i just changed my clutch and flywheel because i started to feel a slight vibration leading me to think the stock dual mass flywheel was going bad cuz i heard that they do that when they are on the way out. plus my stock slave cylinder/ throwout bearing was going out as well. but as far as my clutch disk it was actually in pretty good conditon a lot of lining left

 

Okay you got me a little nervous now!
What do you mean you felt a slight vibration...
My shifter vibrates all the time, I've just assumed I didn't put it in gear all the way.
But when I hold it or move it around a little it will stop...

Is this just from the normal vibration of the car???
I don't have time to get any repairs done! [:@]

Hmm mebbe I should make a post in the classifieds:

Take my car to the shop while I work! $25 per hour!

 

How many miles did you have on yours when you did this?

 

90k

 

@36k myself - I'll keep that in mind - thanks!

 

Okay well that makes sense, i thought he meant, just driving with low rpms in general...thats a pretty extreme case.

 

heres why I don't coast...

Say, by some strange happening, you're car stalled, while you were coasting, and a second later, something jumped onto the road infront of you. Normally, if you were driving in gear, whether you had spark or not, you're turning the car over, pistons are moving, and you're creating vacuum, you're also driving all your pumps, things like the powersteering pump. Now that your car quit, and your in neutral, you're brake booster is worthless, because you're not supplying that vac. it needs to work, and your powersteering pump isn't turning, so your steering is heavy. In this situation, you wouldn't be able to react fast enough to swerve, or stop in time. There might also be other times where avoiding an accident means accelerating, you could be coasting up to a light, and someone behind you looses their brakes, or doesn't see you stopping. You might catch a glimpse of them hauling *** toward the back of your car, but by the time you get the car back in gear, and get on the gas, it might be too late.

Engine braking by downshifting does put a load on your engine and transmission that it doesn't usually see, but I really don't expect to see excessive wear if you're rev matching and downshifting at lower RPMs. A downshift from 4th to 2nd that revs the car out to 6K on the tach is def. not good, but if you work down thru the gears so that when you release the clutch your tachs reading 3 grand, you're slowing the car, and your right where the power starts if you need to get back on the gas.

Speaking of rev matching, how many here can upshift OR DOWNSHIFT smoothly (aka, no gear grind) w/o using the clutch?

 

Funny, I've always rev match shifted since day one - I remember I had a old buddy of mine accuse me of "riding" the clutch because of it... lol...

It's never completely accurate - but when down shifting at high speeds it definately helps in not throwing you against your seatbelts or locking up your wheels for that wee split second in a high speed turn (hell, most don't know when to accurately accelerate in a turn). But coasting puts less wear and possible tear on your clutch - my only true concern was it detrimental to the Quatrro transmission.

 

only time you have wear on your clutch is when its inbetween engaged, and disengaged, unless you're making obscene power and you slip it anytime you get on the gas ; ) Don't 'ride' the clutch, and you should expect a long life out of it. As for possible damage to the quattro system, I've never heard anything about that, and I wouldn't put much thought to it personally.

 

Man I didnt even know you could shift without using the clutch. I always thought if I tried i would burn it up. How/When do you do it? Not that I'm gonna try, I just like to know.