rickygolf83 Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 After reading horror stories while researching before i bought my car, this potential issue is on my mind everytime i start the car 🙈 Anyone any experience of this? The clutch down to start being the main driver; older models can fit a bypass harness. Cant find any workarounds for the mk7 to bypass/code this feature out. Has anyone found any solutions? Uprated thrust washers; have read threads from the US with people having this engineering work done, anyone on here done the same? Thanks in advance 🙂👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DustyBones Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 Try not to let internet hysteria (often from American forums) stop your enjoyment of the car. Thousands of these cars have been sold and suffer no problems at all. Forums highlight problems for a few peeps in a closed environment - ie the forum. Drive your car / service it when its supposed to be serviced / enjoy your car. FYI - my last M3 - the forums said the bottom end bearings would disintegrate at 40k miles (at 80k it was still going strong with no problems) The throttle bodies would fail... nope they didn't. My M4 - apparently it was going to suffer crank slip at any moment and crater the engine... nope didn't do that. The turbos would fail.... nope they were fine too. So all in all, just drive your car. Jase, rickygolf83 and bneh 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickygolf83 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2022 Have been driving and enjoying it so far, hopefully can continue to do so 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregozedobe Posted October 16, 2022 Report Share Posted October 16, 2022 I've read only a few stories on crank walk issues, most seemed to be on cars with manual 'boxes, std rear main seals plus heavy duty aftermarket clutches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickygolf83 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2022 Hopefully thats a common denominator. Watching a barum engines mk7 gti engine rebuild during the summer was the first time i heard of it. It was running an uprated clutch. Not wanting to tune mine in the imminent future, maybe at somepoint but would do any preventative maintenance first, clutch and these bloody washers if they are liable to let go 🙄😁 Anyone with an uprated clutch on a manual had any issues? Cheers 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laths Posted October 17, 2022 Report Share Posted October 17, 2022 Got an uprated clutch cos the original clapped out after 22000 miles. Stock car no issues . Enjoy and stop fretting 😁 rickygolf83 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavota Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 On 14/10/2022 at 18:51, rickygolf83 said: Anyone any experience of this? Sadly, yes. 😢 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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