The retail price on both kits is £864.91 plus VAT

Fitting is £250 plus VAT

You also need to allow a few extra pennies approx £20 or so for new bolts etc.

:eek::eek::eek: That's as bad as IML Plymouth

All parts and fitting should be no more than £450 all in:thumbup:

That's what a few of the other taxi drivers have said they paid when they had there,s renewed on there MK1s with over 150k on the clocks

Edited 25 September, 200817 yr by skippy41

MK I and MK II have a different configuration possibly?

The MK I's were all TDI 90, SDI or TDI 110 with the exception of a few later PD130's.

THe MK II are all PD105 or PD140/170

Agree the MK1 will be different hence the price for the MK2.

So the kit from a 110 MK1 may do the trick for a 105 MK 2 as its only the BHP thats slightly out:cool:

Monday = The new Sachs SMF/Clutch kit mounted...

First impression;

Stock feeling in the clutch pedal

Extremely noicy

Need some practice to make the drive smooth

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You can feel that the engine is hooked up to a gearbox now, it's more like driving a 1970 Dodge Challenger with nervous camshaft and manual gearbox on low RPM.

If you are afraid of loosing the smooth feeling of the VAG 6-speed transmission; never replace the DMF with a SMF.

The only thing to make this conversion even more wicked is to go for a sinter clutch w/o torsion springs...

But I have already blown up a DMF on a Volvo; I will go for the SMF now

You learn to keep the clutch in most of the time when stopped to keep it behaving itself.

Less offensive then....

Kate are these nice and heavy so you don't get excessive idle vibration on the dervs or are they light and so going to make a lot of noise. I'm assuming the billet steel isn't that light, but not really use.

So the kit from a 110 MK1 may do the trick for a 105 MK 2 as its only the BHP thats slightly out:cool:

No because they might have a different gearbox and also the MK I is a TDI and the MK II is a PD TDI so will have more vibrations.

It depends on the kit and if it's suitably damped for a PD and also the gearbox/flywheel on the engine as to whether it would work.

It should still work though, I can remember a dealer telling me that on the MK1 SDI if the box went they where to fit the boxes from the 90 TDi as they where stronger????

It should still work though, I can remember a dealer telling me that on the MK1 SDI if the box went they where to fit the boxes from the 90 TDi as they where stronger????

The SDI/TDI90/TDI110 were all TDI (non PD) engines and all had similar boxes.

I have no idea if the MK II Octy with the 1.9TDI uses the same box as the MK I Octy with the TDI90/110 or if perhaps you would fit a PD130 6 speed box plus solid flywheel.

What I'm saying is don't guarantee it will work.

Also IIRC some of the TDI 90 and maybe some 110 didn't have a DMF.

2:nd impression of the clutch...

I'm much more positive to the flywheel swap today!

The noicy clutch combo is not too noicy, you can adapt your senses to accept the mechanical rattle

The smoothness is far away from the DMF, but 1500+ rpm while engaging the clutch seems to be the way to go (poor gearbox and diff)

The best entertainment; let a friend try the car, what a show! Looks like an absolutely beginner with manual trans

My next step is to wipe out the check engine light & glow light... they are very, very yellow on the dash. Both the VAG and the Vagcom error code is pointing to the EGT sensor, but it's something else in reality, a new sensor doesn't help at all... new ECU is the solution according to the dealer (sorry for infecting this tread with engine management problems)

£1300 :eek:

i had no issues and felt virtually no difference at all in pull away difficulty wise when i fitted a smf to my 1.8t 4x4 octavia.