Author Topic: How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway? (Read 1269 times)

Scottymon · « **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.

skard · « **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.

Scottymon · « **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?

skard · « **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

Scottymon · « **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.

xjay1337 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 11, 2013, 07:51:24 pm »

Easy!

MC71 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 11, 2013, 07:54:22 pm »

^^^^

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.

xjay1337 · « **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

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

Scottymon · « **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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Author Topic: How hard is it to change clutch/DMF on the driveway? (Read 1269 times)

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