Hi. I got in the car today and the engine although running well seems to be transmitting quite a lot of vibration into the car at idle. It's fine once your driving and runs and pulls well. Is this a sign of tired mounts, or worse to come?

 

It hasn't had the emission update, and the car is well maintained, although I'm not sure what oil was used for the last service, I doubt it was cheap crap though, it revs out very smoothly. 

Cheers

Well assuming your car passed 200K kilometres it could be the case you should change engine mount tampons. 

Tampons?

@henrydiscipline

Could be Dual Mass Flywheel

 or possibly the clutch cover faulty and snapped which will be very expensive if you leave too long as will cost you a gearbox

Is there any difference to vibration on pressing in the clutch at idle🤔

It's had a new clutch and flywheel less than 15k ago, genuine VAG parts. It's not terrible, just noticeable. There's no chatter or other symptoms, I don't think pressing the clutch down makes any difference. 

Edited 11 July, 20205 yr by henrydiscipline

@henrydiscipline

When was the timing belt done as mine had vibrartion after that as the engine mount was not set correctly

although that was at 2200 revs which was really annoying and took me ages to narrow down

Edited 11 July, 20205 yr by DEL80Y

I'd check all the engine/gearbox mounts - these may have been disturbed / damaged during the clutch replacement. After some work on my previous Octavia I had a mount fail between the top of the gearbox and the chassis. It looked ok - but it wasn't

 

Edited 11 July, 20205 yr by bigjohn

The belt was done over a year ago. It seemed ok afterwards, however, the flywheel was quite worn, so maybe it was hard to tell. This is just at idle, seems ok otherwise. 

 

I suppose the mounts could just be worn out, they're original I think? It's done 155,000 miles.