Clutch slipping

[remlapeel]

I have an appointment with Clive Atthowe on Saturday to get it looked at. The man is a genius and luckily my revo dealer. Been out and about today and haven't managed to get any slip at all. I'm confused....

[monkeyhanger]

I have an appointment with Clive Atthowe on Saturday to get it looked at. The man is a genius and luckily my revo dealer. Been out and about today and haven't managed to get any slip at all. I'm confused....

Definitely not a momentary lack of traction that is over so soon the dash doesn't light up? Slippage only happening in the wet or cold?

[SRGTD]

I have an appointment with Clive Atthowe on Saturday to get it looked at. The man is a genius and luckily my revo dealer. Been out and about today and haven't managed to get any slip at all. I'm confused....

+1 on Clive Atthowe. Really knowledgeable guy. Diagnosed and fixed a problem on a previous (non-VW) car I owned some years ago that the main dealer had a number of attempts at fixing without success.

[GrahamFR]

Rob, if it smells bad it's your clutch. I've never known why they have to smell so bad but they do, suggest you go complain to your dear if you're unmapped

[monkeyhanger]

Interesting topic this...

I've thought for a while there might be something up with my clutch. Then tonight while reversing on my drive (bit of snow as well), i did everything as normal and the car revved pretty high but pretty much didnt move and i got a horrible smell. Is this not clutch slip (cant be s**t driving, theres no incline to reverse up)?

Only done 6000 miles and they have been mostly B roads 50-60mph so not much clutch action.

Never gone through a clutch before or had this happen.

There’s been a few people with stock Rs that have cooked their clutches. VW longevity doesn’t seem up to its usual standards for all affected.  Hopefully the inclusion of autohold on the MK7s will have VW unable to accuse you of causing it by riding the clutch at junctions etc.

[RobS23GTI]

Cheers guys, got it booked in Monday at the dealers to be looked at along with a buzzing sound around 3000rpm in sport mode (assuming this is sound acktuator).

Glad I held off modifying it...

[remlapeel]

Had mine looked at today by Clive, turns out it is my clutch slipping at the peak torque at 2200rpm under maximum load in 5th and 6th.....yay!

Soooo, I have called VW and got a quote...£1480 fitted. Barton given its 9months old and only had the revo map a week. I truly truly hate the car...worst car I have ever owned.

[GrahamFR]

Well I am sorry to hear that mate, can't you remove the map completely and then try to get some sort of good will out of vw or can you not recreate it standard? If not suggest you stick 95 Ron in and wait for decent aftermarket ones to come out, at less than £1500 anyway.

[remlapeel]

Clive is looking into a price for me. He did say with how infrequent it is, even with the map on it should hold a long time, as long as I change down rather than lazy drive using the low down torque. VW want £580 for diagnostics to take it apart to check if it's a warranty issue. If its not and I get the clutch fitted whilst it's apart then it's £1480 if I don't then I have wasted £580 in diagnostic time. They just take the piss.

[monkeyhanger]

As soon as you've done 10k miles, if there's nothing abnormal found when they open it up (debris etc) and it just looks worn, they can (and probably will) claim "wear and wear", although I think people should expect a minimum of 70k miles from a clutch running stock power if they're not riding the clutch at junctions and being savage on their gear changes all the time (OK, Remlapeel's isn't stock, but a few on stock have had theirs go).

For Remlapeel's to go so soon it would seem that his was built to a "just enough" tolerance if he hasn't been extremely unlucky.

Haven't heard of a single GTDer yet who's cooked their clutch - with or without modification.

Any quotes for an uprated clutch fitted elsewhere Remlapeel?