The Polo GTI or VAG 1.8T’s stock clutch in general, won’t last long once the car has been reflashed. Based on what I’ve seen and heard, burnt clutch has already started to occur as early as 20k kms on some cars. And having just surpassed 45k kms, I wouldn’t want to wait till it slips and burnt and that’s why I can’t wait any longer to get it replaced.
Last Thursday morning, I managed to take some time off and have the car sent to Kawa Koshi Auto Air-Cond Service in Kepong at 11.00am, gave Peter (the owner) all the parts and fluids to get the job done; and then shoot back to office using taxi.
Kawa Koshi is highly recommended by Jed (Polo GTI owner) given their fair share in handling Polo GTI from simple oil change to upgrade works including clutch installations. While they’re not VW specialist from my point of view, their attention to detail and TLC surpass any mechanics I’ve seen and majority of car owners that I knew (and I’m one of them!). Hence you can imagine all the hype.
After getting some things done at my work place, I came back to the workshop around 5.00pm and found out that clutch installation just completed and they’re proceeding on the rest. Unfortunately, 10 minutes past, heavy thunderstorm rain just came down and that delays the progress. Oh well….
Somewhere around 7.00pm-ish, they restart the works. Everything went smoothly except lots of time taken on the steel braided lines. Plugging out the old and in the new ones is not exactly “plug & play” and this took them closed to 2 hours. And the one I though is tedious, injectors’ o-rings job took merely 5 minutes. As needle passed 10.00pm, all is done!
For the amount of works done on the car, you just wouldn’t believe the amount I had to pay. 6 hours job for the entire works with 4 foremen including Peter cost me less than RM400. Yes, it’s not exactly pocket change money but honestly I certainly feel it’s bang for buck given their positive approach during the entire process. And although I live somewhere 40kms up north, I wouldn’t mind sending the Pocong there again and again.
Upon getting back the keys and crank it up, I sensed that the gear chatter noise (because of lighter single mass flywheel) is more prominent inside the car than from the outside. Weird but that’s all that I can whine about as the rest of it feels rejuvenated, energetic and much more responsive from low-to-mid range and I haven’t fully nail the throttle yet! Even so, the ESP was awkwardly busy toning down the power on 2nd and 3rd!
While I realise these sort of refreshments doesn’t come cheap but in motorhead’s way of thinking, it’s well worth the pain! And I can wait to go out for shiok sendiri sunday drive tomorrow :)
Last Thursday morning, I managed to take some time off and have the car sent to Kawa Koshi Auto Air-Cond Service in Kepong at 11.00am, gave Peter (the owner) all the parts and fluids to get the job done; and then shoot back to office using taxi.
Kawa Koshi is highly recommended by Jed (Polo GTI owner) given their fair share in handling Polo GTI from simple oil change to upgrade works including clutch installations. While they’re not VW specialist from my point of view, their attention to detail and TLC surpass any mechanics I’ve seen and majority of car owners that I knew (and I’m one of them!). Hence you can imagine all the hype.
After getting some things done at my work place, I came back to the workshop around 5.00pm and found out that clutch installation just completed and they’re proceeding on the rest. Unfortunately, 10 minutes past, heavy thunderstorm rain just came down and that delays the progress. Oh well….
Somewhere around 7.00pm-ish, they restart the works. Everything went smoothly except lots of time taken on the steel braided lines. Plugging out the old and in the new ones is not exactly “plug & play” and this took them closed to 2 hours. And the one I though is tedious, injectors’ o-rings job took merely 5 minutes. As needle passed 10.00pm, all is done!
For the amount of works done on the car, you just wouldn’t believe the amount I had to pay. 6 hours job for the entire works with 4 foremen including Peter cost me less than RM400. Yes, it’s not exactly pocket change money but honestly I certainly feel it’s bang for buck given their positive approach during the entire process. And although I live somewhere 40kms up north, I wouldn’t mind sending the Pocong there again and again.
Upon getting back the keys and crank it up, I sensed that the gear chatter noise (because of lighter single mass flywheel) is more prominent inside the car than from the outside. Weird but that’s all that I can whine about as the rest of it feels rejuvenated, energetic and much more responsive from low-to-mid range and I haven’t fully nail the throttle yet! Even so, the ESP was awkwardly busy toning down the power on 2nd and 3rd!
While I realise these sort of refreshments doesn’t come cheap but in motorhead’s way of thinking, it’s well worth the pain! And I can wait to go out for shiok sendiri sunday drive tomorrow :)
Stock clutch disc seems ok though
Stock dual-mass flywheel. 15-18kg easily...
New slotted rotors for the rear
Old plained rotors (skimmed) vs Slotted/Drilled rotors
Stock PFR6Q plugs, Pocong better off with BKR7E even though it's copper base
ECS Steel Braided Lines is shorter than original, need to use the inside route to make it fit
Rear brakes after Peter's detailing job done.....
