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AaronM AaronM is offline
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Originally posted by StoogeMoe
Take it from someone who has 316K mi on their original clutch. If you want it to last, keep your foot off the thing at a stop light. You will wear out your throw-out bearing much sooner if you don't.
316,000 miles on your original clutch? Either your clutch was replaced by a PO and you don't know about it, your clutch is using the rivets as friction material, you shift without using the clutch at all like a semi driver, or you're BS-ing. Plus, if you have an NA, then there's no way in hell that the rubber center hasn't deteriorated by now.

I have never in my life had a throwout bearing die before the clutch itself, and in my experience 150,000 miles on a clutch is doing well.

Aaron
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