Wastegate Actuator Rod Rattle

Called the dealer and set up an appt.

Wastegate actuator rod rattle.

I have the 2010 jetta wolfsburg. The bulletin 21 10 01. Just got a call from vw today saying they have a fix. Apparently it is the clip they will be installing.

Unfortunately this is just a manufacturing fault. I adjusted it counting the of turns and got the slack out. Now as the tsb above states vw only covers 2008 2010 mk6 gtis. The rattle is caused by the wastegate actuator rod rubbing back and forth on the wastegate and can be quite annoying.

After 1 year this is finally going to be fixed and no more rattle for us all. 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. Hi i am wondering if anyone here has knowlege on the wastegate actuator rod.

The actuator is a boost actuated diaphragm inside a canister with a rod sticking out as shown below. This rattle can occur on start up while idle or while accelerating from 1800 3000rpms.