Two different opinions received as follows:
1st opinion: There was no oil circulating your engine due to the failure of the oil pump. Most likely the knocking noise you heard was the engine's parts rubbing against each other without any.. The cylinder head, camshaft cylinder head and the sump should be Ok. The engine will now not start as no oil feeding engine starved engine while driving with no oil pressure.
Damage done to the bottom block of engine.2nd opinion: Significant damage Has been caused to the cam shaft cylinder head, with additional cam-shaft chain and tensioner damage.
Top part of engine needs replacing altogether.Now from my understanding it could be the cam shaft and the bottom block that have packed up which means the oil pump rods are damaged and/or the oil pick up is clogged up with sutt oil. It could also mean the top end has been caused some significant damage. We won’t jnow for sure what the extent of the damage is until the guys open the engine which is at the garage now for inspection. Will keep you all informed on the feedback
It would seem that the fsi engine on the VW and Audi are same which is disaster oil pressure system in my opinion. The 1.8T conversion is more efficient.
VW will promise you 200bhp but that power is not there to last forever. They are not designed that way at all. Because you’ll soon realise the power of a GTI can only take so much and something will have to give sooner or later which is the problem I have encountered here.