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OK, I got my car back. It seems to be good. The pedal effort for the clutch is lighter than it was originally, but I suspect that's just due to it having a different pressure plate.

When they gave me the initial estimate, it was "we can do it for ~3000" (they gave me an itemized with more specific dollar amounts).

The one estimate was something like $600 for clutch and pressure plate and then 1100 for the flywheel. The other estimate was $1100 for the clutch, pressure plate and flywheel. It seemed odd to me. They said it was a kit which also seemed odd. My cynical side also wondered if since they couldn't sell me on the "you need $1500 worth of new ball joints in the rear" they decided to throw some new charges on the bill to make up for the "loss", but I'm going to give them the benefit of a doubt and assume they made a mistake versus being crooked.

Then last Wed they called and said "we received the parts today, but not all of them. The rest of the parts will be delivered on Mon, so your car won't be ready on Fri, it'll probably be ready next Tue or Wed."

That was irritating, but it is what it is. They'd already had the car for 2 days.

When I got there today, they said, "it turns out that the kit didn't come with the pressure plate, so we had to order that, but we gave it to you at our cost." ($375) The itemized receipt shows a "Sachs clutch kit $375" and a "Porsche Clutch/flywheel Assembly $1077."

I assume they thought the "clutch/flywheel assembly" was all 3 parts and they were wrong and had to order a clutch when they discovered that they'd screwed up. They didn't tell me about the increase in price or mistake until I picked the car up.

I'm certainly not going back, which is a shame, they were good for the set of tires that I bought from them.

I did see the parts, and it did look like they replaced everything. The throw-out bearing was definitely bad. I can't say for sure about the flywheel. I saw it move side to side, but I'm not sure if it was more or less the 15mm and I'm not sure if it sprung back. Either way, everything is new now. The clutch disk wasn't worn down to the rivets which was good.