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My only manual car in my 85 911. I don't sit at a red light with the clutch pushed in. With a cable driven clutch the cable is under stress, as it the omega spring and the pressure plate. My 914 had a similar setup minus the omega spring. I wore out and had to replace a couple of clutch cables. I had one pressure plate just fail while in stop and go traffic.
If you are driving your modern cars for a handful of years, and moving on, yea clutch failure is not likely. Drive 36 year old cars for 25+ years and you will see clutch parts fail or wear out.
The muscle cars of the 70s here with large displacement high torque engines that can smoke the rear tires ate through a clutch in short order if in a lot of stop light racing. One of my buddies had a big block 454 high compression engine in a Chevelle that would have clutch problems one per year. The good news is replacing the parts were cheap, and done is a day. That clutch was quite heavy, and tiring.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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