"EA888" covers three generations of VW's 1.8/2.0 turbo four, and they are meaningfully different engines with different weak points. When someone quotes an EA888 fault, the first question is always which generation — because the fix and the risk change with it.
Gen 1 (roughly 2008–2011, e.g. some Mk6-era 2.0T). The early EA888
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