ben_pcc
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Hi there! Been lurking a while, and happy/sad to post about an issue I'm having.
The car is a 04 Golf, BEW engine, been driving/fixing it for almost a year. Poor thing had fallen into neglect, sat on a farm unused for a year. By far, the hardest repair I've done on it was cleaning all the mouse piss out of the AC ducts.
Anyway. It has just over 208 k miles on it, and the timing belt was changed at 120 k. I made a mistake: I thought the changing interval was 100 k, but looks like it's 80 k for the BEW engine.
So a couple weeks ago I'm driving home, an it felt rumbly when stopped. Putting it in park at stoplights alleviated that a bit. About a mile later it rumbles at 30 MPH, and is starting to sound slightly bad in park as well. I'm near home and decide to continue, not in denial that something is wrong.
Just two blocks from home it starts to sound awful, not suddenly but not gradually, kind of a knocking sound. The car is shaking, not severely, but noticeably. I park it immediately and turn it off.
Oil and engine lights are off. I checked the oil and its fine. I started it today (dumb?) because I had to move it, it makes something in between the characteristic diesel Arr Arr Arr (but much louder) and more of a knocking noise.
The question at last: how likely is it that changing the timing belt will fix this? Don't get me wrong, the timing belt needs changing, what I'm worried about is the possibility of it being something else.
Thanks!
The car is a 04 Golf, BEW engine, been driving/fixing it for almost a year. Poor thing had fallen into neglect, sat on a farm unused for a year. By far, the hardest repair I've done on it was cleaning all the mouse piss out of the AC ducts.
Anyway. It has just over 208 k miles on it, and the timing belt was changed at 120 k. I made a mistake: I thought the changing interval was 100 k, but looks like it's 80 k for the BEW engine.
So a couple weeks ago I'm driving home, an it felt rumbly when stopped. Putting it in park at stoplights alleviated that a bit. About a mile later it rumbles at 30 MPH, and is starting to sound slightly bad in park as well. I'm near home and decide to continue, not in denial that something is wrong.
Just two blocks from home it starts to sound awful, not suddenly but not gradually, kind of a knocking sound. The car is shaking, not severely, but noticeably. I park it immediately and turn it off.
Oil and engine lights are off. I checked the oil and its fine. I started it today (dumb?) because I had to move it, it makes something in between the characteristic diesel Arr Arr Arr (but much louder) and more of a knocking noise.
The question at last: how likely is it that changing the timing belt will fix this? Don't get me wrong, the timing belt needs changing, what I'm worried about is the possibility of it being something else.
Thanks!