Audi A4 - Clutch and dual mass flywheel, £1300??

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

A4 1.8T, 2005, 6MT here. Clutch and DMF changed last year, cost me £600 from my trusted garage using a Sachs 3pc clutch kit and LUK flywheel.

I thought it was just diesels that had dual mass flywheels - learn something every day!

I have a VAG car on an 06 plate. Its an automatic with DSG. The car developed a rattle when slowing for a red light or when the ignition was turned off. I'd owned it for less than a year and paid £4k

I went to a recommended Indy garage who was a VAG specialist and they replaced the DMF. It cost around £650 last summer. The rattle went immediately.

I was basically left with the choice of selling the car minus the cost of having the work done as any buyer would notice the rattle or have it changed and keep the car for a fair few years to justify it

I love the car, leather interior which is heated too and for an eleven year old car it doesn't look out of place lined up against cars which cost significantly more. I guess your choice really is the same as mine was. Sell for a reduced price or have the work done but that only makes sense if you're going to keep it for a fair few more years

khcomp wrote: »

Shop around: A decent clutch & flywheel kit is going to be £500, of which the flywheel is around £350, with about six hours' labour to fit.
I can't find a single mass conversion of any reputable make for the car, so it looks like you're stuck, but you should be able to get the job done for around £700 - £800 all in.
Be VERY careful though - there's a huge market in poor quality clutch kits & flywheels being passed off as branded ones, so if it looks too cheap there's probably a good reason for it.
Unfortunately, BeenThroughItAll's car is around £150 cheaper for the kit, and it's an hour and a half quicker to replace than yours, hence the difference. However, if his garage are willing to do the work, I'd happily make a 200 mile round trip to save a few hundred.

£150 plus 1.5 hours at £45/hour... doesn't anywhere near make the difference in between £600 and OP's cheapest quote stated of £1200.

That's twice the price, not £217.50 difference.

khcomp wrote: »

I'm quite good with sums: My post suggests that there should be a difference of around the £200 - £250 mark between the amount you paid & what the OP should be paying. I didn't suggest that subtracting the difference in parts & labour from their original, and very expensive, quote and coming to a slightly less extortionate figure would produce the resulting numbers....

OP's best quoted price he's stated in this thread is £1200. Your post said 150 quid cheaper for the kit and 1.5hrs quicker to fit on my job 'hence' the difference.

If you were comparing the price I stated with one you'd come up with in your head that wasn't what the OP quoted, you should have made that clear...