TD4 Flywheel DMF or Solid

Hi Folks.
This is my first post but have trawled the forum for a while. I have a 2005 TD4 (100kmiles) and the clutch bite is low and is slipping occasionally when i floor it in a higher gear. My mechanic has a few clutch + flywheel quotes for solid and DMF. There is nearly £300 in the difference. My understanding is the solid type works okay on some car models but vibrates like hell on some others. Have many here have gone this route and was it worth it.

Thanks
Mike

Pritty sure its the dmf u need to go for mate

If you put a solid clutch on instead of a DMF, you need to compensate that in something else in the clutch. One of the guys tried explaining it to me a few weeks back, I got bored and walked away. I will try and listen a little longer today.

Ive got a 2003 td4 91000 miles with a valeo kit in that has a solid flywheel and it seems fine to me.

dontyajustluvem said:

Ive got a 2003 td4 91000 miles with a valeo kit in that has a solid flywheel and it seems fine to me.

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Yes, DMF's are expensive and a right p.i.t.a.

I've heard the DMFs are fairly robust on the TD4s. In the time I've spent on this forum can't recall hearing of any totally failing (maybe I've just missed the threads).
Unlike my old Mondeo mk3 TDCI (2004) these are known for destroying DMFS danger zone is just after 70k miles but can go sooner. My one also killed the starter when it self destructed.

Thanks guys for all the quick responses. You might be right about the DMF not being too troublesome on these. And they do get some abuse towing caravans and horseboxes etc. Even in 30 pages of the "Freelander faults poll" it gets only one mention.
One the other hand so far I've seen two thumbs up for the valeo solid kit . dontyajustluvem here and kevinsc on a different post both said positive thing about them.
Wondering if this engine is detuned enough that its both easy on DMF and tolerant of solid flywheel. My old 406 has a 90bhp HDI with solid flywheel from new and never seemed rough. Is it just the later very high pressure rail >150bhp engines that cause all the grief tearing up DMFs and shaking to bits with solid conversions.

Mike

dmf are the damper /cushioning for the transmission solid flywheels ues sprngs in the clutch plate dmf doesnt ,theres a limit to the amount of damping that can be got with springs in a clutch plate so dmfs are used on modern high torque engines ,they should be changed with clutch ,you may well manage on solid flywheel but dmf will protect drive train better