Originally Posted by madRiver
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Originally Posted by madRiver
Not sure your outdated now 2014 you tube video is relevant to this vehicle with a different manifold.
BTW, here's his newer 2017 video covering the updates made to the intake, and yet it obviously still fails, or of course I wouldn't have had a reason to create this thread.
Unfortunately you took an outdated video and made a conclusion that all the revised parts are your words "garbage" based off a single failure of a revised part. You can emotionally feel that way however on the basis of statistics no conclusion can be drawn about a part failure that is potentially in its mean failure rate. ALL PARTS fail on vehicles however the failure rate in unknown at this point in time however will soon be known if VW is in an acceptable range.
There was no conclusion, this thread was a query, look at the title. The video and the information I presented, that I noted, was just from a quick Google, as well as the anecdote presented by the dealer, which alarmed my friend.
There
apparently is a history of failure on this engine, as others have noted. Does the current version have the same record of failure as its predecessors? Perhaps not, but it isn't confidence inspiring that there have been issues with these over multiple generations. And you'll kindly note the
question mark after the word "garbage" in the title of the thread. I don't wrench on VW's, and the purpose of the thread was to present the video, which detailed some of the history, the scenario that played out with my associate, to provide some context, and get some feedback from folks on here.
You'll also note that it wasn't even mentioned that her 2018 would be the 3rd gen version of this engine until JOD's post only a few above this one:
Originally Posted by JOD
The Gen 3 EA888 is not plagued with the intake manifold issues of the Gen 1 and 2, so the part has been redesigned. Most of the information above is relative to the Gen 1/2 version. The 3rd generation, despite the name, is quite different. The cylinder head is totally different, as is the IM.
Which is
useful information. However, I do find it worrisome that the dealer appears to contradict JOD that it isn't common on the 3rd gens
Do you have anything of value to add to this thread like JOD has done or are we going to continue down this road of mis-framing the thread and my intentions? I'm well aware that there is a failure rate for every component, that's not a revelation. I don't own a VW, so I'm not emotionally invested. I am simply looking for feedback on the issue of intake manifold replacement on this engine. So far JOD has been extremely helpful, if you have information that can complement his, that's what I'm looking for.