers for reimbursement. The gf has a ‘11 Tiguan. I replaced it proactively so it wouldn’t destroy the head / entire block.... No…

Having 4 slightly different variants of this engine in my household in the past (Tiguan, B8 A4, Q3, B8.5 A4), it’s not THAT hard to fix this issue so a lot of them were also repaired at independent shops or DIY. It’s completely plausible that it could have been done not at a dealer, thus no records.

I did! But they had no record, so I assumed it’s not done, though it’s possible it was done by a non-dealer and reimbursed. That’s why I’m planning on just doing the repair.

Imagine if the industry had spent the last decade developing a modern sales model that didn’t require hours of in-person up-selling and paperwork, instead of lobbying for legislation that required it. 

He promised he’d sell it, but he’s also trying to social distance. The price keeps people six feet or further away.

“Its all Rolls Royce”, Joe Isuzu

Oh okay you just don’t know how Kinja works. That’s fine.

Gotta be some kind of art thing. I have nothing else to add, so here’s a different art thing:

If the idea that “I don’t need to worry for X reason,” has crossed your mind in any real way, then you are either insanely ignorant, or a level of selfish and solipsistic I have trouble processing.

How many people in our country have preexisting conditions, are smokers, and/or are obese?

I’ll be surprised if self-driving cars aren’t the norm by about 2050. But I also don’t expect them to exist any sooner than 2040. 

We will spend 100 trillion dollars on nonfunctional autonomous cars before we ever build out more normal, non-autonomous trains. Suggesting we build trains is up there with suggesting we possibly maybe end our War With Eurasia or such.

Automated rail systems. That’s something I’ve heard nothing about that makes complete sense. The complexity and safety concerns would considerably less and easier to manage and it has a minimal human staff as it is today.  It’s not like a train needs to be able to react/stop on a dime - it couldn’t if it wanted to.

Dedicated roadways for containers of freight and other goods effectively ARE railroads. All you’re doing is putting a locomotive on each container instead of stringing them together.

“Rail is really the first system that should be able to go fully autonomous.”

Rail is really the first system that should be able to go fully autonomous.

This is pretty much what I’ve said from the start.  If you can’t protect for every situation in an environment, you have to control the environment instead.  Ports have been largely autonomous for years, but that’s because there’s a big fence around where the AVs operate, and if anyone opens the gate to that fence the…

1) A train has to service itself all the infrastructure from point A to point B. A plane just has to service itself and two airports. 2) The train experience (in the US) is so miserable that demand is much lower. Empty trains charge more for tickets.