Tony
It could have been mine, as yours was there when I took mine in once. I can't remember if it was when I was having the box done or when I left it for Chris to "assess".
What really worries me is that their demonstrator rattles like a bag of old nails , if the demo at Bristo's had done that i would never have bought one. As it is I can't even get shot of it private as anybody with half an ear would walk away from it.
Don't get me wrong folks, I would love to keep the car, the rest of it is fantastic (looks, equipment etc.) but when friends suggest it sounds like a diesel Transit van when I reverse in to a parking space, well................
Just to re-iterate the current symptons / problems are:-
1. Loud rattle and "clonk" when depressing / releasing clutch peddle (much worse in reverse). The strange thing is that gear changing is fine, although moving the stick while at rest produces a metalic clanking noise.
2. Clutch judder when trying to crawl in town traffic (this only appeared after the gearbox was replaced).
3. Lurching / surging in slow traffic. eg. Drive along under 30 mph and lift foot of the accelerator to slow for traffic. Traffic starts to move, so just touch the pedal and....... wham the car jumps forward. Repeat for whole commute home
4. Going to sleep. You know the situation, siting in side road trying to join a never ending stream of traffic. A small gap appears and you gun the engine. What should happen is that you rush forward, traction control controling wheelspin and join the traffic flow. My experience is (sometimes!):-
"Come on accelerate you *******!"
"Oh, **** he's going to hit me!"
Then voom it accelerates. This seems to be due to the intelligent (sic) ECU that learns how you drive. Great, but when I spend a week mostly commuting it thinks like I drive like an old f*rt and detunes the engine. Removing the battery connection to reset the ECU restores full power, but shouldn't be necessary. A car should respond the same everytime you drive it! I want to know that if I tell it to accelerate, it will.....NOT when it thinks I want to!
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 And relax........There I feel a bit better now :D
Mike
PS. What does Mr TDI think? Would a clutch, lightened flywheel and UNICHIP solve all my problems?