HOW MANY MILES did you replace CLUTCH???

[PorscheDoc]

Originally Posted by Ghostrider 310

Randall,

I don't want any bad blood with anyone, if you say the clutch lasted 250K I'm ok with that. My dad had a car dealership for 40 years, most of what we sold was standard shift. The longest I ever saw anyone get from one clutch of combined highway and city driving was 87,000.

peace,

GR310

Uh, wow is all i can say. I take it every one of his customers brought their cars back to him for new clutches? How about all the cars that didn't come back for clutch jobs? I have put 150k on clutches without any problems. I just replaced my tranny in my truck last year, it had 140k on the clock and original clutch with plenty of life left....but its a while you are in there thing.....

With that being said, clutch life all depends on the driver, not the car. Cars like a 996 and boxster are going to be driven harder ON AVERAGE than your standard VW jetta or 4x4 truck, etc, so you might expect them to have a shorter average life span. We have replaced clutches at 30k miles, and have replaced clutches at 70k miles, and have stock cars with 80-90k miles that still have the original clutch. Just depends on how it is driven. Now you start putting down a lot of horsepower into a car that is driven hard, then the clutches are usually ready for an upgrade around 50k miles without question. We just replaced a 98 996 clutch with 40k miles on it, with a guy that drives the car very very hard. Clutch disc was fine, but he bent the pressure plate, so it was not releasing properly.

[chrisg]

[QUOTE=PorscheDoc) We just replaced a 98 996 clutch with 40k miles on it, with a guy that drives the car very very hard. Clutch disc was fine, but he bent the pressure plate, so it was not releasing properly.[/QUOTE]

Hey Doc,
I've got 37k on mine (35K by po) and it has a slight shudder from rest in first, most times, not always, and I've always thought(from past experience) !*&#!*, pressure plate or flywheel, but dealer tech said don't worry about it. Any opinions ? Kinda bugs me.

[C5150]

Boggtown - slippage is exactly as it sounds - slippage. Your RPMs rise, but your acceleration doesn't, cause your clutch is no longer catching. Gets worse as it goes on, until you can have the clutch completely engaged, and you go nowhere. Hope this helps - Anyone care to give a better description?

- C5150

[TriGem2k]

[QUOTE=chrisg]

Originally Posted by PorscheDoc) We just replaced a 98 996 clutch with 40k miles on it, with a guy that drives the car very very hard. Clutch disc was fine, but he bent the pressure plate, so it was not releasing properly.[/QUOTE

Hey Doc,
I've got 37k on mine (35K by po) and it has a slight shudder from rest in first, most times, not always, and I've always thought(from past experience) !*&#!*, pressure plate or flywheel, but dealer tech said don't worry about it. Any opinions ? Kinda bugs me.

Mine does the same thing, always periodic but frequent. It is actually the Dual Mass Flywheel. Stupid dealer didn't inform me of this until AFTER I had already replaced the clutch so I just left it. It chatters on take off and I get a vibration at 3-4k RPMs. According to the dealer it’s nothing that’s serious just annoying. I'll have it fixed next time I have the clutch changed.

My original clutch was actually never really worn out but I had them replace it while performing the RMS repair. Car had 27K miles, now at 49K.

[wvicary]

Many factors are involved with clutch life. We replaced a customers clutch on his VW Eurovan at just shy of 900,000 km's.... all highway miles and we have serviced the vehicle since new. On the other hand we replaced a customers clutch after only one week of use, it turns out he was starting out in 3rd gear all the time in his VW Golf.

There is no said rule of thumb when it comes to clutch life.... when it starts togo south just replace it.

[mn box s]

Shuttering (sp?) is commonly your throw-out bearing see if its only when engaged or disengaged. That or a glazed fly.I bought my boxster @ 50,000 I still have to replace my brakes, @52k I did the 60k maintanence. @ 54k my clutch started slipping (in the strangest way I have ever incountered in a vehicle) it would slip at 5000 rpms catch at 5600 drop back to about 5100 and not slip again pulling through the rest of the revs. I didnt think it was the clutch but it was. replaced the dual stage fly and clutch at a porsche shop. (not dealer) I think all said and done it was 2400 bucs. Works great at 60k and the clutch still engages near the floor. Hope this helps!