3 hours ago, Stuart-h said:

Is it possible to change the donut your self? Mine has sized as well. Can’t afford the stealership prices at the moment !

It can be done but it’s a very fiddly job and requires either removing the entire prop or working around it on the car with a big lever bar.

It is impossible for a rubber (doughnut) propshaft drive coupling to seize.

 

When I hear garages relaying rubbish like that I suspect everything else they say and claim to have done.

On 19/02/2019 at 18:59, nicknorman said:

Spoke to the mechanic chappie when I picked up the car, he said the donut is inside a steel ring thing (which it is, just in front of the Haldex) and the rubber bit swells or otherwise clogs up with gunge and jams in the steel ring. He said it was more common in cars used for towing (which mine is). Apparently there is a new design of donut which is (supposedly) less prone to the problem, and also that there was going to be an added maintenance item during servicing, to lubricate the donut with some kind of grease (red rubber, presumably).

 

Complete and utter BS.

 

And as for greasing a rubber propshaft coupling, they seem to think slathering rubber to metal bonded suspension bushes is a good thing so why not!!!

 

Edited 20 July, 20223 yr by J.R.

8 minutes ago, J.R. said:

 

Complete and utter BS.

 

And as for greasing a rubber propshaft coupling, they seem to think slathering rubber to metal bonded suspension bushes is a good thing so why not!!!

 

I too was scratching my head reading all this, still not 100% what was wrong and why it needed changing or what they even changed.

 

I guess we will never know,

this must of been the 2019 version of ‘your shocks are leaking mot fail’ when we all know there’s a slight mist 99% of the time 

I'm pleased that there is at least one other person around with common sense and a healthy dose of scepticism!

On 20/07/2022 at 17:43, J.R. said:

 

Complete and utter BS.

 

And as for greasing a rubber propshaft coupling, they seem to think slathering rubber to metal bonded suspension bushes is a good thing so why not!!!

 

Since the work was done under warranty then surely Skoda must have agreed with the garage, and (unless it was a complete fabrication) wouldn’t have bothered to design a modified type of donut to fix a known problem if that problem didn’t exist. You did not see the car so you are talking from a position of complete ignorance which, in ruder terms, is known as complete and utter BS.

 

As to the greasing, we’ll the car has now done 81,000 miles and never had a garage service, so the donut has never been “greased” and as far as I know, is fine. I would worry that grease would just act as a dirt magnet. So on that specific point I might have to agree with you.

A complete fabrication spoken by a garage (probably service receptionist) surely not!!! 😆

 

Do you have any proof that this new modified coupling to fix a known problem ( rubber bit swells or otherwise clogs up with gunge and jams in the steel ring) and which has to be greased during servicing actually exists other than in their repertoire of BS?

 

I have a new coupling (still not fitted) and the 2015 original, they are identical right down to the moulded in part number and revision letter.

 

But hey, I'm just a sceptic speaking from a position of complete ignorance

Edited 13 August, 20223 yr by J.R.

I was warned my old B8 Passat was at risk of becoming a deathtrap due to both rear shocks leaking a significant quantity of oil.

 

Weirdly it was only mentioned in person and not noted on the service paperwork?

Yet it passed its MOT the next week with not even an advisory?

 

If they're sorting it under warranty that's cool, I would be interested to see their faces when you ask to see the old part to explain the problem though