How to replace clutch and flywheel, 2.0tdi VW Sharan/SEAT Alhambra 

Thanks 👍 That's the power of video editing 😁

I think I'm going to do what you did too. I really don't feel like buying an engine harness I can't find anywhere to rent

Wow! Thank you :) Such a pleasure to see this appreciation.

Thanks Tony, glad if it helps someone :)

You're very welcome Johnny! What a coincidence, I also just replaced clutch for another time for this Sharan (he's on 420.000 miles now). I had a pain to do it twice in a row! On Tuesday I fitted new clutch and flywheel, put it back together just to find out that I'm not going anywhere because clutch isn't working! Next day I took it apart again and realised that clutch kit was wrong, got another one from GSF, luckily flywheel was correct... Two days - two clutches! I'm in pain now 🤪

@@wawayltd Damn, I feel your pain brother, hang in there =)

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@@wawayltd I didn't have to take my gearbox out completely because I got to the slave cylinder anyway. But gosh, what a job it was. I admire those of you who took the whole box out. 😁😉

Good exercise 💪

Thanks David 👍 "Reservoir" is too French for me 😁 I need to master English first 🤓

Just keep on with your sense of humour. Best tool in life

Was thinking the same thing when he paused 😅

Thank You very much, I will do my best. Comments like this warm my soul 😊

@@wawayltd videos like yours warm my cars souls 😁 thanks again buddy!

Thanks 👍 And Thanks for the advice!

I've replaced clutch on this car again (330K miles). This time I dropped subframe for easier manoeuvres of gearbox. That worked.

Thanks Roy :) As for tools - I'm a bit obsessed with them. love to collect them anyway :)

Throw away? Never!

Thanks David :) And well done - in 8 hours..

Wow! Thank You very much 😊👍

WheelsAndMotors please promise me you and your wife will open up a garage business in no time you done a phenomenal work great content excellent effects I can’t believe I watched a whole video from start to finish cause you made it so interesting ❤️🤩😃

Thank you, you made me shy. ☺ Actually I'm not good for the garage, I'm too slow, taking my time kissing every bolt... That video took 4 days to film (my T-shirt colour changed few times during video 😁). I didn't have electricity in the garage and daylight was too short. I'd rather concentrate on my website - it needs lot of improvement and some significant change in general. We'll get there eventually 😉

WheelsAndMotors I wish you both best of faith and health and kind regards

Trust me you have fooled many out there with a 2 hour clutch job 🤩😜🤣

Thanks Kevin! Lost temper and failures can be eliminated with magic of video editing, however I admit - it was fun to do, and I'm glad if it helps someone 😊

I'm too slow for a mecahnic 😁 You're very welcome 👍

Thanks Peter! 😊

True!

You're very welcome, glad if it helped! I had the same issue with the gear change. You're right, its the linkage, cables that come from selector, the one that you have to twist and turn to disconnect - as you connect it, push it in deeper.

Thanks Alex 😎👍

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Thanks for good advice. I was struggling with those bolts :)

Good thinking! 👍

Easy peasy 😎

@@wawayltd I thought "easy peasy" but no! My drive shafts have metal covers over the area where yours have the bolts exposed. Any ideas? Mine is a 2008 Tiguan 4-Motion.

So, a bit more "Googling" and it seems my drive shafts just pull out and held in place by an internal clip. There's a first for everything I guess

I thought all VWs had bolts on their driveshafts...

Thanks 😎👍

Thanks Tim, check the website too 😊👍

Thanks Ray :)

Thank You very much 😷👍

Thanks 😊👍

I was thinking this would be similar for my 2011 Volkswagen Jetta 2.0 tdi with DSG automatic 6 speed. Torque specs and steps pretty much identical, is That’s correct? I also have a 2007 Volkswagen GTI manual. 🙂

DSG is different, maybe you take gearbox off in a similar way, but the rest is very different.

Thanks Dani 🙂👍

Thanks Nicolici! Glad if it helps 😊👍

Oh yeah, once you get on - it's not that scary. You're welcome 👍

@@wawayltd Ive had good luck finding everything i'll need except that tool you used to clamp off the clutch hydrolic line. What is that called? Thanks again, you are great

Try these: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B013JYE6DK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_YBLjFbDP781W2

Thank you :)

Thanks! Maybe just because I'm not really a mechanic 😁

Wow! Sorry you have such a disaster..

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You're very welcome Javaid, glad if it helps 😊👍

Thanks Mike :)

Thank you :)

You're very welcome :)

You're very welcome 😊. Maybe that's because Fiesta and Focus had smaller gearboxes... Don't know. Glad if it helps 👍

Thank You Fahad! Pleasure to see such appreciation :)

Hahahhaha was just showing my misses - he's my hero too 😂😂😂

Thank you :) There will be more...

Thank you :)

WheelsAndMotors In the UK we replace four times as many flywheels as anywhere else in Europe. A DMF is designed to last the life of the car. As is a clutch, but people abuse clutches through bad driving. Unless the flywheel is knocking, I don't replace. You need to raise car higher to remove gearbox, as the method you use of lowering gearboxe then engine risks bending input shaft

Paul Passat Thank you for your comment. I will blame the car parts store guy - he convinced me to replace flywheel, although there are some bad stories on Internet forums + I didn't know the brand and I wanted to do it in one go. I agree about lowering - perhaps I should have lower it as low as I can straight away. But unfortunately, size of my garage doesn't alow me to raise this Sharan any higher - that was max - it was sticking into top shelves with its roof railings :)

You're very welcome ☺

Randomly watching clutch replacement? 😉

@@wawayltd too much free time with this lockdown... It started with looking at EGR and DPF for my TDI, few videos later, I ended up here.

Dear Farid thank you very much for all these nice words! I don't think I would be able to tell exact measurements, like degrees of engine tilt. When I lift the engine - I look how far I can lift so I don't brake anything, when I lower it, I think it was as far as engine support beam allowed me and of course look around as you have things that are still connected and sticking out of the engine. As for lifting the car, I have 2 trolley jacks that have maximum hight of 52cm. I didn't lift them to the maximum - if I do my garage hight will not allow me open bonnet. The higher you can get is the better. That jack adaptor you see in the video is too high and didn't allow me to simply lower gearbox that's why I had to improvise. The trickiest part is put the gearbox back - you definitely need a second person. The car in the video is on 422.000 miles now. By now I have replaced clutch 2 more times. When I did second time, I removed subframe (I have a video about subframe too). It was advised by someone in comments. There was much more space for moving gearbox around and you don't need to play "tetris". However on my third time I decided that removing subframe doesn't give as much advantage as it gives extra hassle. And few more things. When you put driveshaft back into wheel hub, all that hitting you see in the video with a hammer is not necessary. I'm going to cut it out. Simply move brake disc up and down to align splines. Also on my last clutch change I ordered parts from AutoDoc. Flywheel was ok, but the clutch pressure plate and friction disc where wrong. When I fitted it I didn't pay attention that it was too tight fit, I reassembled everything to find out that clutch doesn't work. So I had great pleasure to do clutch twice in 2 days as I bought correct parts locally from GSF. Don't do my mistake - make sure parts are correct! When you reconnect gear selector cables, that connection that you twist and turn - make sure you put it in all the way, otherwise gear selection won't be as smooth. When you done - try it first with wheels off the ground. I'm glad I did it when I fitted wrong clutch. Good luck! It's a bit fiddly, but it's doable (not a rocket science 😉)

@@wawayltd thanks so much for your time with all these precious details. Take care

You're welcome 👍 Please check the website as well.

Thanks :)

Thank you, Andre :)

Thanks Craig :) I'll make some more about that car.

I have no valuables at my house, apart from my Mrs. If she gets stolen, she'll come back.. eventually 😏

Thanks JD 😊👍

Thanks Mark :) It's not that scary once you get your hands around it.

Thanks Anton 👍 My dad's name is also Anton, by the way 😏

I knew what I was doing 13 years ago ;)

You can do it, Andrew! :)

I deactivate my start/stop system. Since I have done that video this car has done another 190.000 miles (it's 330K now). So just replaced flywheel and clutch again. This time I dropped subframe for easier manoeuvres of gearbox.

I think I will do the same deactivate my stop start too and take my day time lights off too

@@anamulhussain1635 What's wrong with the daylights?

@@wawayltd they stay on all the time plus I don't like them lol

@@anamulhussain1635 They are there for safety reasons. In some countries it's illegal to drive without them - cars that don't have day lights have to put dipped beam on..

Thanks Francisco! One day I'll have a good garage 🤓

​@@wawayltd I'm sure you will as you are very professional when working. I'm not sure offical mechanics will do better then you. By the way I have a question for you... You never work with impact wrenches or cordless tools that will ease some srewing/unscrewing steps after you break it lose. Any reason for that? Thanks for you reply.

I'm too slow for professional mechanic, it's all magic of video editing 😁 As for power tools, I have some now - I use them in my latest videos. I don't do many new videos recently, because I'm working on a completely new version of my website, plus I have to do my normal job (taxi) to pay my bills .. Thanks for all your nice wishes, I'll do my best to get this WheelsAndMotors going 👍

Sounds good! Thanks for having took the time to reply me.

Thanks for 😊👍

Thanks Phil, glad if it helps 👍

Wow! Thanks Ross 😷👍

I'm not really a mechanic, but thanks 🙃

Wow! Thank you for this comment! Why did I struggle and didn't think about that? So much easier to align splines when the other end is loose. I can't change the video now, but I will put it into description, also add this info to the website page about it. Thanks again! :)

Thanks for the advice and nice words about the video :) By the way, how should I check clutch without starting the engine - just change gears?

Should be able to bleed the clutch without the engine being on. Just loosen the slave cylinder nozzle and pump the clutch.

You're very welcome!

Thanks :) Hope it helps.

WheelsAndMotors what symptoms did you get that the flywheel was bad by the way? I have a rattling noise and a slight engine shake now and then? Thanks

My flywheel was ok actually. The only reason I replaced it... Actually there were 2 reasons :) First - I heard some bad stories about flywheel falling apart, because apparently they recommended to be changed together with clutch. Not everyone agrees to that, I had comment below saying that it's a waste of money to change flywheel for no reason and they meant to last long... Second reason - I didn't know what brand I had before I took it apart, didn't know if it matches, so decided to put all new. In my previous car - Audi, I had problems with flywheel. I had bad judder when moving off or even going from 1st to 2nd. I think it happens when on dual-mass springs don't work anymore.

WheelsAndMotors ok thank you for the reply. :)

Thank you :)

Thanks! There will be more, much more :)

Thanks for your input. Valuable info - I didn't know about the oil..

Wheels and motors. Thank you for the video. Do a search on all of the issues these transmissions have had with oil being too thick / single mass flywheels and synchros getting ate.

Thanks Rhys :)

You're welcome :)

You're welcome, glad if it helps 👍

Hopefully one day I won't be :))

If your car is Euro 6 (engine number starts with "D") then it's a little different and tools required are also different. I have Euro 6 Skoda 1.6tdi When it will come to cambelt change - I'll make a video on that as well.

Thank you for this info,I will be sure to check everything carefully first. It's a 2 Ltr TDI,business edition, fantastic car.Clutch is OK at the moment,110,000 miles on the clock,so when the time comes I'll be ready with the spanners. Well done and thanks again.👍🤩

Ops. Sorry mate, I thought we are talking about cambelt video.. 😁 Yeah, clutch should be fairly similar.

Thanks :)

Thank you Osman 😊👍

Thanks so much! 😊

You're very welcome Big Lion - glad if it helps :)

Thanks Mr Hacker :) Glad if it helps..

You're welcome Marin :)

You have manual or automatic?

@@hardcore4476 manual

@@marinzinca A automatic shouldn’t be much different you suppose? It’s pretty’s much just a heavier DSG instead of gearbox setup similar and less steps I’d imagine with flywheel being one whole unit.

That clutch by now has done more than 100.000 miles and still feels ok.

You're welcome! Please check relevant info on my website (link in description)

Thanks 👍 4 days of filming 😁

Thanks for the advice 👍

Thanks! The car in the video is on 420.000 miles now. Since then I replaced clutch 2 more times. Very last one I ordered it from Autodoc, flywheel was ok, but clutch kit wasn't suitable, so I ordered another one locally from GSF. In the future I'll be buying locally - GSF, Euros (with their discounts on "Click&Collect") or TPS. And my top priority - we have a good independent garage for VW parts in Bristol - VWS Car Parts.

Thank you :) I don't think there's a big difference with Touran, providing it' manual and depends what year it is. I have a comment below where someone saying that he changed clutch on his VW Golf Mk5.

Easy after video editing 😁. Still not too difficult..

@@wawayltd so i did the job and now have to bleed the clutch. Which bleeder tool should i get? Is it the type that couples to the brake fluid reservoir and pressurizes that?

Yes. That's the one I've used in the video.

Thanks

Thank you :) I might try that when I'll have to change clutch next time.. Although, my fight with that gearbox was so tough, so it feels like every cubic cm of free space is valuable :)

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Good luck with your clutch Dave... and helper ;)

I believe actual removing would be pretty similar, but gearbox is very different - clutch stays on gearbox side.

Thanks! Someone with Mk5 Golf said it was similar.

You're welcome 😊

Thanks Matt, I'll try my best to keep it going. 😊

I think if after reaching 20Nm, you turn another 90°, total torque value could be about 100Nm. Also torque values differ whether it's aluminium or steel arm.

@@wawayltd thank you for you video it will help me a lot. Good job. Congratulations.

You're very welcome 👍