Misold a car possibly?

facade

Not entirely tongue in cheek: I'm from an age where a diesel engine produced masses of torque, and you just got it rolling in first, then straight into top and let the engine pull from about 500 rpm.

If you let a DMF engine labour at low speed, the DMF does its job of smoothing out the vibration, and wears out quickly. They last starship miles in repmobiles that have been driven at a steady 85, fail in 40,000 with town use.

Ultrasonic

facade wrote: »

Not entirely tongue in cheek: I'm from an age where a diesel engine produced masses of torque, and you just got it rolling in first, then straight into top and let the engine pull from about 500 rpm.

What I thought you might have meant was that if you drove it like a diesel (which of course you would) then the DMF will fail, in which case the DMF is not fit for purpose. 500 prm is obviously extreme, but if people end up having to drive diesels like petrols that rather hits the fuel economy that people buy diesels for in the first place. All very silly. If a manufacturer asked if you'd like a diesel that was smoother to drive then clearly the answer would be yes. But ask the question would you like us to make a diesel smoother to drive by fitting a part that is likely to fail and expensive to fit, the answer is much more likely to be no...

Not that we know the OP's car is a diesel of course, plenty of petrol cars have DMFs. Plus I'm assuming the possible flywheel change is as a result of it being a DMF that has failed come to that!