Excuse my noob question, when you burn through your clutch or it starts slipping due to a tune, do you have to replace flywheel and clutch (usually)?
I want to get a tune, but I'm afraid of roasting through my clutch.
Depends on how soon you catch the clutch slipping. Slipping indicates a lack of friction between the disk and flywheel or pressure plate. BUT it also generates heat because of the forced rotation of the clutch against the flywheel.
In my case I knew exactly what was going on as soon as I saw the rpms rise and fall. I drove easy from then on out.
Others may havent noticed it, or are driving hard on it anyway.
One of the things that the technician at APR...(big shoutout to Adam Cobb BTW GREAT GUY AND GREAT WORK!) said to look for is the dark purple spots on the flywheel (heat affected areas) where the flywheel was scrubbing against. We took a light and went over the fly and found none. Surface was good..not grooved or discolored.
Like I said before, my situation was/is a little different...the car is so new, it doesnt have the normal wear and tear a slightly older one may have.
BUT, Keffer VW could hook you up with the needed parts more than likely if you needed to get a new flywheel.