[wnypga1]

My first clutch went at 6 months, second at 18 months (6k&25K). Dealership say's they are not going to cover it under warranty this time. I don’t abuse my car and this is my 3rd MT and I have never had a clutch burn out before. Has anyone else had to replace their clutch?

[shift330]

If your clutch is going out that often, it's probably you. You might drive ok but maybe you're riding the clutch? Mine has almost 60k miles on it with a lot of "spirited" driving and is still fine. 6k and 25k is crazy. Stop dumping it!

[wnypga1]

AS i said never had a clutch go before and almost allwas had MT's.

[Insider]

If your clutch went out at 6K, then obviously there is something wrong with the car. Even if you abused it, it would be hard to get the clutch to give out at 6K. Hire a lawyer, and get BMW to prove that you absued the clutch.

[Healey3000]

Originally Posted by wnypga1

My first clutch went at 6 months, second at 18 months (6k&25K). Dealership say's they are not going to cover it under warranty this time. I don’t abuse my car and this is my 3rd MT and I have never had a clutch burn out before. Has anyone else had to replace their clutch?

Hi,

When you say the "clutch went out", can you tell us what exactly it was that failed? Was it a worn pressure plate, bent tines on the plate, throw-out bearing, pilot bearing, release fork, etc.?

Depending on the failure, I wonder if it may have to do with your gearbox such as a bent input shaft or misaligned bellhousing. If it's the friction surface of the plate, perhaps the hydraulics are preventing a full release of the clutch slave cylinder, resulting in the same symptoms as riding the clutch.

Have they looked for issues or did they simply replace the clutch parts? Even if they just replaced parts, did they replace all the associated parts or just the pressure plate? The problem may lie elsewhere.

Regards,
Adnan

[noro]

Originally Posted by wnypga1

AS i said never had a clutch go before and almost allwas had MT's.

Do you like to peel your tires? Don't tell me you drive normally and the clutch can't take it.

[wj4]

Originally Posted by Insider

If your clutch went out at 6K, then obviously there is something wrong with the car. Even if you abused it, it would be hard to get the clutch to give out at 6K. Hire a lawyer, and get BMW to prove that you absued the clutch.

A lot of the Evo and STi guys got their clutches to go out at around 5k, but they launched the crap out of their cars.

I'm at 35,xxx miles and clutch is still grabbing perfectly fine. 2nd manual car for me.

To my understanding, the first clutch job is done by the dealership for 'goodwill'. After that, it's coming out of your pocket.

[Bobble]

Healy said it perfectly, something is either very wrong internally with the tranny or clutch mechanism or it's driver induced. My E46 has 140K on the original clutch with abuse, the E90 is step. I've driven manuals for over 35years and never had a clutch go at 6K without another issue. We would need to know what they did and if it was researched as to other problems.

[wnypga1]

It is and was friction on the surface of the plate. I felt it was the hydraulics that where preventing a full release of the clutch. When the clutch went the first time it happened at night and I had the car towed to the dealership when they were closed. They called me the next day when I was at work and said the clutch was fried and they were going to cover it (with a little lecture about how I was lucky they were doing this). So my observations fell on deaf ears. As far as I know they just replaced the warn parts and chalked it up to aggressive driving. I could tell when I picked up the car they felt that I had just beat on it. This is far from the truth I live in upstate NY and got the car in late Sep. I put snow tires on it less than 60 days after I bought it. For the next 4½ months with snows on it I pretty much had to drive like an old lady. The clutch first went less than 2 weeks after I got the snows off( 6K). Now once again after just getting my snows off the clutch goes within 72hrs(26K). There is one piece of info I left out and this is going to look bad. The day I had them take the snows for the second time I got a Dinan Stage 2 flash. But I only had the flash for 72 hours before the clutch went the second time and I barely had time to drive the car! WTF I love my car but this is messed up. The dealership wants me to pay $1400.00 to fix it. I told them it should be covered under warranty and the need to find out what the problem is. And no the problem is not me this is my 3rd MT and my first was a 5.0 in college. If you want to talk about abuse that car could tell some stories and no I never have had to replace a clutch before!!!!!