DanKell

From the photos the "damage" is black marks on the flywheel. Certainly looks like carbon to my untrained eye. However no idea if that is normal for a clutch at 30k miles. Certainly not a lump of melted slag.

It’s a delear. We’re talking about £1k parts, then labour and Tax. thanks Warrior that answers one of my questions. Dooge gives a good option of why it might legitimately have gone. ive been sent photos which seem to show some wear. I’ve passed those on to someone I know who can confirm whether they look abnormal.

They have done a full strip of the clutch which is where the clutch wear has come from. I suppose my question is this: If it was air in the clutch system, say from a fluid change, how quickly could that lead to the sort of clutch damage we now see?

Hey guys, wondering about a bit of advice Two weeks ago we ran into a problem with out MkIII Octavia. Mrs K was driving home and found the clutch was very low to the floor. She was able to change gear at the junction but it stalled a couple of times before she was able to pull away and drive home (about 2 miles). She described it as feeling a bit sluggish. The next day we went to move it off the drive and check for leaks but it wouldn't engage gears at all - just crunching. This was just under a month from having had a major service on the car. No leaks obvious. Brake fluid above Max level. No warning lights. A search suggested that the clutch needed bleeding. FIL managed to get the car drivable by pulling the clutch up and pumping it. Spent the week trying to the car back into the service centre, eventually calling on Skoda UK. We only drove it to the Service Centre (3 miles), during which time it seemed ok. Today we got the diagnosis. The clutch plate is excessively and the flywheel has overheating damage. £2k of work. And that's if the clutch hydraulics are good, which they apparently can't test until the clutch is replaced. This is a 68 plate car, that had done ~15k when we bought it 3 years ago, so we have driven ~5k pa To say that we are livid is an understatement. Any thought's on how the clutch could go so quickly?

Any updates for a late 2018 Skoda Octavia?