it never rains but it pours. I need a new clutch.

[Col]

It's got a nice stereo system though, hey Col

Yes !

The sound system would cost more than 50% of the car if I had to replace it, which is more than the poxy clutch, so I should by rights shut up !

I suppose it is all about priorities. Mine was a sound system...... which to be honest is a bit silly but it was transferred from my old Golf 4 GT-TDI and when I got it (about 4 years ago), DMF's were the last thing on my mind

[Eshrules]

I have to admit, I wanted a solid for mine (it's pretty much due now, no slippage, thankfully).

After driving my brothers tolly, which has had a single mass fitted, I definitley noticed the judder, which the DMF obviously eliminates, but it wasn't so prominent that it detracted from the driving experience.

If I could source one for the golf, I'd have one fitted without hesitation.

[Col]

I have to admit, I wanted a solid for mine (it's pretty much due now, no slippage, thankfully).

After driving my brothers tolly, which has had a single mass fitted, I definitley noticed the judder, which the DMF obviously eliminates, but it wasn't so prominent that it detracted from the driving experience.

If I could source one for the golf, I'd have one fitted without hesitation.

They are readily available for the Golf but not sure about 6 speeds.

[Clinterous]

Even if you could afford the maintenance, spending £1k to repair or maintain a £3k car is just really ....

Well, there are some individuals who would take that view and as a consequence, probably end up racking a huge debt just to have a newer shinier car.

So I personally would spend the £1k and make do with the car until it dies. What's to say that the new car that someone hypothetically bought for £10k needs a new clutch and DMF after six months - spent £11k when £1k would have been sufficient!

A car should be for life, not just until it takes someones fancy to change it to keep up with the Jones'. Hence why the UK is debt ridden, and economy virtually bankrupt.

Ahem, rant over.

[Col]

Who ever mentioned chopping the car in for a new one in lieu of fitting a DMF. I will eventually end up changing the damned thing, I am not happy about it though.

Personally I maintain my car regardless and am of the school of making do and mending. I have the option of a company car but choose instead to run my old banger of a 2002 Passat and pocket the car allowance.

What disappoints me is the fact that such a part is that expensive and so unreliable at the same time.

There does come a time though where you have to apply the law of dimishing returns on something like a car. A good example would be spending £1,000 on a car worth £3,000 then driving one mile up the road, getting rear ended and written off.

The insurance would only pay out market value and that would be £3,000 if you were lucky! That is £1,000 gone into the ether! Couple that to the fact that the turbo is probably nearing the end of its useful life and that all manner of horrors possibly await on the unit injector front then it maybe time to change.

Hmmm, just talking myself into getting something else here that would be worth keeping and that would be cheap to keep going. My mind springs to an older B5 Passat / A6 with the 110hp AFN engine. They are tough and they fall easily within the realms of keeping economically on the road unlike a PD engined TDI, better on juice to.

Saying all that, I will keep it and will soon have it up on some ramps and will be wrestling the gearox out to change the clutch AND the bloody DMF.

[MalcQV]

DMF is only fitted to Diesel engines?
I guess I am asking if my car has one?

[paul b]

So I personally would spend the £1k and make do with the car until it dies.

With you there Clinterous!

What disappoints me is the fact that such a part is that expensive and so unreliable at the same time.


Saying all that, I will keep it and will soon have it up on some ramps and will be wrestling the gearox out to change the clutch AND the bloody DMF.

Yes, the DMFs are expensive, but they're not unreliable! They usually last the length of the clutch, and many DMFs get blamed for clutch problems, because when a clutch begins to fail the DMFs takes the punishment and then that fails. And people will put it down to the DMF and blame the DMF design.

More often than not it is the clutch that ruins the DMF, not the other way around.

I too am not pleased knowing that one day my Audi is going to want a fortune spent on it on a DMF + clutch, but provided I am still in ownership of the car I will get on with the job and change it. This way I know I will be able to keep the car for another period of thousands of miles and that will not need changing again. This just brings me back to my first point... better the devil you know.

Paul

[Crasher]

One post will do, seven is a bit excessive no matter how upset you are!

[Ben]

back to vw today.