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Posted by TheMoneyPit (more from TheMoneyPit) on Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:16:16 Share Post by Email
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Here's a scenario for y'all to ponder:

1995 900S 5 speed, babied, all maintenance done as needed at dealer, no racing, garaged, oil every 3k miles...

Clutch at 65k miles (significant other's commute is 20 miles one way, all stoplights and traffic lights). Only symptom was slippage. At time of clutch replacement, also replaced fork sleeve (unknown to us). Work done almost OK, except missed an alignment pin in linkage and could not get to reverse. The pin was properly set and all was good. Sort of. I noticed a slight cluch 'chatter' but very slight, as I said, nothing major. Flywheel was NOT resurfaced.

A year later, fork sleeve starts leaking. Replaced without incident. Only symptoms was a very slight oil leak and some or vibration on the clutch pedal. Replaced.

Six months later, with the mileage at 90k, within a span of a few weeks I noticed the shifter became really poor shifting. Like filling the shifter with sand. Also notchy. Then I lost reverse, and 1st. No slippage, 2-3-4 work fine. Limp to dealer again. The verdict:

Throwout bearing had gone bad. That was not the whole thing; upon further investigation, the flywheel had bad spots, and the springs on the pressure plate had gone 'limp'. Also, excessive play of clutch cable. The remedy was another clutch kit, plus resurface flywheel.. The dealer gave a decent discount on labor, but that was it. No explanation.

The last 25k miles was all me driving on a highway, 3 traffic lights in 30 miles. I've been driving stick shift cars since 1985, and generally get 100-110k between clutches.

My question. What would have caused the failure (catastrophic) of the clutch? This is not wear and tear... Could something else had 'given' and taken the clutch with it? The car drove fine, no slippage, etc.

Any ideas?


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