Are you the original owner and the only one who ever drives the car?

 

I'm not the original owner. Bought the car in early 2015 w/13k miles on the clock. It's hard for me to imagine someone trashing the clutch on a bone stock car in 13k miles over the course of 2004-2015. I have considered it, but it seems unlikely to me. As robust as these cars are, do you think maybe it was previously driven by a total boob who may have done serious damage to the clutch?

I am currently the only one who drives the car. And only on the street. It's a cabriolet, and was totally 100% bone stock before I got ahold of it. I like to cruise mostly, but sometimes I want to drop the hammer and head for the horizon with the top down!

 

No. 1.1 bar tune since new. Gonna do clutch and new tune soon.

 

Nice... Thanks for the reply bud!

 

I'm the original owner. I put an exhaust and tune in at 2,500 miles.

 

I bought my car with a 11,000 miles 8 years ago and @ 13,000 miles I installed a 1.1 bar tune & exhaust, 3 years ago my clutch slipped twice around 38,000 miles then I upgraded to Sachs 2.5 clutch kit my DMF was still in great shape so reused it.

 

How do you like your clutch.

 

Great I am happy with it feels like the stock clutch for the most part and if/when upgrade my turbos it will be able to handle additional power no problem.

 

1.1 bar tune. 110000 miles. stock clutch

 

Depending on your upgades... it won't last long !

 

I bought my car with the GT2 conversion and a GT2 clutch. k16`s, software exhaust, 997 GT2 RS IC`means around 500 PS. The clutch started slipping after 50.000 km but not because it was wordn out...no my crankshaft simmer ring / o-Ring started dripping and the oil caused the clutch to slip.
That leakage is known to the 996 carreras usually, but can obviously happen to 996 TT too after 13 years
All fixed now + new sachs clutch which i will need for the k24 with 49,5mm compressor wheel.

 

Good shot Ghost... I'll definitely have a look underneath

 

Not at all worried clutch is good up to 750 HP I won't go over 600 HP if/when I upgrade my turbos.

 

I have an EPL tune and 70K miles on the original clutch. When I had my 60K service done, I still had 50% remaining.

 

In my opinion it depends on how you drive your car.
High gear, low revs and full throttle will surely kill the clutch fast.
It depends on how many NM your engine produces. Stock clutch will hold around 650 NM.
It starts slipping already with k24 and a tune.