I assume this is a dual mass flywheel, if so, they do that, there are solid flywheel replacements available for some cars, don't know about yours though, if it goes again I would enquire.

Thanks for the info. Yes it is the dual mass flywheel. Once it's fixed the car is being sold!

In the trade DMFlywheels are known to give in to any unusual use very easily, such as roughly used clutch / caravan towing / harsh off road use and excessive city driving. I dont like them , we never used to have this problem before and like timing belts and sealed for life front wheel bearings, these so called improvements have all become industries in themselves due to high failure rates. 30 years ago, I only changed a handful of wheel bearings a year, but now there a bread n butter job like DMF failures, most large garages have a specific mechanic doing DMFs or wheel bearing changes permanatly to free up the rest of the staff....

As a general rule the duall mass should last a good time, the sort of things that can cause it to fail early are such things that work it beyond the way it was designed, ie if there was a vibration from the engine possibly caused by a faulty injector, low compression, egr fault or if the vehicle is being driven in too high a gear at low vehicle speeds causing it to have to absorb excessive vibrations, setting off in second gear, excessive loading (trailor etc) or any other poor driving style.

Its only a Ford engine you can get a solid flywheel and clutch quite easily.

Its only a Peugeot engine actually.