the dealer told me i gotta pay 600 for a new clutch, they are ****ing gay, i hope the service manager dies in a painful car wreck, I buy a new car and in less than a year they want me to pay that much to fix it. im making them put my **** back together and get it fixed somewhere else cuz i dont want them getting my money, they are some greedy *** ******

 

well how do you go through a clutch in less then a year?

 

Clutches are expensive, and yeh $600 is a good lump of dough, but remeber, this your car your talking about. Take good care of her and she'll take good care of you

 

first question (repeat of zlancer), how do you go through a clutch in a year? i would hope it is supposed to last MUCH MUCH longer than that, even with some abuse.

and why don't you go get an aftermarket clutch? if you are burning out your stock clutch, maybe an aftermarket one will hold up to your abuse. either that or trade in your manual for an automatic.

 

well it burned up cuz of getting stuck on ice on a few occasions, one of them it was about for an hour.

 

Try starting in second gear next time. It might help, just trying to help. On the topic of getting a new clutch, if they are charging you 6 bills then just get one from Road Race and save $ on the install. There sight is down right now but I think it was much cheaper than 6 bills.
http://www.roadracemotorsports.com/lancer.htm

 

The ACT 2100 I put in my Eclipse was $325 from Extreme. If you consider labor is generally 75-100 per hour for most shops, $600 bucks is a relative bargain. Sounds like you had an unlucky situation and had to abuse your car, but you are getting off pretty easy. 3000GT VR4 owners will pay $1200 at our shop to replace their clutches.

 

Does that $600 include the clutch or is that just labor?

 

ye i called other shops and they are more expensive then the dealer

 

Like I said...buy and ACT clutch and get it installed for probably only a little more. And most of us said from the beginning the clutch is not under warranty. You don't expect MMC to pay for people to learn how to drive stick, do you?

 

check your pm agsmooth84, it may help you out....

 

how much dos it cost to change the evos clutch with a stock oem replacement???

 

If the clutch is the same as the 7's then you probably would be best off going ANY way but OEM.

 

"ANY" way but oem? there's aftermarket, and oem....is there some other mythical option? i guess "none" would be an option too huh. you could get no clutch and just switch gears by manually synchronizing and rpm matching. that's probably your best option.

just busting you hobie, but you knew that.

 

Any way meaning any brand, smartass.