[Shotimes] RE: MTX Shifting Prolem

[bjshov8@comcast.net]

My dealer replaced my original cluth under recall barely before 50k.  My replacement clutch lasted about another 80k miles, in the city traffic I'm in.  When I replaced it I found that about 1/4 of the fingers had their tips worn off, the others were getting thin.

I'm not sure how I feel about a car needing a new clutch every 80k miles considering the amount of work that goes into a clutch replacement, but OTOH nowadays it is hard to get an automatic that is any better.  So replacing a clutch sounds cheap compared to replacing an automatic.  In the old days it was different- good automatics rarely failed, and clutches could be replaced in under an hour.


> Leigh,
> It looks like I'm right behind you. My 95 MTX with
> 86,000 miles on her is still running the original
> clutch. 

>> The clutch went up in smoke today as I rolled to a
>> stop at one of the 
>> 13+
>> traffic lights on my daily commute.  So I will be
>> replacing it.

>>> Sounds like the all-too-common dying throwout
>>> bearing/chewed up 
>>> pressure
>>> plate finger issue to me. Should show up as hard to
>>> get into reverse.