13 Reg 2.0tdi - flywheel given up?

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dafad_dew
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Passat model: b7

13 Reg 2.0tdi - flywheel given up?

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Hi,

A few days ago, my 13 reg 2.0TDI started making dull knocking sounds when the clutch was up, centred around 1300 revs. Apart from this, went fine. Took it for a 1 mile run earlier today, and just arriving back home, the noise stopped, then turned into a random (louder) knocking - like a small stone loose in the gearbox/transmission that occasionally got tossed about. It's gone 65k miles, and got full VW service history.
Doesn't sound good to me - and possibly like the dreaded DMF, but I'm also not very clued up, so that may be completely wrong!

Seems pretty poor to me that it's happened though :-(

So dilemma is, do I
a) take it to local, trusted, indie garage to fix, or
b) get VW breakdown to take it to my local VW garage which is 15 miles away
Am I likely to get any goodwill toward this - it's over 4 1/2 years old? Or will it be viewed as a "wear and tear"? And if VW come up with some massive estimate for a fix, will I end up with a big problem/bill getting it back 15 miles to be done by my local garage.

Any thoughts/suggestions welcome!!!
DD.
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