The car is a 2001 VW Golf MK4 with a 1.4 gasoline engine and a 5 speed manual transmission. It uses a lot of oil and the engine knocks and pings. It recently has started leaking water from the right side of the engine. About 13 months ago I had a new water pump, new thermostat, and a new timing kit installed. The water leak started about a week ago and has progressively gotten worse. I don’t know if it needs a whole rebuild, it might just need a ring job or something like that. Currently has 145000 km on it. But don’t know if that applies to the engine. When had that work done 13 months ago I was told by the mechanic that it wasn’t the original engine that came with the car.
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Thank you for bringing your question to us. If it's knocking and burning oil, I wouldn't recommend a rebuild unless you do it yourself. Most shops today no longer rebuild their own engines and there really isn't any point in shopping around to find one. I would go ahead and get a long block, which just means that it comes with the heads as well. The reason for that is that at least some of your symptoms sound like a head gasket leak, which can result in warped heads. You can have the heads tested, but that adds another expense that will probably just wind up in the heads being replaced anyway. It's better to get them all together and have one, single, (expensive) repair than to have to keep tearing it down to fix the next problem.
Just out of curiosity, what color is the smoke?
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