Cam Follower Awareness hasn't gone far enough

[daz05]

True im not sayings it's the only factor, two cars driven, one at higher rpm than the other in the exact same conditions over 20k you would expect the car working harder to have more wear.

[gizm0]

Checked/ changed mine today... 08 ED30 on 49k...



No wear showing what so ever, still. Pleased I checked and changed it just for a piece of mind :)

[wigit]

got Alex at AKS to put a new one on the Pirelli today which has done 67k, old one had minimal wear

[alexmccabe]

Dropped it off at the garage today. I needed it done before Monday as I have a long drive, and over the weekend I am too busy. I had to show them where it is located, and tell them what tools they will need. Will my car explode when I get it back?

[olufsen]

Checked/ changed mine today... 08 ED30 on 49k...



No wear showing what so ever, still. Pleased I checked and changed it just for a piece of mind :)

Are you standard?

[GNJ_Motorsport]

Dropped it off at the garage today. I needed it done before Monday as I have a long drive, and over the weekend I am too busy. I had to show them where it is located, and tell them what tools they will need. Will my car explode when I get it back?

I would get a new garage!

If anyone is in the North West and would like the cam follower changing we will supply and fit for £55 inc VAT. We did Numecs yesterday and his wasn't too bad for a car almost at 100k miles.

[olufsen]

Hardly worth doing it yourself at that price!!

[Simon_2.0t]

Dropped it off at the garage today. I needed it done before Monday as I have a long drive, and over the weekend I am too busy. I had to show them where it is located, and tell them what tools they will need. Will my car explode when I get it back?

Sure they will sort it mate.

Ask to see what the old one was like, sure is fine. Like everyone has said, just a peace of mind job.

DV next on my list.

[john87]

Just ordered the O-Ring (9 quid plus VAT  ) plus the follower (28.50 all in), stage 1 2008 GTI on 50k.. not expecting to see much wear but will be interesting exercise all the same 

Funny, the parts guy mentioned that they've never had any orders for those parts before...

[gizm0]

Got mine and the other ring for £30 Inc vat :) my parts guy also said they hadn't had one ordered before :/

[calvR]

Dropped my mates ed30 in to vw for its service last week, requested that they change the cam follower whilst its in.
Many scratched heads later they confirmed that there were 16 of them and its a huge job to change them so it would need to stay with them for a while 
Realising they had no clue we just gave them the part number to order, they said its not called a cam follower and they'd never changed 1. Low and behold the part arrives with cam follower printed on the ticket.

[Meallbhan]

vw call it a tappet.

[Kalpsn2000]

vw call it a tappet.

Lol. Reminds me of when I went to order the DV, the guy said there is nothing with that name, they call it the cutoff valve.

[jimk04]

Mine on 260hp GTi AXX at 98k miles. Was stock for about 75- 80k, Stage 1 for the rest.

Lots of the black coating gone and also starting to pit on the surface.

Cam lobe seemed ok.

[camfollower]

^^^ Good call to change m8   It was certainly getting there.