T4 Needs New Clutch....Reccomendations!

[Sunny43.5]

I think the reason the 2.0 litre petrol engines have the DMF is because VW dropped the 2.5 5 pot and the 4 pot would have problems pulling away with the heavy weight of the van fully loaded so they needed a way of getting the smooth transition from stop to go . Problem is that I personally believe the 4 pot was way too underpowered for a van of the T5 weight . I have found several times over the last ten years where the 4 pot was hard pressed to pull its fat arse up some steep driveways . One particular one in the hinterland of the Gold Coast took me about five attempts to get the van back onto the road !! I tried reversing failed miserably and then I tried forwards took many attempts but the final method was to back the van into the owners garden bed of flowers lots of throttle and make a running go at it front wheels scrabbling for grip in the dirt and then when it hit the concrete lots of smoking clutch and then only just made it out . In my mind it was a VW failure because if the van was loaded with the allowable weight it would still be there today !! I would hate to think how much the springs inside the DMF were compressed with those attempts , not saying that a solid one would have done it any better but at least the springs would not have been damaged .