My Panda 4x4 twinair started to mis-behave last week . My wife and I were struggling to get it into gear but only sometimes and if it was too difficult we could stop altogether and it would slip into gear again. I right pain. So I asked the local garage to take a look and they cam up with a few theories most of which involved the clutch but couldn't explain the intermittent nature of the problem.
When they took the clutch apart they could see that the DMF was at fault. The whole plate and bearing had shifted slightly so that that the inner bearing (or race) had worn eccentrically into a more "egg" shape than circular.
The whole thing was replaced and it's working fine now but it got me thinking what could have caused this? Can I blame my wife's driving or the previous owners (though they had only done 10k in it, my wife has done 50k miles) or is it more likely to be a design fault or dodgy part.
Thanks for any advice
Jon
When they took the clutch apart they could see that the DMF was at fault. The whole plate and bearing had shifted slightly so that that the inner bearing (or race) had worn eccentrically into a more "egg" shape than circular.
The whole thing was replaced and it's working fine now but it got me thinking what could have caused this? Can I blame my wife's driving or the previous owners (though they had only done 10k in it, my wife has done 50k miles) or is it more likely to be a design fault or dodgy part.
Thanks for any advice
Jon