Clutch Vibration Problem
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Clutch Vibration Problem
TOYOTA AURIS TD comes in for a Clutch Vibration Problem
So, for some unknown reason. Christmas time brings in a few cars that are having Clutch Vibration problems. Hence, these are the normal problems. So, such as the driver cannot get the gears. Or the gears grind. Thus, when trying to drive the car and so on.
The Toyota Auris had a slightly different clutch pedal vibration and noise problem. As a result, the car was sort of vibrating and rattling. Consequently, as it was being driven along. When speaking to the customer. Ryan Linton, my workshop manager. Discovered that the car had only had a new clutch fitted about two years ago. So the customer found it highly unlikely. Hence, that the clutch could be causing the clutch vibration in first gear problem. Especially when driving the car along.
Ryan explained that the only way to tell is to check the clutch pedal vibration when engaging the problem for the clutch vibration when letting off the clutch, by stripping the housing off and taking a look. The customer agreed, and he took one of our courtesy cars while we explored his car to see what the problem was.
The other clutches that were done this week were standard sort of jobs.
taking two or three hours to do, but we always check with our Auto-data computer system for the times it takes to do these jobs, and this Toyota was shown to take seven hours. This included the Duel mass Flywheel having to be changed, but at this stage we did not exactly know what was wrong with the car.
Clutch Vibration Problem
Ryan tripped down the Auris clutch housing and assembly. Only to find that the system was a dual mass flywheel. To clarify, the car had only had the clutch fitted two years ago, and nothing had been done to the dual-mass flywheel. This action had
caused the pressure plate and the Dual Mass Flywheel to wear prematurely. Causing the DMF to have more play in it. Therefore causing the clutch vibration.
We did not fit the first clutch.
However, the customer said that he would not go back there again. The cost was estimated at about the £1000.00 mark. Of course, the customer gave us the go-ahead to do the job. The time given by Auto-Data was pretty accurate, and it took Ryan near enough six hours to complete the job. We always fit LUK clutches and DMFs because they were the company that originally developed the products along with BMW in Germany, and to date we have never had any warranty problems with the LUK products in the past.
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The Toyota Auris clutch and DMF was finished, tested and returned to a happy customer another job well done by my excellent staff.