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Caring for your DMF

  • 21-05-2021 9:07pm
    #1
    Ce he sin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭


    I've been driving a Focus with the 125bhp petrol triple for the past year. Its engine management system controls the revs to such an extent that you can start even on a hill without touching the accelerator and it's flexible enough that you can follow the advice of the gearchange indicator and engage sixth from about 65 kmh. All well and good.
    Now though I learn that it has a DMF, something I had only associated with diesels, and that DMFs don't like really low revs. So, will my driving style see off the DMF even earlier than usual?


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  • #2
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I wouldn’t really follow the advice of the gear shift indicator too strictly tbh. It’s only concern is to improve mpg on paper and is not to be trusted over your own gut instinct.


  • #3
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    I'd just drive it as normal.

    Dual mass flywheels in general dont give as much bother as they did years ago when they first started giving trouble in diesels. You'd rarely, if ever hear or one failing in a petrol car as they are generally smoother and less torquey engines than a comparable diesel in the same car.

    It's not low revs they dont like, low revs are fine in the correct gear. It's low revs in too high a gear or "lugging" that gets them.

    I'd honestly just not woeey about it in that particular example of car though.


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