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Originally Posted by FastCarFan View Post
I have never had any clutch problems with a car before (I have been driving manuals since 1978) & I don't think a pressure plate should fail at 62,000 miles. I searched on VWVortex.com (a VW enthusiast Web forum similar to Pelican) & found a poll asking R32 owners what problems they have had with their cars. 50 out of 437 who took the poll (11%) experienced "premature clutch failure". 437 is a pretty good poll sample, considering only 5,000 of R32s were imported. It seems VW has a problem with clutches.
No, VW's clutches are just fine. The problem is that VWVortexers are a bunch of young hoons who thrash the living daylights out of their cars and then complain when they break.
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