A neighbor of ours used to start off, uphill, in second and that took a long time for her Nisan Pulsar clutch to fail.

It seems they are taking the lazy approach to your problem and probably says more about them than your driving.

Dual Mass Flywheel failure is not just a Skoda problem - a DMF catastrophic failure had just written off a friends Ford Mondeo. Another friend had a Saab diesel DMF fail at very low mileage - repaired and still going strong.

 

 

However my old 2003 1.9 pd100 5 speed Skoda Superb owned until last year is still on it's original clutch/DMF (I took it to 165k miles - now over 190k)

Edited 7 March, 20179 yr by bigjohn

Something to be said for a 'slush box'?.

Hi gpowell

I have had a 2012 Yeti Greenline for 4.5 years now and last week the clutch started that acrid burning smell at 47,000 miles like your car.  I too have had various cars over100,000 miles and I only once had to replace a clutch at 150,000 in the 1970s. I don't rest my foot on the clutch. 

I feel something is not right. If it burns out again in six months I'm getting rid of the car. Has anyone any ideas what might be causing this if it is not my driving?

I too have been driving for fifty years and neither my wife nor I ride the clutch.

I bought a 2011 Yeti 1.6 diesel green car one year ago. the clutch burned out in about 6 months. Now the replacement clutch has according to the mechanic burned out. it did make the burning smell the day it went. They said it must be my driving. I did about 20,000 km in the year.

I had two manual shift toyotas before that went to over 100,000 miles and I never had to replace a clutch. I don't rest my foot on the clutch. Occasionally I have stayed in second gear when I should have been in fourth. Can that have burned it out?

I feel something is not right. If it burns out again in six months I'm getting rid of the car. Has anyone any ideas what might be causing this if it is not my driving?

I have been driving for fifty years, Toyotas and Hondas mostly. Never had problems with a clutch before.

Hi  Merrymac,

 

I agree. Something is not right. So far my third clutch is OK. I did have a conversation with a different experienced garage owner who said there was a period when the sealed clutch package they supplied was not right. One of his customers whom he knew well had hers burn out in a few months. He thinks they are OK now. I wonder if I got an old one, maybe you did , too.

 

I have had problems getting that emission upgrade they sent me a letter about. Within about three months it had messed up the ?EGR valve or whatever it is called. I got it fixed for free on their special 2-year "trust" initiative. I will never buy any car again that has anything to do with VW. It is a shame they cannot be honest.

 

I hope your clutch is not burned out. I don't think you have any recourse for that problem other than pay, pay pay.