Howdy all,
I've got a 2001 Jetta 1.9 tdi manual. It's got about 280,000.
A few miles back the clutch master failed and in the process of limping it home the clutch plate was destroyed (not by me!). I replaced it. Recently there has been a chatter in neutral (and presuably when in gear as well, but hard to hear because of engine noise) when the clutch is out which stops as soon as you push the clutch in. Now there was some major leakage under the hood which I finally tracked down so I assumed that something had gotten wet and was starting to get tired. I've read that possibly this was a DMF problem. Shifting into some gears (mostly first) has been a little clunky as well, but not difficult, feel a little bump when moving the stick in.
But that's not the problem. Last week my wife said the clunk was getting worse and then she got stranded. The symptoms are strange. She claimed that she couldn't shift through at all, but now that it's home, I can start the car (clutch in) and move the stick through the gears ... they 'feel' alrigtht and the cable isn't broken--open the hood and the doohickey on top of the transmission moves like normal. When you let the pedal out you can feel the clutch start to grab, but the car doesn't move at all. At first I thought it was stuck in some high gear, but no amount of gas has any effect. It doesn't feel like a car stalling out because the gear is too high, but more like the shaft inside the transmission is broken and wont turn at all.
So my question is, what could this be and is it worth even fixing it? The interior of the car is showing a lot of wear ... that old dash plastic is pretty gummy and bits and pieces are always breaking off. Fine for me probably but the other half has a lower tolerance for 'you can't pull on that handle or it will break off' usage patterns. Of course I just replaced the brake booster (that leak mentioned above) and put on new tires. Even full of diesel the car is probably work less than $1000 so it that's what it will take to fix this, well ...
Any thoughts appreciated.
I've got a 2001 Jetta 1.9 tdi manual. It's got about 280,000.
A few miles back the clutch master failed and in the process of limping it home the clutch plate was destroyed (not by me!). I replaced it. Recently there has been a chatter in neutral (and presuably when in gear as well, but hard to hear because of engine noise) when the clutch is out which stops as soon as you push the clutch in. Now there was some major leakage under the hood which I finally tracked down so I assumed that something had gotten wet and was starting to get tired. I've read that possibly this was a DMF problem. Shifting into some gears (mostly first) has been a little clunky as well, but not difficult, feel a little bump when moving the stick in.
But that's not the problem. Last week my wife said the clunk was getting worse and then she got stranded. The symptoms are strange. She claimed that she couldn't shift through at all, but now that it's home, I can start the car (clutch in) and move the stick through the gears ... they 'feel' alrigtht and the cable isn't broken--open the hood and the doohickey on top of the transmission moves like normal. When you let the pedal out you can feel the clutch start to grab, but the car doesn't move at all. At first I thought it was stuck in some high gear, but no amount of gas has any effect. It doesn't feel like a car stalling out because the gear is too high, but more like the shaft inside the transmission is broken and wont turn at all.
So my question is, what could this be and is it worth even fixing it? The interior of the car is showing a lot of wear ... that old dash plastic is pretty gummy and bits and pieces are always breaking off. Fine for me probably but the other half has a lower tolerance for 'you can't pull on that handle or it will break off' usage patterns. Of course I just replaced the brake booster (that leak mentioned above) and put on new tires. Even full of diesel the car is probably work less than $1000 so it that's what it will take to fix this, well ...
Any thoughts appreciated.