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clutch failure 6 months out of warranty

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  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,994 Forumite
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    Thats less than my ex MIL. She got over 5000 miles out of hers before she killed the 2nd one.

    6000rpm reversing off the drive every morning.. Poor car..
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  • Retrogamer
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    Hintza wrote: »
    But that is not the problem the OP reported.

    That isn't a problem though that you responded to. That's a potential cause of the problem.
    The OP only mentioned the clutch failed.

    It could either be a manufacturing defect or down to poor driving.
    You can wreck a clutch in the space of a few minutes if you really wanted.

    I've seen a few people reversing out of car parks with the engines at 4000+rpm, riding the clutch and smoke pouring out the gearbox.
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  • Strider590
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    Retrogamer wrote: »
    That isn't a problem though that you responded to. That's a potential cause of the problem.
    The OP only mentioned the clutch failed.

    It could either be a manufacturing defect or down to poor driving.
    You can wreck a clutch in the space of a few minutes if you really wanted.

    I've seen a few people reversing out of car parks with the engines at 4000+rpm, riding the clutch and smoke pouring out the gearbox.

    OAPs bless em, they think that in reverse gear you have to rev the nuts off it.
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  • fivetide
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    forgotmyname wrote: »
    Thats less than my ex MIL. She got over 5000 miles out of hers before she killed the 2nd one.

    6000rpm reversing off the drive every morning.. Poor car..


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  • Strider590
    Strider590 Posts: 11,874 Forumite
    fivetide wrote: »
    One careful lady owner....

    Exactly.... :rotfl:
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  • Hintza
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    Retrogamer wrote: »
    The OP only mentioned the clutch failed.

    No the OP said the clutch plate was in bits.
  • Retrogamer
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    Hintza wrote: »
    No the OP said the clutch plate was in bits.

    Again, we don't know the cause of the failure. Only what the failure is. i.e the clutch has failed and it's in bits.
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  • iolanthe07
    iolanthe07 Posts: 5,493 Forumite
    Retrogamer wrote: »
    Again, we don't know the cause of the failure. Only what the failure is. i.e the clutch has failed and it's in bits.

    It might be in bits through abuse, for all we know.
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  • Retrogamer
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    Exactly.

    A lot of modern cars seem to be a lot less forgiving if driven badly. If the garage check the flywheel they will get a good idea if it's been down to poor clutch control or not.
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  • GolfBravo
    GolfBravo Posts: 1,090 Forumite
    edited 11 July 2013 at 3:26PM
    £500 for a new clutch? Tell 'em they're dreamin'!

    My wife's shopping buggy C5 2.0HDi DMF died last week (it was a slow and painful/noisy process), 95K miles.

    New clutch kit (clutch disc, pressure plate, bearing), new DMF + bolts, wheel alignment (they had to drop the subframe) £493 all in, and it took 4 hours. Non-franchised garage, OEM parts (LUK).
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