Received 163 Likes on 144 Posts. My take is that your chain tensioner (s) is/are bad because the tensioner works off the oil pressure. If there is an oil leak in the tensioner (where it can activate it), it will make the chain effectively "longer" and the camshaft (s) out of time. That will make a lot of noise and affect the engine performance.
2008 Q7 will not start sometimes. When the car runs it does really well but on occasion it will not start, it will turn over but will not fire. After several attempts it may or may not start. It may also go for a week or two and do fine and then all of a sudden it will not start. I have installed a new crank position sensor and a new battery
after i finished doing a major job on this audi , all of a sudden there was no crank no start problem, i looked for relays in my car and found that the ones
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