Hi All,

I need some assistance from my VW brothers. I have a 2001 GLX and up until this past weekend, it was in great shape. Had it for 10 years and it has 175K miles on it.

This past weekend, I was on the highway and I heard a loud compression sound. On the dash, several warning lights lit up, and I received the STOP sign on my dash. So I pulled over, and checked the vitals and all looked fine. Took the car to the shop, and they looked at it and this is what they found:

2 cylinders had lost compression, the others had low compression.

Root cause - They believe the timing chain skipped.

Now I never heard this before, but they quoted me 7100.00 US to fix it. Well I told them I'm coming to get my car. But here is my question, can a timing chain skip, and if it does, can it cause your cylinders to lose compression?

Oh, and they say it's possible that I "might" have a bad piston.

Thanks for any help you guys can lend.

 

timing chain can skip and it will mess up your timing and cause misfires also it can cause your pistons to hit your valves.
In my opinion i would get a second opinion from another mechanic before anything