Please help!! Clutch replacement on 2000 Audi TT
1st Gear
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 138
From: Maryland
October 26, 2011
Dear Audi,
We borrowed our neighbor’s 2000 Audi TT and apparently burnt the clutch on our 43 mile (1hr) trip without hills.
After coming off the highway we had troubles getting the clutch into 1st gear before a traffic light. This continued to be a problem on our immediate way back to the mechanic. My neighbor tells me that with a TT you need to engage the clutch twice to go from neutral to 1st gear, but we also had this problem switching from 2nd to 1st gear.
On the first test drive the mechanic did not notice anything wrong with the clutch, but reported similar troubles switching to first gear. On the second test drive together with the owner, the mechanic concludes that the clutch is burnt.
Background:
• 2000 Audi TT
• Mileage: 57,804 since new 2000.
• Owner did not drive the car for long distances at the time.
• Even before the 1st test drive the mechanic warned us for little maintenance history and that if anything would be wrong we may have had bad luck/timing borrowing the car.
• The first invoice reports accordingly that the “rear brake pads need replacing” (10%) and that the “transmission fluid needs to be drained”.
• After the second test drive with the owner, the invoice lists “clutch replacement”.
• Owner admits not having done maintenance for a few years except for oil change.
• The only time the owner let someone else drive the car was in 2004, which was when a valet driver parked it and the same clutch problem occurred.
We feel responsible because this occurred on our trip and thus paid in full for the expensive clutch replacement.
However, my question is:
Is it this easy to burn the clutch of a car of German quality make in just one hour of normal driving (no steep hills, no joy riding and we are used to driving clutches in Europe)?
By reading the forums on the Audi websites, the shifting gears and clutches seem to be recurring problems among Audi drivers.
I wish we had never borrowed the car.
Please be so kind to enlighten me on this matter.
Sincerely,
Dear Audi,
We borrowed our neighbor’s 2000 Audi TT and apparently burnt the clutch on our 43 mile (1hr) trip without hills.
After coming off the highway we had troubles getting the clutch into 1st gear before a traffic light. This continued to be a problem on our immediate way back to the mechanic. My neighbor tells me that with a TT you need to engage the clutch twice to go from neutral to 1st gear, but we also had this problem switching from 2nd to 1st gear.
On the first test drive the mechanic did not notice anything wrong with the clutch, but reported similar troubles switching to first gear. On the second test drive together with the owner, the mechanic concludes that the clutch is burnt.
Background:
• 2000 Audi TT
• Mileage: 57,804 since new 2000.
• Owner did not drive the car for long distances at the time.
• Even before the 1st test drive the mechanic warned us for little maintenance history and that if anything would be wrong we may have had bad luck/timing borrowing the car.
• The first invoice reports accordingly that the “rear brake pads need replacing” (10%) and that the “transmission fluid needs to be drained”.
• After the second test drive with the owner, the invoice lists “clutch replacement”.
• Owner admits not having done maintenance for a few years except for oil change.
• The only time the owner let someone else drive the car was in 2004, which was when a valet driver parked it and the same clutch problem occurred.
We feel responsible because this occurred on our trip and thus paid in full for the expensive clutch replacement.
However, my question is:
Is it this easy to burn the clutch of a car of German quality make in just one hour of normal driving (no steep hills, no joy riding and we are used to driving clutches in Europe)?
By reading the forums on the Audi websites, the shifting gears and clutches seem to be recurring problems among Audi drivers.
I wish we had never borrowed the car.
Please be so kind to enlighten me on this matter.
Sincerely,
2nd Gear
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,049
From: Milwaukee
October 26, 2011
Dear Audi,
We borrowed our neighbor’s 2000 Audi TT and apparently burnt the clutch on our 43 mile (1hr) trip without hills.
After coming off the highway we had troubles getting the clutch into 1st gear before a traffic light. This continued to be a problem on our immediate way back to the mechanic. My neighbor tells me that with a TT you need to engage the clutch twice to go from neutral to 1st gear, but we also had this problem switching from 2nd to 1st gear.
On the first test drive the mechanic did not notice anything wrong with the clutch, but reported similar troubles switching to first gear. On the second test drive together with the owner, the mechanic concludes that the clutch is burnt.
Background:
• 2000 Audi TT
• Mileage: 57,804 since new 2000.
• Owner did not drive the car for long distances at the time.
• Even before the 1st test drive the mechanic warned us for little maintenance history and that if anything would be wrong we may have had bad luck/timing borrowing the car.
• The first invoice reports accordingly that the “rear brake pads need replacing” (10%) and that the “transmission fluid needs to be drained”.
• After the second test drive with the owner, the invoice lists “clutch replacement”.
• Owner admits not having done maintenance for a few years except for oil change.
• The only time the owner let someone else drive the car was in 2004, which was when a valet driver parked it and the same clutch problem occurred.
We feel responsible because this occurred on our trip and thus paid in full for the expensive clutch replacement.
However, my question is:
Is it this easy to burn the clutch of a car of German quality make in just one hour of normal driving (no steep hills, no joy riding and we are used to driving clutches in Europe)?
By reading the forums on the Audi websites, the shifting gears and clutches seem to be recurring problems among Audi drivers.
I wish we had never borrowed the car.
Please be so kind to enlighten me on this matter.
Sincerely,
Dear Audi,
We borrowed our neighbor’s 2000 Audi TT and apparently burnt the clutch on our 43 mile (1hr) trip without hills.
After coming off the highway we had troubles getting the clutch into 1st gear before a traffic light. This continued to be a problem on our immediate way back to the mechanic. My neighbor tells me that with a TT you need to engage the clutch twice to go from neutral to 1st gear, but we also had this problem switching from 2nd to 1st gear.
On the first test drive the mechanic did not notice anything wrong with the clutch, but reported similar troubles switching to first gear. On the second test drive together with the owner, the mechanic concludes that the clutch is burnt.
Background:
• 2000 Audi TT
• Mileage: 57,804 since new 2000.
• Owner did not drive the car for long distances at the time.
• Even before the 1st test drive the mechanic warned us for little maintenance history and that if anything would be wrong we may have had bad luck/timing borrowing the car.
• The first invoice reports accordingly that the “rear brake pads need replacing” (10%) and that the “transmission fluid needs to be drained”.
• After the second test drive with the owner, the invoice lists “clutch replacement”.
• Owner admits not having done maintenance for a few years except for oil change.
• The only time the owner let someone else drive the car was in 2004, which was when a valet driver parked it and the same clutch problem occurred.
We feel responsible because this occurred on our trip and thus paid in full for the expensive clutch replacement.
However, my question is:
Is it this easy to burn the clutch of a car of German quality make in just one hour of normal driving (no steep hills, no joy riding and we are used to driving clutches in Europe)?
By reading the forums on the Audi websites, the shifting gears and clutches seem to be recurring problems among Audi drivers.
I wish we had never borrowed the car.
Please be so kind to enlighten me on this matter.
Sincerely,
If you burnt the clutch, you would have smelt it (like when you are hard on disc brakes). If you smelled this smell for more then about 30 secconds, you caused some damage. You would need to smell it for atleast 3 minutes I would assume to "burn" a clutch out.
I'm make believe
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,587
From: In my head
Lol, the clutch seems fine. Sounds like it's a fwd with an 02j which doesn't want to go into first unless you are at a stop. There doesn't seEm to be anything wrong with the car. I have this trans in my TT and TDI and it's the same way. If the car is rolling, you don't need first gear anyway.
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