Here's a story for your information.

 

An eagle-eyed service technician noticed my 1.2 TSI 110 was leaking oil between the engine block and gearbox. In retrospect, it smell a bit oily and I was topping up every so often - it was losing about 35ml every 1000 miles (which I had written off to normal oil consumption).

 

Apparently this issue had been seen on Polos. The oil leak was caused by a fault with the blots that hold the flywheel in place on the crankshaft. These bolts were replaced under warranty. (The clutch and flywheel surface weren't contaminated.)

 

So if your 1.2 TSI is slowly losing oil it might well be worth checking for this particular leak.

Any other issues being caused by the flywheel bolts slackening off a bit, I've forgotten right now what you had complained about earlier in the years wrt clunks etc.

 

I can't say that I'm ignoring what you have written!

Not seen anything else I'd attribute to flywheel bolts.

 

The clonks are back (kinda -- some other noises including creaks too that I suspect are chassis). I remain suspicious that something else is overworking that gearbox mount.

 

Air con pump also starting to whine-and-grind. Want that checked out before stumping for a full aircon service, since it's otherwise working.

Edited 21 October, 20187 yr by ettlz

Have you tried grabbing the top of the engine and rocking it front to rear, before getting the top gearbox mounting replaced my wife’s Polo 1.2TSI 110PS made quite a lot of noises and moved a bit, now it is a lot tighter, so less movement and noise, and now roughly 5 months on, still clunk free on/off throttle and in general.