[mckpat03]

Just did a bunch of maintenance on my car the weekend before last. Oil and filter, fuel filter, cabin filter, fresh stock engine mounts. I was going to put helper bags in the rear springs, but didn't get around to it. All of this, along with the hitch a while back, in preparation to make a return trip to Daytona for the Rolex 24 Hour.

Sadly, right after all that maintenance, I'm pretty sure my flywheel started rattling and making a bunch of noise. So, while I'm still daily driving the car, I'm not risking the flywheel fully failing somewhere in the middle of our 2000 mile round trip drive. Called an audible and found another vehicle to take and I'll further diagnose and **** with the flywheel after Daytona.

If it is 100% the flywheel, it'll probably get an uprated South Bend clutch, to future-proof it regarding power, and a fresh dual mass flywheel (these common rail TDIs have ****ty synchros that go bad with a single mass flywheel).