Well Thanks! For the PM Hyde
I will start this off by saying that I am an Aerospace Designer and my car nut friend is an Aerospace Engineer and we work together on various projects. He owns a Cobra GT500 Mustang that he has heavily modified and is producing over 800hp at the wheels. With that being said we feel stupid looking at the MKVI's self adjusting PP. LOL
I ordered the SB Stage 3 drop in disk, because I had the typical 5th gear slippage, even though I read what seemed to be a lot of failure due possibly to an incorrect PP adjustment reset.
We tore my car down (2012 MKVI 20,000 miles) and we just could not get ourselves to put it back together with the new disk. We both felt that the problem was the PP not the disk. The stock disk was still thicker that the replacement and there seemed to be very little wear on it. After spending hours trying to reset the adjustment ring on the stock PP we said F it. I found this tech video on how it works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3xm...e_gdata_player and I just could not get myself to want to reuse it as it did not seem like it could be "reset"
I am returning the drop in disk and I am having Jon at SB next day a cryo'd Stage 2 endurance full kit. It is a new design with an updated spring. I have read a lot of the failure threads and see where people that have had the failures have bastardized their next setup and then still blamed SB. I will be more than happy to share any problems that come up and eat my words if I am wrong. I bought my car on the last week of May 2012 and put on about 3700 miles per month, so I will find out quick how long it will last.
So put me in for a Cryo'd 2013 SB Stage 2 Endurance Silent, maybe add the year to it and see if SB has maybe turned it around.
I am Stage 1 and will go Stage 2 as soon as I break in this clutch that will be installed by weeks end.
Also, I called VW and asked if I could buy a new OEM PP and I was told that they needed my Vin# to make sure I got the correct one. His reason was because there are more than one for the MKVI. I declined to give my vin just in case I was going to be entered into the "who's been modded" list.