Evening gents,,

another problem with my 09 1.8 TDCi changed injector 4 seems a lot better but not right 

anyway I’ve now noticed that when the car is idling it has quite a bad shake but I slightly depress the clutch pedal it stops, I only have to take up a bit of tension then it kinda stops or completely press it and it stops,,, clutch bite point is good about halfway it doesn’t slip but sometimes it does feel like I’m riding it,,

im wondering if it’s maybe the flywheel but would anyone like to throw in some suggestions,, as I’m kinda losing faith in it

thanks in advance peeps   

Flywheel does sound likely tbh.  It's the sort of thing you really need a second opinion on in person rather than online though.

34 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Flywheel does sound likely tbh.  It's the sort of thing you really need a second opinion on in person rather than online though.

Yeah a friend has also said it probably the flywheel but now I’ve also noticed a horrible noise when warm and no clutch pedal pressed mostly disappears when pressed so guessing that could be release bearing,,,; if it don’t rain It pours with this shed 🤣. Guessing I’ve bought somebody else’s ***** 💩 🥲

1.8tdci has dual mass flywheel which wears out.  My brother bought a 1.8tdci where the dmf was rattling / clunking on idle. We found that if we were going to be stationary a while eg traffic lights, push clutch pedal down and then release it slowly. This seemed to get the dmf to settle down.  He did 20k miles over 2 yrs and it never seemed to get worse. (But many other things went wrong with car- final nail in coffin was abs unit failure- he called it a day and scrapped it). Shame , when it was running fine I thought it was a brilliant car - so much torque

40 minutes ago, isetta said:

1.8tdci has dual mass flywheel which wears out.  My brother bought a 1.8tdci where the dmf was rattling / clunking on idle. We found that if we were going to be stationary a while eg traffic lights, push clutch pedal down and then release it slowly. This seemed to get the dmf to settle down.  He did 20k miles over 2 yrs and it never seemed to get worse. (But many other things went wrong with car- final nail in coffin was abs unit failure- he called it a day and scrapped it). Shame , when it was running fine I thought it was a brilliant car - so much torque

Cheers mate,,

kinda wishing I’d never bought it knowing what I’ve heard about this engine 🤣,, as you say if I keep my foot slightly depressed on the pedal it’s ok but like your brothers it’s has got a shed load of torque which is good but I thought low mileage it’ll be fine 🤣🤣,, how wrong could I have been,, injector 1 had been replaced, I’ve just changed injector 4 and 2-3 aren’t brilliant (according to forscan). I assume a clutch n dmf will be around £400 then labour to fit unless it can be done on axle stands then I’d have a go, got a good selection of tools and a good torque wrench and love a challenge, but this car is one big challenge 🤣🤣,, can’t afford to scrap it and can’t sell as it is as I’m not like that so guessing I’ll have to repair 

big thanks for the info though mate and I’ll try your bringing the pedal up slowly and see if that helps as my foot aches are a while keeping it down 🤣

Holding the clutch down on any car is bad for it as it is going to cause a lot of wear on the release bearing.  At least the 1.8tdci does not have a diesel particle filter.

Yeah mate no particle filter thank god,, have to hope slowly releasing pedal works as it’s starting sound terrible now 🤣, just as I seem to fix one thing something else starts rattling or banging 🤣

maybe I should buy a different manufactured car,, had a blue oval’s for the last 20 years 

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