Oh well, seems my clutch is about dead now, started slipping the other day when you are anything less than very gentle in applying the power.

Luckily it's going into a trusted independent garage tomorrow for the timing belt, and to have the gear box drained and refilled with cosha VAG oil - the latest hopeful attempt to solve my 3rd/4th gear change issue. So now I'm hoping they'll have time to do the clutch as well. Anyone any idea how much I should expect for this and how long it will take? Because I don't have time to source the kit the garage will be doing this.

Going to ask him to do the MOT while he's at it.

Tom

Typical!

Just dropped the car off at the garage, and do you think I could make the clutch slip! The other day on a 120 mile round trip up hill down dale and motorway I was having to feather the power in, now I can give it the beans and it'sfine.

Hope it's just a case that it happens when warm rather than a new problem to diagnose. I'm pretty sure it was the clutch, there were no lights to go with the slip.

Tom

Mines just started to slip, only does it when the boost kicks in. When driven steady it's ok so hopefully it'll last until I can source the relevant parts for the g60/vr6 smf set up.

Not a great start to the new year

i had a quote for clutch brand new 235 plus vat. paid for it to be done then told by mechanic it was gear box. in end i changed transmision oil just standered stuff not skoda spec and its tenfold better.

VAG gearbox oil is no different in price and well regarded as being the stuff to use

Also 235 seems far too cheap for a new dual mass flywheel and clutch would expect three times that even for just the clutch sounds too cheap. Look into solid mass flywheel.

£235 does sound rather cheap!

i've looked into the smf vr6/g60 and for parts alone its around £200 + fitting and iirc this is cheaper than the standard set up?

VAG gearbox oil is no different in price and well regarded as being the stuff to use

Also 235 seems far too cheap for a new dual mass flywheel and clutch would expect three times that even for just the clutch sounds too cheap. Look into solid mass flywheel.

SOUNDS CHEAP DONT THINK SO ONLY CLUTCH. GEAR BOX I WAS QUATED 1150. BRAND NEW. AND WAS TOLD IF YOU CHANGE GEARBOX ITS EASIER TO CHANGE CLUTCH COS GEAR BOX NEEDS TO COME OUT ANYWAY.

VAG gearbox oil is no different in price and well regarded as being the stuff to use

Also 235 seems far too cheap for a new dual mass flywheel and clutch would expect three times that even for just the clutch sounds too cheap. Look into solid mass flywheel.

235 ISNT CHEAP. GEARBOX WAS 1150. ITS EASIER TO CHANGE GEAR BOX AND CLUTCH BECAUSE GEARBOX NEEDS TO COME OUT ANY WAY. SO I CHANGED THE GEAR BOX OIL BECAUSE GEARS WERE A BIT HARD TO FIND AND THINGS ARE BETTER. 235 CLUTCH CALL TITCHFIELD GARAGE MANSFIELD....

235 ISNT CHEAP. GEARBOX WAS 1150. ITS EASIER TO CHANGE GEAR BOX AND CLUTCH BECAUSE GEARBOX NEEDS TO COME OUT ANY WAY. SO I CHANGED THE GEAR BOX OIL BECAUSE GEARS WERE A BIT HARD TO FIND AND THINGS ARE BETTER. 235 CLUTCH CALL TITCHFIELD GARAGE MANSFIELD....

£235 is cheap if thats a fitted price!

i'll call them 2morra seen as i'm from mansfield!

and there's no need to shout (capital letters?)

judging by most of the posts regarding clutches etc that have been thrown around on here many a time that is a very cheap price by all accounts.

closer to £500 fitted would be about the norm iirc.

Edited 3 January, 201115 yr by sivrs

SOUNDS CHEAP DONT THINK SO ONLY CLUTCH. GEAR BOX I WAS QUATED 1150. BRAND NEW. AND WAS TOLD IF YOU CHANGE GEARBOX ITS EASIER TO CHANGE CLUTCH COS GEAR BOX NEEDS TO COME OUT ANYWAY.

Lucky it was fixed by changing the oil then

I thought my clutch was on the way out but problem seems to have gone away for now got a g60 conversion priced up though.

Just to confirm then, I'm not interested in a DMF to SMF conversion, I just want a replacement clutch pruchased and stuck in by the local (trustworthy) independent garage so I can get back home to Aberdeen. So do we think this is about £235 ish (labour and parts) and what about 4 hours work, or am I looking at an engine out, days worth of work and something considerably more expensive?

Tom

Just phoned my local Skoda dealer who quoted £498 fitted Inc vat.

Also phoned titchfield garage in Mansfield who quoted £275 + vat fitted. He also said a clutch kit was about £100? (think I'll give that place a miss)!

£100 clutch kit

what he means is he will only be replacing the clutch plate for that but thats not an issue if the flywheel is okay

and its not a big job of you have ramps say 3 hours max

backstreet garage £35 to 40 an hour feasable

Just phoned my local Skoda dealer who quoted £498 fitted Inc vat.

Also phoned titchfield garage in Mansfield who quoted £275 + vat fitted. He also said a clutch kit was about £100? (think I'll give that place a miss)!

is the £275 only the labour? So it would be £375 inlcuding parts? I had a look on eBay for an idea of parts cost and they seemed to range from 50 - 100 for a kit (didn't know which one I needed), so I'm not sure the price you've been given is that bad.

My problem is I don't have the time to source the kit, etc, I'm meant to be travelling back to Aberdeen on Friday after the timing belt has been done, now I'm going no where until the clutch is done.

Tom

£275 was parts and fitted + vat.

If £100 is the going rate for genuine parts then I suppose it's not a bad price?!

as I understood it when the clutch is slipping the flywheel is more than likely on its way out so either you get it changed at the same time or fork out again for labour another clutch AND a flywheel did see a post from someone who said that there dmf was ok cos they got it sorted straight away and im prepared to be told im wrong :p

also isnt the £100 clutch the transmech one? £150 for the oe i think?

3 hours labour sounds right as i got quoted 4 for the job with the flywheel

as I understood it when the clutch is slipping the flywheel is more than likely on its way out so either you get it changed at the same time or fork out again for labour another clutch AND a flywheel did see a post from someone who said that there dmf was ok cos they got it sorted straight away and im prepared to be told im wrong :p

also isnt the £100 clutch the transmech one? £150 for the oe i think?

3 hours labour sounds right as i got quoted 4 for the job with the flywheel

eBay have Borg and Beck clutch kits for hundred £80-100, a parts supplier I spoke to said £239 for main dealer one.

As for the flywheel needing do, I'm hoping to god it doesn't. Does anyone know which cars have them and which don't - mines a 1.9 TDi 110 BHP engine.

Tom

Will be dmf

would have thought clutch is similar price to rs one

Oh well as it turn out the suppliers hadn't delivered the water pump so the garage decided to start on the clutch instead, the DMF was shot, the clutch was warn and tthe centre part of the clutch was rattling around!

They are putting in an SMF and a new clutch, so that's sorted.

When I know the cost I'll add it here for reference.

The water pump is due tomorrow, the garage will drain the gear box and refill with the VAG oil I supplied.

They'll checking the alternator clutch while they've got the belts off, see if it is knackered and the cause of the aux tensioner failure.

And when all's done they'll MOT the old girl, so hopefully that and the insurance which is just been sorted is the last expenditure for a while. It'll have to be - I'm darn near skint!

Tom

£235 is cheap if thats a fitted price!

i'll call them 2morra seen as i'm from mansfield!

and there's no need to shout (capital letters?)

judging by most of the posts regarding clutches etc that have been thrown around on here many a time that is a very cheap price by all accounts.

closer to £500 fitted would be about the norm iirc.

not fitted price sorry just clutch

Sorry to jump in guys, but my DMF has been on its way for a while now - adisory on service last year - so am going to have to get the clutch and DMF changed and would rather do i on my terms, not when it lets go.

I have a 03 Ambiente diesel - and the garage doing the servive quoted £900 all in this morning. They are a former Skoda (a few years ago) franchise but have been independent for a few years.

Got the independent guy my father and brother use to give a quote, and he has called back with parts and labour prices I think (from the message) of around 750 - 850?

I am in North West Kent (Gravesend) if anyone has any suggestions - and also any comments about what price I should be looking at - this seems expensive comapred to the quotes above although its not clear to me if those include the DMF?

Any advice really gratefully received

Cheers

C.

the big chunk is the dmf which costs around 500 iirc

only way round it is convert to smf

Thanks for that.

Anyone know the potential cost savings of going to a SMF and the potential downsides?

As I understand it, the cost of the SMF is significantly less, but the risk is that vibrations that were previously dampened by the DMF ransfer through the gearbox with the attendent risk of wear and tear.

Edited 5 January, 201115 yr by Crazyc

Thanks for that.

Anyone know the potential cost savings of going to a SMF and the potential downsides?

Downside – CHATTER, CHATTER, CHATTER, BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (noisy at idle)

Cost saving – about £600?

OK, I know this is a while ago, but I thought I'd let folk know the out come. The garage finally got round to sending me the invoice.

The work was:

new timing belt, kit (excluding water pump) purchased by me, kosha water pump by them

new clutch

new flywheel - single mass

remove knackered clutch and knackered dual mass

fit the timing belt and water pump

drain and refill the gearbox with new VAG oil (supplied by me)

Whole lot was done for a smidgin under £600 ex VAT

Reading around this doesn't seem too bad. At the time I had no option, I couldn't take the car far, I was at the folks and really needed to get back home to Aberdeen.

Tom