Annihilated My Clutch

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Brack said:
Did the RAC tell you ETA of 4 hours ? - if your alone then deffo shout up.
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1-2 hours for the van, arrived in 90 mins, then was told approx 2 hours for a truck to come, he arrived in an hour and three quarters. So from my initial call at 6pm, the truck came just after 9, then had to spend about 45mins to an hour in Kirkbymoorside waiting for my lift home to arrive with a pizza for company.

I'll bear that in mind for future, kinda restores your faith in humanity :D
 
LZIR would have been worth a punt, if anything like that happened near me then i would have ferried out some food etc etc. still glad you have gotten it almost sorted
 
Never even looked at the LZIR section til it was mentioned earlier, if it happens again that will be my first port of call, would rather give pennies to a fellow owner for help rather than a man in an orange van who doesn't want to be there in the first place
 
Difficult one - this
Recent discussions showed that LZIR should not take the place of a recovery service????

However a poor show leaving you like that. Did you not have any contact numbers for any of the other peeps in your group?

Not sure how to play this - I suppose when push comes to shove, we dont leave peeps stranded, even if we whinge about it.
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
Difficult one - this
Recent discussions showed that LZIR should not take the place of a recovery service????

However a poor show leaving you like that. Did you not have any contact numbers for any of the other peeps in your group?

Not sure how to play this - I suppose when push comes to shove, we dont leave peeps stranded, even if we whinge about it.
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nah not to recover him but just as company so he didnt have to wait in the dark.

If someone got stranded near me after laning etc i would be happy to pop out with a flask of tea.

Not if someone random has just broken down on the motorway though.....
 
Wouldn't have asked for or expected a great deal, but it someone could have aided me the 2 miles back to the town I'd just left, then that would've saved me a big chew on. But if that wasn't possible, the company and a cuppa instead of waiting alone in the middle of nowhere in the dark in an area I didn't know
 
Like I said on FB, if I had known earlier in the evening.....I would of took a trip down. :)

Your be out with me next time, so you won't get left alone. We always have plenty of food, tools, cookers etc. :)
 
Yeah mate I appreciate that, thanks for your advice on the clutches too.
Better bring extra sausages then for the lads lol
 
SES88 said:
Went laning on Sunday, all good in the hood, til i hit Rutland Rigg (and hit it I did), clutch had been suspect since earlier in the day, finished it off on the Rigg, ended the day in the middle of North Yorkshire in the pitch black waiting for a man in an orange van...who wanted to charge me £239 for a ride home. Got home eventually at 00:35am, 7 hours after i set off on what should have been a 90min drive.

Car is getting done at a specialists who just happened to be 3 miles from where my car died, complete carbon kevlar clutch kit with single mass flywheel and all hydraulics, will be like a new car, hopefully, presuming they find nothing else.

Flywheel had been on the way out for a while, had been getting a knocking and vibration when pulling away for 2-3 months, think I just gave it the heave ho to die!
Besides all that, had a good day, interesting to see what the car can do, and what it really can't do!
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I thought the rule of thumb on here was that a single mass fly wheel was a no no for a td4?
 
Read and heard a lot of conflicting "opinion", everyone has one it seems. Spoken to people who've ran both types, spoken to people who are firmly in one camp or another. So its hard to gauge exactly what's fact and what's just one person's opinion based on their ideals of what they "think" is best
 
Spacemonkey... said:
Maybe you can be the forum guinea pig..? ;)
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Well, my car was ready today, heading back down to Yorkshire in the morning to pick it up, so I shall report on the 100 mile drive back home, which will involve motorways, country lanes, hills, lots of gear changes, so we'll see how it goes
 
From what I've read, the DMF was instead of the springs you used to get in clutches, and is there to add refinement in the pickup and to keep the diesel vibes from the gearbox. Some say that by going back top SMF as long as you have a nicely sprung clutch should and have been ok, but some say and have found they blow the box to pieces from what I have read in the VW world. My findings are that if the DMF lasts as long as the clutch, then that's not so bad. I can live with that. Yes, it's a big bill but only once every 100k or so.
 
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