2007 Mk5 Golf 2.0 GT TDI 140 - Recommendations for DMF replacement in Liverpool

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Sat 24 Mar 2018 18:37
2007 Mk5 Golf 2.0 GT TDI 140 - Recommendations for DMF replacement in Liverpool - GazKaz

Hi everyone

As the title suggests, anyone had a DMF & clutch replacement on Merseyside that they would recommended?

My car is an 07 plate Mk5 GT TDI 140 with a BKD engine. My DMF sounds like a brick in a washing machine! Drives great apart from the noise and engine wobble on tickover. Is a SMF the way to go?

Cheers guys.

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Sat 24 Mar 2018 19:27
2007 Mk5 Golf 2.0 GT TDI 140 - Recommendations for DMF replacement in Liverpool - RobJP

Do NOT go for a SMF.

The DMF is there to absorb 'torque shock' from the diesel engine in low gears. Basically, what makes diesels so nice to drive (that huge 'wall' of effortless torque from low revs) produces a lot of stress. So a DMF is put in, to reduce that stress between the engine and the gearbox.

Put in a SMF, and all that stress has nothing to absorb it, so it travels straight into the gearbox, tears the cogs on first and second apart, meaning a new/rebuilt gearbox.

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Sat 24 Mar 2018 20:12
2007 Mk5 Golf 2.0 GT TDI 140 - Recommendations for DMF replacement in Liverpool - GazKaz

Hi RobJP

Ok, so that answers that question then! Cheers for the detailed reply. Only asked as some people have used a SMF because they last longer than a DMF, but what you explained sounds perfectly reasonable. Thanks again mate. ??

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Sun 25 Mar 2018 13:13
2007 Mk5 Golf 2.0 GT TDI 140 - Recommendations for DMF replacement in Liverpool - Big John

As RobJP mentioned I'd stick to a DMF with the 2.0 140 diesel - it has one for a reason. The SMF can be OK with the lesser powered engines, indeed on some VAG cars they are fitted with SMF from new - eg 1.6 diesel Skoda Superb mkII, although the fitment of a DMF varies between VAG models.

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Sun 25 Mar 2018 16:52
2007 Mk5 Golf 2.0 GT TDI 140 - Recommendations for DMF replacement in Liverpool - GazKaz

Thanks Big John

Any rough ideas of cost? Can it be done DIY? I'm ok with the spanners, it's just the specialist tools needed probably.

Cheers

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