Timing Belt or Chain. Help me out here please?

[Paul.B]

I'm looking at a couple of Passat CC on 2008 & 2009 plates. One is the 1.8 turbo petrol and the other is a 2.0 turbo petrol. The question is are there Cam Belts or Cam Chains on these?

Cheers

[silentbrown]

Wikipedia may be wrong, but I think those will both have EA888 engines, which have a timing chain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_CC

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Edited by silentbrown on Friday 19th December 10:26

[Paul.B]

Thanks for the links. I think from reading the second link, FSI engines have a Belt and the later TSI have a Chain. The change over would appear to be in 2008!! The link shows some differences with Dipstick and Oil Filter positions so it should be obvious which is which. The engine codes should help too.

Thanks again.

[160]

the VAG group use tsi and tfsi for the same engines depending on the day. Date isnt always a sure thing as the more powerful cars have the older engine (s3, golf r)

[ManOpener]

The 1.8 will be chain-cam only. AFAIK, the CC never came with the belt-cam EA113 engine so the 2.0 will be chain too.

[Paul.B]

Yep - I looked at the 2-litre car today. It is a TSI lump not he FSI so has the chain. The links above list the earlier engine as being fitted to the Passat CC, the change over came some time in 2008.
Thanks for every ones help.