Hiya folks

 

I got a 2006 octavia 4x4 with 1.9tdi 6 speed manual with 260 000km on it. i bought the car a little while ago as a beater, just back and forth to town.

The other day i started hearing odd sounds while the car was idling, i soon found out its coming from the clutch area.

So far it only makes noise, i dont feel any vibration, no pulsation on the clutch pedal, problems shifting or any of that sort.

I was planning to take the car for one last inspection and get it roadworthy/legal for another 2 years, but now im not sure its worth it.

I dont really drive that much, maybe like 10 000km a year, if that.

 

I talked to a mechanic that has changed a lot of these flywheels, he said dont worry about it, he said knows many of these cars that ran for years without failing completely.

Then i googled it, theres a lot of people saying "dont drive it, it will fail within short time", "change it now" etc etc...

 

Who should i believe?

 

Now im worried, this car isnt really worth a flywheel and clutch, not to mention the work (its getting pretty rusty)

 

Should i just junk it now before putting any more money in it to get it to pass inspection? unfortunatly i already put some money in it to prepare for inspection

or will the flywheel live on even tho it makes noises for some time still? basicly i guess im looking for it to live on another 10-20 000km

 

Thanks in advance for your advice

Purchase breakdown recovery assistance and drive it until it fails, that way you are buying time until you need to buy another car.

Thanks for your answer 😁

 

Thats a good idea and might be just what i will do, unless failure is likely in the very near future.

Then it will be better to just go ahead and find another car now.

Wonder how many had the flywheel fall apart lets say 3 months after the noise first was heard, has it happened that anyone is aware of?

Guess due to the cost of repairs it's only worth doing if you plan to keep the car for 2-3 years more as the dmf protects the gearbox from the vibrations as it acts as a damper.  Otherwise just run it until it breaks.

Thanks again for your answers.

 

Seems i might be in luck, apperently a guy in town bought a new flywheel and clutch but never put it in before it got junked ,so i think i might just go that route.

My skoda is a 4x4, not sure if that complicates the job by much?

 

do you know if any write ups or videos of the job on a 4x4 with manual box? i googled but didnt find anything on my exact car

Thanks again

Its not the AC pump thats making the noise? I get a odd noise but it disappears when i shut off the AC.

Hiya

 

Not on mine, i can clearly hear it comes from the gearbox when it idles.

 

If you have a noise when ur ac is on, sounds like ur ac compressor might be in trouble, but before you tear into that i would check the pulley on the belt tensioner, they go bad now and then, however i dont know if that noise would go away when u turn ac off, could be possible since its less strain on the belt.

19 hours ago, hectus said:

Hiya

 

Not on mine, i can clearly hear it comes from the gearbox when it idles.

 

If you have a noise when ur ac is on, sounds like ur ac compressor might be in trouble, but before you tear into that i would check the pulley on the belt tensioner, they go bad now and then, however i dont know if that noise would go away when u turn ac off, could be possible since its less strain on the belt.

 

I think its the magnetic clutch that makes that noise. Works fine though 

33 minutes ago, andreasw said:

 

I think its the magnetic clutch that makes that noise. Works fine though 

There's no mag clutch on octavia 2 ac compressors. They are variable displacement compressors.

 

There's no clutch at all. The compressor runs all the time even with no demand but the duty cycle is very low due to the design that limits displacement to near to nothing in low / no demand. 

Noise when switched off will be the bearing that the pulley runs on, the shear plate broke (eventually) on mine due to me in my ignorance giving the compressor a glug of liquid R134a when recharging the system, I used a pulley and shear plate that had been removed from my old high mileage Octavia and since then there has been a Ron-Ron-Ron resonant noise when driving at low revs with the AC switched off, it never did it before and is silent with the AC switched on.