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The Skoda Dealership Service Manager showed me photos of what they found - the friction linings had disintegrated and he said that he was surprised they lasted 9k miles

Update - The Huddersfield Skoda dealer has replaced the clutch free of charge due to it having disintegrated unrelated to driver usage.

Update - I have just received a call from the Service Manager at the dealership, saying that his director received an e-mail from me this morning regarding a Skoda Webinar which highlighted premature clutch failure in the Mark 3 TSI (see above), however our Fabia is an MPI.

I have asked them to bag the parts up for independent inspection, and I have quoted the webinar which identifies a clutch failure problem with Mark 3 Fabias : The Information is from a Skoda tech webinar from September 2020. hope it helps, Vehicle specification  Model: Octavia III, Scala, Karoq, Kamiq, Fabia III  Engine: 1,0 TSI (EA 211) in combination with the manual gearbox MQ200  Complaint/Fault symptom  Clutch slips, smell of burning from the clutch area  After having been removed, the clutch is found to be burnt or degraded/fallen apart Technical background/Cause  Due to anticorrosion protection applied to the flywheel and the clutch, the friction value increase is much more slowly. This may lead to premature clutch failures.  Despite optimizing measures (plate lining of the clutch S308, the diaphragm spring of the pressure plate with temperature stability and decreased rpm in the transport mode), the premature heat overload of the clutch still sporadically occurs.  The clutch failures occur in the range from 10 km to several thousands km depending on how the vehicle is operated.  Measure/Production change  Parts without Anticorit have been fitted to the vehicles since CW 20/2019 (except for Fabia III, where the measure has not been implemented yet).

Hi, I got an email from Skoda UK Customer Services today saying " I do have to make you aware clutches are wear and tear items and are only covered for the 1st 6months or 6500miles of the vehicles warranty. So if the diagnosis is that the clutch has worn out and then its unlikely we will be able to do anything regarding the potential costs."

Hi All, My wife is on her 5th consecutive Skoda (3 Fabias/2 Rapids), a 2019 1.0 TSi with 9k miles. She usually keeps the car for 3 years or 40k, then goes back to the Main Dealer (who services it) and trades in for a new one. Last week the car lost traction and smoke/burning fumes started coming from the engine bay. We had to get Skoda Recovery (AA) to tow it to the dealers, and they think that the clutch has failed, quoting us £950 for a new one. In 40 years my wife has never had a clutch fail, so this is something of a great shock - she doesn't abuse the clutch or sit at traffic lights with her foot on it, so we are baffled as to why this has happened?