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2003 1.8t Problems!!!
Ok,
my sisters friend has a '03 1.8T 5 speed. The car has only 66000 miles and is never driven hard or harrassed. All of a sudden it has a seriously loud top engine knocking,the oil light is on,and a check engine light. I scanned the check engine light and the code was 0011 which by my book interprets as something like " A Camshaft advance Adjustment" or sumpthin. The car is knocking like a son of a *$#!@ so i take it to my work. Run a little tranny fluid with some detergant based engine flush chemical for bout ten minutes to try and free up what i am pretty sure is a seized valve cause you get a lot of blowby when the oil cap is off. Then changed the oil and filter cause it was due. I stepped up the weight to 10W40 Maxlife and used a quart of lucas oil stabalizer in a desperate attempt to fix this. So it doesnt work, i am driving home and 5 blocks from my house the thing starts smoking like a chimney,so i bring her to a coast in front of my house and kill the engine running every stop sign i could. And there it sits! i Usually use 5w30 Synthetic Blend and i am very regular with the intervals but there still seems to be an awful lot of sludge in the top of the engine than there should be. Either way,i am a novice mechanic so if there is something i can do please help me out,otherwise in bout 1 or 2 days he is gonna get it towed to the dealership where they will unmercefully screw him out of a lot of money.
Thanks Guys
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