Flywheel gone boom!!!

[pany]

Just thought I would let you know about a problem I've had, as I have seen the initial symptoms mentioned on these forums before.

My july 07 GTI with 72k miles on the clock has just killed it's flywheel. The effect was a very juddery idle with massive feedback coming through the pedal box and the car sounding like a tractor.

I mention it on the forum as I have previously had, on about 4 occasions, problems with the car sounding like a tractor when I started it. If I then turned the car off and restarted it, everything was fine.

Iirc in the posts it was just thought to be an intermittent problem and something to do with the crankcase needing to be pressurised in the TSI engine.

I could be wrong and the two events may not be related in any way, it just occurs to me that the judder and the noise made by the car were the same in both cases.

My engine isn't modded in any way, so it should be okay. But I thought I would put this up as a warning if anyone is getting problems with the car on starting, it might be worth getting the garage to give it a looking over.

[VeeDubDan]

That's some serious milage in 20 months.  Your car just probably just wants a rest!    Hope it is fixed soon, under warranty.

[Saint Steve]

Seems usual now that high milers need new dual mass flywheels these days, my last Peugeot 407 with gilactic miles done exactly the same.

[RedRobin]

Seems usual now that high milers need new dual mass flywheels these days, my last Peugeot 407 with gilactic miles done exactly the same.

....Out curiosity, what do you call a high-miler, Phil? How many per year?

[DanoGTI]

Out of interest, what sort of money would you be looking at for a replacement flywheel?

Dan

[pany]

Out of interest, what sort of money would you be looking at for a replacement flywheel?

Dan

Don't know Dan. I am lucky enough that it is a company car. I just dropped it off and pick it up again fixed. ironically it was going in for a service on friday

[Saint Steve]

Seems usual now that high milers need new dual mass flywheels these days, my last Peugeot 407 with gilactic miles done exactly the same.

....Out curiosity, what do you call a high-miler, Phil? How many per year?

My Peugeot 407 had 85k in 18 months!!. They say average mileage a year is circa 12k.

[RedRobin]

....

I've been doing about 18k a year in the GTI. Barely 40 miles last week but gonna be well over 400 by Sunday.

But I was more interested in what levels of mileage might get into 'flywheel-gone-boom' territory.

[MAT ed30]

i do 18 to 20k a year lol just love driving

[RedRobin]

i do 18 to 20k a year lol just love driving

....And meeting up with dozens of other Mk5 GTI enthusiasts on foggy afternoons!