I thought some cars have lower intervals than others.
clutch gone, 5 months of ownership
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I thought some cars have lower intervals than others.
It's a used car and a clutch is a wear and tear item. Sure some last way more than 72K but I've had cars that even with careful driving didn't last more than that. Really unlucky would be where the previous owners only did stop/start city driving or were driving instructors (30 - 40K more likely) so all told 70K plus isn't bad.
I consider previous owners when buying used. One of our cars did only 14K in 4 years so was obviously short trips probably around town and so high clutch wear. The other was a retired company director with lots of golf courses in the sat nav so a better use despite the higher mileage.
My old e36 318i was still in its factory clutch @175k equally I've known drivers at work kill clutches in brand new trucks within 200miles!
Predominantly down to how it's driven - excluding a manufacturing fault - when looking through my recently bought Corsa DTI's comprehensive dealer service history it's had five clutches in 146k miles all of them in the first keepers ownership, I presume whilst he serviced religiously at main dealers he didn't know how to use a clutch pedal!!
I imagine OP your out of luck on this, I'd be very surprised if you get a replacement as its a part that wears by design much like a brake pad.
Predominantly down to how it's driven - excluding a manufacturing fault - when looking through my recently bought Corsa DTI's comprehensive dealer service history it's had five clutches in 146k miles all of them in the first keepers ownership, I presume whilst he serviced religiously at main dealers he didn't know how to use a clutch pedal!!
I imagine OP your out of luck on this, I'd be very surprised if you get a replacement as its a part that wears by design much like a brake pad.
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^^ as above, My mondeo clutch lasted 50k (albeit with a 50% power hike) whilst my minibuses do do mostly motorway to airports and back are usually traded in at 3years and 350k miles on the factory clutch.
As per the above posts really. I guess the most you could go for (assuming the garage is honest) is that they do the work, and if it's just wear, you pay up, if it's another cause then they do.
To say that's a stretch is an understatement though, I think this is just one of those things to be honest. Clutches are a very variable thing, and you don't know how the previous owner drove it.
To say that's a stretch is an understatement though, I think this is just one of those things to be honest. Clutches are a very variable thing, and you don't know how the previous owner drove it.
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Wow !
All automatics have clutches, just no pedal. Few modern auto's run torque converters either as they are inefficient on fuel, VAG Boxes are all dual clutch. The term DCT means Dual Clutch Transmission.
That is not true.
Modern autos with torque converters have a torque converter lockup system to remove the small slippage. It varies with the particular box on which gears and when it operate but most good autos have used this to some time.
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Whilst technically automatic gearboxes contain various clutches they are not the same thing as the clutch you'll find in a manual transmission car and as a result it's broadly accurate to claim that a manual has a clutch and an automatic does not.
it is also simply not true to say 'few modern autos run torque converters'. All conventional automatic gearboxes have torque converters and whilst DSG style boxes (Which are technically twin-clutch automated manual transmissions) are becoming more and more popular it's simply completely misleading and wrong to say 'few modern autos run torque converters'.
With the exception of a few rare transmissions in cars like the M cars or Z4 SDrive35i DCT the ENTIRE BMW and Mini automatic range are torque converter autos, for example and the same applies to Mercedes, Land Rover, Bentley, larger Audi models, etc etc.
Torque converter automatics are incredibly common
