Not a happy Bunny!!!!!

[faux]

I'm not having the best day today.....

My car has broken down......the flywheel is dead.....£950????? :shock: I called my garage and they could do it for a lot less but the AA has refused to recover it due to the fact that a garage has looked at it.

My new Iphone4 just cost me £140 to be repaired due me dropping it from a great height!

My insurance is due on the van...... :|

My work has just sent my travel claims for the past 4 months back because they have changed the forms :?

The joys :mrgreen:

 

[easy]

I know what you mean dood! something is in the water! been speaking to the states most of the day to sort out mistakes with our orders, and been sorting out cheeky monkeys who have put their prices up some 300%!!! not on my fucking watch they wont :evil: :roll: :lol:

 

[faux]

300%!!!

Wow, that is inflation for you!

 

[cotswoldiver]

But at least if these do come in 3's you have had your full set now :lol:

Bit rough though thats for sure £950 - be cheaper to buy another super skoda on ebay Jon!

 

[Pete B]

Bummer. What actually is wrong with the flywheel Jon? Am sure a used one could be sourced, VAG parts and all that. Think 'Partfinder' is pretty good at er,... finding parts.
Not looking forward to tomorrow myself, going to be getting a cable through 100 odd metres of underground ducting, each entry point a foot deep in manky water, 125m cable ordered when I wanted 150m to be on the safe side and it's due to chuck it down as of 12 noon. Oh, and it's me birthday!!!!
Hope that's the lot for you. :?
Happy days! :lol: :lol:

 

[Araon]

Good to see I'm not the only twat getting fucked about by work ....

Forced into progressing a job at Clapham Common that we were ill equiped for (as it was programmed in and they'd have wasted a few K) only to hand the radio back to LUL this morning minus its GPS ooohh shitty emails abound :lol: "told you so"

bugger back there tonight to repair the damage this time with the right crimp tool hey hopefully the radio rack/transmission will remain in free run till we get it back (hey how much money we just blown on that one plus the possibility of the issue worsening and associated SLA defaults ouch)

I love working where I do, who wants tickets to Billy smarts big top tonight.

 

[RICH-I-AM]

950 pounds? That will be dual mass im guessing,not cheap at the best of times.
Had a crap day because..........
I hate what i do for a living and trying to find a way out.
That'll teach me to pick my career path at 16 :lol:

Rich

 

[faux]

950 pounds? That will be dual mass im guessing,not cheap at the best of times.
Had a crap day because..........
I hate what i do for a living and trying to find a way out.
That'll teach me to pick my career path at 16 :lol:

Rich

Yep a dual mass.....and my car has only done 46k miles. The plates had completely separated.......they blamed the lady doctor driver (previous owner) :? I know I could have got it done cheaper but I was stuck outside the Skoda garage and I phoned a few other garages and they came in about £800 ish using non genuine parts.

Could be worse.......i could be stuck down a mine in Chillie

 

[ozziedog]

Don`t know anybody that`s got a good word for those bonded dual mass flywheels. Mine went at about 50 K luckily I still had 2days warranty left on it (mate worked there) so GM paid for it and I paid to have a new plate slopped in whilst they were buggerin about with it. (Signum). Don`t change down quite so heavy now or really go down the cogs like I used to. They are big ouchie ouch ouchs them sudden bills like that. That sort of dosh is a serious amount of Stella,, at least a weeks worth !! :lol: :roll: :lol: At least it`s getting done.

Ozziedog,, good luck :lol: :shock: :lol:

 

[sebroberts83]

Like Easy said 'there's something in the water'.

Picked our other car up yesterday (Fiesta ST) from the body shop where it's been for THREE MONTHS, had an accident in may and although there was not that much damage they couldn't get the thing going so after being taken from one place to another and getting Ford UK involved they decided to replace the ECU, anyway this worked and finally got to drive the car home lastnight after a thorough inspection.
On my return from work today the Mrs tells me its leaking oil. Thinking she's parked it over the spots from the bus :lol: i take a look underneath and the whole underneath is covered in engine oil! so i check the oil level and guess what theres no fucking oil left at all.
To say i'm pissed of is an understatment and too late to ring the body shop so thats me loosing a days pay tommorrow to sort it out. Tossers!
And to top it off i've gotta get the bus through the M.O.T (Ball joints and Brakes) as it may have sold. .

Seb

 

[faux]

Don`t know anybody that`s got a good word for those bonded dual mass flywheels. Mine went at about 50 K luckily I still had 2days warranty left on it (mate worked there) so GM paid for it and I paid to have a new plate slopped in whilst they were buggerin about with it. (Signum). Don`t change down quite so heavy now or really go down the cogs like I used to. They are big ouchie ouch ouchs them sudden bills like that. That sort of dosh is a serious amount of Stella,, at least a weeks worth !! :lol: :roll: :lol: At least it`s getting done.

Ozziedog,, good luck :lol: :shock: :lol:

I'm just gutted that there is no kit at the moment to revert back to stock Flywheel. But I can't see me keeping the car for more than 20k miles........

 

[K@rlos]

Don`t know anybody that`s got a good word for those bonded dual mass flywheels. Mine went at about 50 K luckily I still had 2days warranty left on it (mate worked there) so GM paid for it and I paid to have a new plate slopped in whilst they were buggerin about with it. (Signum). Don`t change down quite so heavy now or really go down the cogs like I used to. They are big ouchie ouch ouchs them sudden bills like that. That sort of dosh is a serious amount of Stella,, at least a weeks worth !! :lol: :roll: :lol: At least it`s getting done.

Ozziedog,, good luck :lol: :shock: :lol:

I'm just gutted that there is no kit at the moment to revert back to stock Flywheel. But I can't see me keeping the car for more than 20k miles........

There should be conversion kits, I've done 2 2006 Transits and a 2005 Mondeo, dual mass is a s*it idea. Solid flywheels have proved themselves for years, why change? :|

Karl

 

[faux]

Don`t know anybody that`s got a good word for those bonded dual mass flywheels. Mine went at about 50 K luckily I still had 2days warranty left on it (mate worked there) so GM paid for it and I paid to have a new plate slopped in whilst they were buggerin about with it. (Signum). Don`t change down quite so heavy now or really go down the cogs like I used to. They are big ouchie ouch ouchs them sudden bills like that. That sort of dosh is a serious amount of Stella,, at least a weeks worth !! :lol: :roll: :lol: At least it`s getting done.

Ozziedog,, good luck :lol: :shock: :lol:

I'm just gutted that there is no kit at the moment to revert back to stock Flywheel. But I can't see me keeping the car for more than 20k miles........

There should be conversion kits, I've done 2 2006 Transits and a 2005 Mondeo, dual mass is a s*it idea. Solid flywheels have proved themselves for years, why change? :|

Karl

I have asked around and can't find one, I have seen them for fords and vauxhalls but not for VAG's

 

[Pete B]

This is really embarassing considering I used to work in R&D years ago. Shows how out of touch I am that until I saw this thread I had never heard of a DMF
What I am aware of however is the 'torsional ocillation damper' which is basically doing a similar job at the other end of the crank but in a very, very rudimentay form. Having googled DMF and seen a 3D example, my first thought is that it has far too many components and is much too complicated, so no wonder they fail. Low revs on a straight 6 with a proper solid flywheel has to be the best way surely?