Clutch Slippage

[HellFire]

I drive my vRS quite briskodaly sometimes to say the least on my private track, how often is the clutch slippage, every time you hard accelerate and what about hard cornering at high revs/exiting out of a corner, I dont want to loose traction to the front wheels and end up in a field. I know people talk about driving around it but surely it's quite awkward when your pushing the limits?

:eek: :peepwall: :rant:

[ColinD]

Never had a clutch slippage issue untill it actually began to fail, now it's hit and miss...

53k did a track day in Nov and it was fine all day...a week later had a day of slipage pootling round town. A little now but I'm not pushing it at all so I suspect none. I'll wake up one morning and it will be dead full stop.

Looking at a possible replacement from JBS.

[ColinD]

Doh,

Who thought this website up with fabia and octavia sections...

Neo had a clutch slippage incident after his power upgrade, IIRC he sort of fixed it by giving it some welly. Pretty sure that was the technical term used.

[Tech1e]

Not had clutch slip in and out of corners. Mine allways seems to go at max torque in 4th upwards. Even then it only slips about 300-400 rpm then settles down and shes off, but im guessing over time that will get worse. Roll on uprated clutch.

[Xavier]

I think I had a tiny bit after the remap, just under 2000rpm. It was accompanied by some judder so I don't know if it was clutch or the dual mass flywheel :confused:

[HellFire]

Hopefully it's not every time and I just need to get used to feeding the power..

[pbirkett]

Yours isnt even mapped yet is it? Thats worrying... saying that, 15,000 hard miles for my car and it hasnt done it yet - but from what I understand it mainly seems to be caused from booting it at low revs in high gears... and I've pretty much trained myself well out of doing that - always best to keep above 2000 rpm. I've also pretty much always fed the power after I got used to it.

[WW_VRS]

When was that uprated clutch coming out again

[flatfourburble]

I've got 15.7k on the clock now and haven't had any problems. Hellfire maybe you should get you clutch checked before friday if your worried.

Just take it alittle bit easier on it, like others have said dont boot it from a standing start every time and build up the power. At the end of the day being gentle on the car will give a more rewarding drive.

[flatfourburble]

When was that uprated clutch coming out again

Dont know it's still in denial :P Sorry I'll get back to work now

[HellFire]

Ummm sorry maybe people are mis-interpreting me, I dont have any clutch slippage now.

[JBS Auto Design]

Hi all

We have now got contacts that can get us Sachs uprated clutches for the Fabia vRS

So give us a call on 01246 550400.

We should be able to help.

[TaviaRS]

Uprated flywheel to go with it?

What sort of prices are you looking at and would it fit Octys?

[devonutopia]

Hi all

We have now got contacts that can get us Sachs uprated clutches for the Fabia vRS

So give us a call on 01246 550400.

We should be able to help.

Is that pretty much the same for all Fabia TDIs?? Although having said that if things happen, it might not be an issue.

[JBS Auto Design]

There is no uprated flywheel to go with it.

It is designed to go on to the origional.

But it will not fit all the diesels only the vRS.

They are different.

Will look in to it though and see if we can match one up for you.