Timing belt and cam follower are the EA113 service items buyers check first

Unlike the chain-driven Mk7, the US Mk6 R's EA113 uses a timing belt, and knowledgeable bidders ask for belt and camshaft-follower invoices on nearly every listing in this corpus. Community guidance is that tensioners tend to fail before the belt itself, so belt, tensioner, rollers, and water pump get serviced together, typically around the 100k interval or earlier on age. …