[Zeke]

I got stuck in massive 45 minute traffic jam on a 6% grade going up hill with no off ramps and no emergency lane. (Yep, that's SoCal for you.) Top speed was below idle in 1st for 5 miles. When I got into open space, the clutch just spun on me. I coasted off the freeway and nursed the car to a rest at a Denny's to consider my options. When I got back in the car after a half hour, the clutch held enough to nurse the car home on the flatter freeways adding a bout 20 extra miles to the trip home. It seems fine now, how does that play out?

I mean I romped on it in the last mile and it held all the way. I know slippage when it starts and it seems OK. Can the Boxster clutch become too hot and then save itself if you catch the problem right away as I did?

BTW, I was about 3 clutch operations from being left dead in lane no. one. It would have taken over a hour for a truck to reach me and I would have blocked a whole lane for that hour. That's my last SoCal trip for fun.