nokivasara
Veteran Member
The 1.4 TSI we got over here on the mkV's was terrible, I don't know if the new ones are better but they have a belt now. The chains were nothing but trouble, the tensioners were bad, the chains streched etc etc and VW never admitted there were anything wrongThe 1.4 has been out in Europe for a while now. I believe VW went back to a belt on the 1.4. When reading about its features, it does seem complicated. Hopefully it lasts!
I've contacted a few tuning companies to see when tunes will be released. It looks like Revo has one ready to go, unitronic is working on one, and APR might be working on one. We'll see what happens.
But it is a nice engine, pretty strong, very quiet and good on fuel.
We were about to get a TSI before we bought our mkV TDI but the frequent cam chain issues put us off.