As in the heading, I would like to know the type of 6-speed manual gearbox fitted to my 2016 Octavia vRS TDi with CUNA engine. I've found lots of discussions about the various DSG boxes but little about the manual box. What sort of clutch does it have - single plate or twin plate - wet or dry? Solid or dual mass flywheel?

I've found that when it's hot after a longish run (50 miles or more) there appears to be a bit of what I can only describe as "looseness" when the drive takes up from rest; almost like judder but not that bad and I wonder whether an oil change would be beneficial?

My only experience with a wet clutch is on a pre-war Morris car whose single plate consisted of a ring of corks pressed into holes in the plate. This ran in an oily environment fed from a tiny drilling to an oilway in the back of the crankshaft main bearing and the excess drained back to the sump.

I’m reasonably sure the TDI vRS uses the same box as a GTD of that era - a single plate clutch MQ350.

It’s a dry clutch - I’m not sure of anything modern and manual that uses a wet clutch, besides bikes.

I’m also 99% sure the CUNA has as DMF.

Thanks Occy, I was afraid of the DMF - a bit fragile for 200-odd BHP...

A DMF is best utilised in high torque and diesel engines. It’s also used on smaller engines that have increased vibration due to a) being stop start b) having some sort of ACT/CoD and c) being an unbalanced three cylinder.