i have been browsing a while but thought it was time to ask a question to the skoda community.
I have a pretty low mileage MKI slx tdi 147,000 kms. its spent many years as a diplomatic car in eastern europe and been driven to just about every country in europe so, in some ways its been through the mill but generally looked after and obviously not used daily. Build year is 1996, but first registered 2000? always struck me as a bit odd.
anyway, the flywheel took a very long time dismantling itself a few years after i bought it about 5 years ago, but eventually I figured out what it was and persuaded my reluctant ukrainian mechanic to replace it along with the clutch for good measure, but it still works! he screamed over the deafening rattling.
I had tried to get it replaced with a solid the first time round, but no one i spoke to was sure of the correct solid replacement, so we went with the same DMF, i expected it to outlive the car. wrong.
that was 122k 2 years ago. its now on 147k and those sounds have started up again, its unmistakable. I dont mind spending money keeping an old car going, its recently passed its austrian MOT with flying colours (apart from an eye wateringly expensive rearlight replacement that i missed), but i do mind spending money on another flywheel. id rather drive it into a lake or off a mountain first, because it really annoys me. anyway, i will have this decision to make in the next few months. Does anyone know the part code of the solid flywheel, AHF is the engine code. The clutch and flywheel were replaced like for like. But i dont know the part numbers.
the car drives well, pulls well, mechanically seems sound, yes, this may be symptomatic of a small fault elsewhere, but it still strikes me that these parts are simply not up to the job, and this one is likely going to be the end of this car given the job it is, plus the insane prices and incompetence of Austrian garages (got my sills nicely flattened here for the first time 3 months ago), which is a real shame.
