Wastegate Actuator Rod Rattle

Just got a call from vw today saying they have a fix.

Wastegate actuator rod rattle.

Called the dealer and set up an appt. So i adjusted it back. The rattle is caused by the wastegate actuator rod rubbing back and forth on the wastegate and can be quite annoying. Wastegate actuator rod rattle solved 06 24 2011 03 29 pm 74.

Apparently it is the clip they will be installing. After 1 year this is finally going to be fixed and no more rattle for us all. I adjusted it counting the of turns and got the slack out. I had a small rattle at about 2000 rpm and traced it to the turbo actuator rod.

Boost pressure is applied to the canister and once the boost is higher than the spring pressure inside the canister the wastegate actuator rod starts to move and open the wastegate. This caused the turbo to not have much boost. Unfortunately this is just a manufacturing fault. This rattle can occur on start up while idle or while accelerating from 1800 3000rpms.

The actuator is a boost actuated diaphragm inside a canister with a rod sticking out as shown below. Now as the tsb above states vw only covers 2008 2010 mk6 gtis.