Mr Clutch - good, bad, ok?

nash1977

My car needs a new clutch and dual mass flywheel. Mr Clutch are the cheapest £760, with garages quoting around £850-900.

I have never used a chain so would appreciate your opinions.

Nodding_Donkey

I've known people use them without problems but I thought they were usually rather expensive. Are the other quotes from independents or main dealers?

nash1977

The quotes are from independents

Car_Complaints

Clutch centres normally tell you that the flywheel needs skimming, which is normally a load of rubbish, being as your having a Dual Mass fitted then you should be ok...unless they try and !!!!!! you for the hydraulics namely the slave cylinder.

Lomast

I used them on my Citroen Xsara (no DMF) as my mechanic recommended them as they did the whole lot for less than what he could get the parts for. I have heard people who have had issues with them but they did the job fine for me at a reasonable price and fairly quickly

bigjl

Car_Complaints wrote: »

Clutch centres normally tell you that the flywheel needs skimming, which is normally a load of rubbish, being as your having a Dual Mass fitted then you should be ok...unless they try and !!!!!! you for the hydraulics namely the slave cylinder.

Do you believe what you post?

Or just make it up completely?

It is fairly common for an old solid flywheel to need skimming, to ensure that the clutch is smooth on take up with no judders or excessive wear.

A moot point now we have DMF's on most cars as they should really be changed when you do the clutch. As they are a complicated bit of kit. And a slipping clutch or juddering clutch can cause them to wear prematurely.

When you mention hydraulics are you referring to concentric slaves cylinders?

Which should really be changed when you do the clutch aswell

I have used Mr Clutch a couple of times.

Both times they were ok. On one occasion the judder was still present, it was a warranty repair on a used Vectra V6 back in the 90's, and they changed the clutch without an issue.

They specialise on one thing mainly which means they can source parts cheaper than trade price as they can buy them for the price trade retailers buy them.

And when you do the same job every day yu can find ways to do the job quicker and therefore cheaper.

When i ran a garage back in the early 90's we had a mechanic that had figured out a way to change the cambelt on the Honda 2.5 and 2.7 V6 engines as fitted to the Rover 800 and Honda Legend.

Due to this we could undercut everybody else in the area.

Mr Clutch are no different.

They did the clutch on a mates Subaru Impreza and he was happy with the price and workmanship.

Car_Complaints

bigjl wrote: »

Do you believe what you post?

Or just make it up completely?

It is fairly common for an old solid flywheel to need skimming, to ensure that the clutch is smooth on take up with no judders or excessive wear.

You know it was only this morning that I thought to myself I must stop talking so much !!!!!! because clutch centres have never in my lifetime told a customer the flywheel needs doing, when it doesnt....how naive I must be,

I have lost count of how many clutches I have personally done, how many flywheels I have inspected and it certainly isnt as common as you make out,..its alot more common for a flywheel to need skimming when the car enters clutch centres

Bloody Hell you will have to stop me Im off making stuff up again

Must be contagious loads of people are making stuff up about Mr Clutch

http://goo.gl/0Ul7ji


So off you trot and have fun reading how fabulous Mr clutch are and I will reflect on the fact I am a born liar

andygb

I would never use them again, because the only two cars which I had to have clutches replaced, they said the flywheel was glazed through oil contamination, and the basic price then doubled.

buglawton

Aren't DMFs only on diesels? If so, reason enough to stick to petrol cars.

Car_Complaints

buglawton wrote: »

Aren't DMFs only on diesels?.

No in petrols too.

Ultrasonic

buglawton wrote: »

Aren't DMFs only on diesels? If so, reason enough to stick to petrol cars.

Increasingly on petrols too, but I believe DMFs are far more likely to fail on diesels which is ultimately what matters.