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Your engine light was probably a floating code for ignition/cam/crank timing being out a small amount which is a moderate warning sign you've got a worn timing chain, tensioner and or guides.
Beware on VW and other brands, unless you have a proper code reader than can interrogate the modules properly, generic (even expensive £4k+ machines) will not pick up the detail codes, so floating codes that don't have a high tier priority (and are stored) won't even flag up, even if they are looking for them. If you buy another VAG product, buy VAG-COM or OBDeleven, few hundred quid that pays for itself the first time you've had to avoid going to a main dealer for a code look-up.