I'm in the same situation as you, my son drove my car albeit a quarter of a mile with the red oil light on. His lesson my pocket. Mine is an edition 30 and only had it 5 months. To say I'm gutted would be an understatement. I'm going to strip it and see if it can be saved.
I’m very sorry to hear this. After 80,000 miles these TFSI do start giving these troubles unfortunately 😬.. I had my car just over a year!
I drove 60miles it’s oil pressure warning. The damage was done following day when putting foot down! I have learnt never to underestimate a Oil Pressure warning!
It is a stressful situation indeed. Does you engine sound like a diesel?
Bit of a generalisation there about the longevity of the engines.
I have the same engine in my Passat estate, currently on 129k, as it has been said before an engine lasts well if it has been looked after properly.
My service book is on it's last free space, I had the sump removed earlier this year and pick up pipe changed.
Later I asked about a re-map and I was advised that the timing chain was getting noisy so that got done with everything that was needed. (Including an extra oil change a week later).
Only then did I get the APR re-map done and it is running as sweet as ever, uses about half a ltr of oil in about 2k miles.
