Right.
Diesel engines produce lots of torque. That's why most people like the feel of them - that 'wall' of torque that you have from lowdown right through the rev range.
The DMF is there to act as a shock absorber for that torque - especially in low gears - otherwise that torque would be sent straight to the gearbox.
Remove the DMF, and you WILL end up tearing the gearbox apart. If you're the type of driver who has managed to go through 3 DMFs so far (I've been driving diesels almost exclusively, doing 30k+ a year for the last 15 years, and not managed to wreck one yet), then I'd expect the gearbox life expectancy to be a couple of years at most. Possibly just a few months, especially with the remap.
Rebuilding a gearbox is a lot more expensive than replacing a DMF.
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