Hi everyone,

 

Today in a traffic jam with the car stopped and with the DSG selector in manual and in first gear, my clutches burned, its incredible, my Fabia only has 3000 miles and 4 years old, i'm very dissapointed because my mechanic doesn't know why this happened, i wonder if maybe my mechatronic unit is damaged or something weird inside my DSG happened,  the car is now under maintenance and on thursday probably i'll have a veredict. anyone has heard something like that in this gearbox? or in another Vrs??? any comments or sugestions are very welcome. By the way the car is a Fabia VRS 2012.

Edited 20 July, 20169 yr by FelipeA

Did you buy it new? That mileage seems low for a 2012 car.

Did your DSG turn out to be one that needed or could have the service campaign actions

...synthetic oil changed to mineral oil and a software update and was it done?

Ahh the beautiful vRS in Columbia.

 

Just the type of weather conditions where the DSG were failing hence there was a 'World Wide Recall' which excluded the EU / UK

http://skoda.co.nz/news/dsg-service-campaign

Other world regions had the Warranty Extended on the DSG, best check for your World Region.

http://master.skoda-auto.com/mini-apps/recall-actions

This is the only Recall Action link i have, works sometimesin Europe, but not always correct, some vehicles do not show as action needed, 

and some do that do not need service campaign works.

Edited 20 July, 20169 yr by GoneOffSKi

The clutches in the DSG gearbox will not become damaged or burnt out when a vehicle is at idle speed, stationary with “ D “ selected. The clutches are controlled by hydraulic pressure determined from engine load, with the vehicle in this situation very little load is applied to the clutch packs so they shouldn't burn out. So yea I think something has gone wrong with the mecatronics unit.

6 or 7 speed? Unlikely in the 7 speed as they default to fully disengaged for safety reasons in case of a failure in the mechanism. As it's a Fabia I am assuming it's the 7. Definitely check with the dealer, although on a 2012 model it should be the gen2 dsg.

His car is a Mk2 Fabia vRS 1.4TSI with a DQ200 7Speed Twin Dry Clutch DSG.

These have had issues with MCU failure and Clutch Packs which was the reason for a 'World Wide Recall'  

which some how was not World Wide or always a recall.

Corrosion internally due to Factory Filled with Synthetic Oil according to VW.

http://autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/volkswagen-audi-skoda-dsg-recalled-australia-and-new-zealand

http://skoda.co.nz/news/dsg-service-campaign

http://autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/vw-uk-why-we-dont-need-dsg-recall

Then May 2014 VW, Skoda, Seat, Audi start Service Campaigns in the UK, but just a cheapo one, 

not as elsewhere or like in NZ, and no extension of the Warranty in the UK/EU

Edited 22 July, 20169 yr by GoneOffSKi