"Bill" wrote in message
tairs...
With the first Octavia, I was planning to get the DMF changed to a proper
flywheel (Skoda do one for taxis), but other things went wrong, so I
traded it in. We still have the newer one and at just over 100k miles, the
"feature" is there, but liveable with.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a dual mass flywheel?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-mass_flywheel seems to imply that with a
high-torque-at-low-revs engine (a diesel) a DMF is highly desirable to
absorb some of the peaks in the torque as each cylinder fires. Is the
disadvantage mainly that it is more complex and therefore more costly?