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How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway?
« on: September 11, 2013, 10:08:47 am »
Is it mad to consider, what real savings can be made, ie what's the labour cost for this job at an Indy.

I'm definitely not a mechanic and the most I've done on the Golf is Throttle body / calipers / wiper mech / cam follower / precat removal all small jobs, is the job too big and complicated to take on?

Be good to hear your thoughts and whether its worthwhile. :happy2:

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How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway?
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2013, 10:24:26 am »
Not impossible but you need a bit more tooling and manpower. With the nights drawing in and weather changing I would do it sooner than later.

My mate has a ramp and I do loads of jobs on it but I got a trusted garage to do our tdi clutch/DMF for £120 cash, couldn't be bothered with the chew on.
Used to have Edition 30 - number 009 and a GT TDI 140.
Now have an S4 B8 Avant (stage 2)

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Re: How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2013, 10:26:53 am »
Cheers bud, for 120 it hardly seems worth the headache and no doubt bleeding knuckles to do this myself,was that especially cheap or about right?

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Re: How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway?
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2013, 10:35:34 am »
Book time was 4-5 hours (they did both tdi's 1.9 more involved than 2.0) so about 25-30% off normal
Used to have Edition 30 - number 009 and a GT TDI 140.
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Re: How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway?
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2013, 07:47:45 pm »
My local indy is £50 per hour, so it's probably around £250, which again probably worth it over a DIY, esp. if there are special tools needed.  Part of me fancies doing it, if only to say yeap I done that, lol - but most of me doesn't. :grin:

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Re: How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway?
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2013, 07:51:24 pm »
Easy!



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Re: How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway?
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2013, 07:54:22 pm »
^^^^  :notworthy: fair play fella.

Its not the taking it apart,  or the putting it back together again, its the having one single bolt left over that makes me take it to a professional.

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Re: How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway?
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2013, 08:33:52 pm »
Just work methodically :)

The record we managed for box on-box off was 2 hours on this platform car  :happy2:

Always one bolt left over, eventually you figure out where the bolts come from haha.

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Re: How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway?
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2013, 08:43:45 pm »
Hahaha, I always have pots for my bolts MC71, but I know what you mean. lol

Cheers Jay, I guess it's one of those jobs where you feel like you shouldn't do it, but once you get going it's not too bad....

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