Refurbished engines?

[gkatsi]

While browsing the net i found various topics, where people are talking about refurbished vw parts. The outcome of this bits of information scattered in forums, is tha parts ending with X are refurbished, not new. In a greek forum someone said that engines in new cars are also refurbished, linking the polo gti oil consumption problem with refurbished parts. Personally i believe its another internet urban legend. Does someone in this forum have suffucient information about the X in parts numbers?

[RW1]

A part number with an X appended usually means its an exchange item. ie. the old part has to be returned into the VW system by the dealer. It may or may not be sent back to the original supplier for refurbishment. It usually attracts a surcharge payment which the customer pays. This is refunded on return of the old used part.

The only time I have seen a refurshed part is when it is bought as a spare. New build will receive new engines with new parts.

C.

[gkatsi]

Thank you for the reply, It seems that a lot of owners here in greece of cars fitted with 1,4 tsi engines (CAVE 180bhp) are facing the same problem. Big oil consumption. Just below 1l / 1000Km. Dealers refuse to accept that the engine is burning oil. Some dealees blame the valve springs to be "softer" due to a bad batch. In most case changing the spring reduces the consumption but does not fix the problem. Few managed to get a new engine marked with X in the end. Now the think is refurbished.

On the other hand the scirocco 1.4 tsi engines used hard, with remaps, air intakes so far are not producing any problems! No oil consumption at all. Even after hard track use the oil consumption is light.

So far we ve seen two engine failures in greek scrirocco club. The first is a broken turbo, my car, no remap, bad lack I guess, and the second one is a revo remap issue with misfires near the rev limiter. That problem was related to soft valve springs. (I do not consider n75 control valve, coil packs and spark plugs an engine issue). No one has yet reported a broken bore piston issue related to 24s4 recall campaign (well one did, but I am not quite sure he was not trolling the net).



So I wonder what’s the difference (beside the bhp) between, CAVD 1.4 tsi scirocco engine and CAVE 1.4 tsi polo gti engine, that’s giving the extra hp and the owners an oil consumption headache.