Dualmass Flywheel Issue

[RS3100]

Got in the wife's car this morning and as soon as I got to 1750 rpm in the third the revs shot up to 4000rm, same happened in all the other gears.  Only gears this didn't happen was 1st and second.

 

Car is 2 months shy of its fourth birthday and about 33,000 miles so a bit surprised that there is a clutch /dual mass flywheel issue on a car that spends no more than a quarter of its time doing town driving, it is mainly motor ways and large A roads.

 

Has anyone else experienced this and could it be that on the Octavia there is a repeat or similar issue to the one they had in 2006 when 1600 cars were recalled for a dual mass flywheel problem; VOSA Skoda Octavia ii 2006 Recall

 

Anyone got advice on how to go about trying to get Skoda to pay for this as a good will gesture at the very least as surely this sort of problem shouldn't appear on such a low mileage car with full Skoda variable service history?

 

This will be the first car that I would of had to replace the clutch on, all my previous cars (admittedly not a Skoda) have all been high milers (100K to 150K)with full service history and none of those has clutches replaced and I'd usually put about 50K on these with no problems in that department.  This and my Superb are the first cars I have and from new, so wondering if I made a mistake or just got unlucky.  Electric window cable on drivers door failed after 40 months of ownership!

 

[KenONeill]

That sounds more like clutch slip than the DMF. As you'll see from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_mass_flywheel you can't sustain an engine spinning much faster than you'd expect from road speed due to a DMF issue.

 

That's not to say that the DMF hasn't failed as well; do you get vibration and/or jangling noises from the transmission?

[RS3100]

Everything is lovely and smooth, no odd noises on gear changes, acceleration except sudden increase in engine revs when you hit 1750 rpm.

 

If you are extra extra gentle, then no no slip, but feed the power in normally to go from say a 30 to 40mph then it's likely to slip.

 

Thanks for the link, starting to under stand dual mass flywheel and clutches.  More familiar with the single flywheel and clutch set which was he norm through the 70's, 80's and 90's.

[robt100]

Only thing that springs to mind if something that happens on my brothers Vauxhall......He gets clutch slip due to diesel Leaking and contaminating the clutch. Hopefully its nothing like that as it cost him a new fuel pump!

[Phil-E]

Definitely clutch slip.

 

Has it had this recall done:

 

http://www.dft.gov.uk/vosa/apps/recalls/searches/expand.asp?uniqueID=F6772BCF73A610A480257968002E2074&freeText=Blank&tx=

 

Phil

[toonfan66]

This is (un)happy timing for me.

 

Today I experienced this for the first time going round Holdingham roundabout near Sleaford, all was normal then revs rose as I accelerated.  At first I thought I had been 'riding' the clutch but my left foot was firmly on the foot rest.  This happened for the rest of the day, (very) gentle use of the throttle and all was OK but as soon as I exceeded perhaps 1/4 throttle, if that, the revs rose again.

 

Car has done 72900 miles, generally benign motorway/A-road driving, I'm not a loon (think Captain Slow and you'll not be far wrong) although I bought a caravan 8 months ago, even so I've towed for a lot less than 1000 miles as the winter isn't really ideal vanning weather, so can't really be a factor.

 

Think I've some Googling to do, as well as reading link posted above (thanks).

 

One bright side, it's made me come back to briskoda after an overly-long absence.

[silver1011]

Got in the wife's car this morning.

 

This will be the first car that I would of had to replace the clutch on,

 

These two sentences ring alarm bells.

 

I don't know your wife but a mate of mine at work has a wife that consumes roughly one clutch per year. She won't drive an auto either 

[DanialA11]

1750 rpm is when the turbo kicks in I'm sure so does explain why clutch would slip as that peak torque