That's general range 13-18. When you see some above 1800 and driving, it kinda changes things. So if you were told "hey you clutch is worn out and reading 1788" would you buy a new one.....I'd roll the dice.

 

interesting. i guess i should find out. will sure sure to report back as i drive it. thanks

 

So we had the car taken to the AM dealer, tech states that he is unable to register any sort of clutch reading

Left the car unhooked from the battery overnight, hooked it back up this morning and the car drives fine

However, reverse gear is a little jittery, it definitely seems like the clutch has shifted a bit or not kissing right. Once the car gets moving it drives completely fine like nothing is wrong at all

I am still leaning towards a bad clutch - I got in contact witht he previous dealers that serviced this car with the previous owner - they all noted the clutch has not been a maintenance item that was replaced in the past 5 years, I think it's safe to say the oem clutch has finally worn down at 32k miles

We checked all of the grounds (was thinking that potentially a ground might've come loose and is causing some sort of wonky issue), those were all fine. Literally no lights or warnings are popping up to indicate anything is wrong, which is leading me to believe it is purely a mechanical issue

 

Reverse is always crazy...the clutch is always grabbing and releasing on ASM ...I try to never keep in reverse more then needed.

Did the dealer finally read your clutch life?

If not take the darn car out get it in the 7000 rpm range you will know if problems...

I still believe your indie did something and not telling you.

I am glad working...keep it out of dealers etc...and drive it. I have over 36000 on original clutch...no slipping. If you do alot of highway driving remember once in gear...no wearing of the clutch on stick or ASM.

Good luck...

 

This is not the normal roughness of the reverse gear, it definitely seems rougher

Yes, last night the car was dropped off but AM was not able to register a reading - this is leading me to believe the clutch is too far gone to even be read?

However, does not explain how the car seems to be driving just fine in normal gears. No loss of power, no shift slippage, you'd never tell there was an issue unless you put it in reverse


It's ironic though, I do all of the work on the car myself - dropped it off for an alignment with 0 issues, next day get the call the car wont move

 

Could the battery have gone flat? I let mine die, and all kinds of strange things happened.





Matt

 

 

 

Hi,
I meant that the shop may have let the battery go flat, then recharged. I'm just speculating, but maybe some of the clutch learn parameters were lost? There is a procedure to force the learn on startup (but I don't recall the details, and it changes by vintage of the car).


matt

 

+ 1...I agree

 

That could very well be a plausible explanation and I doubt a shop would ever come clean about that as it seems sort of embarrassing

I will drive the car around a bit and see how it performs over the next couple of days

 

i think you should just drive around see how it goes. it's very possible that it was an electronic glitch that took a reset to restart everything. you'll know if clutch is really dead within the next couple hundred miles, aka a couple gas fill-ups. i am guessing somehow the TCU had a fluke and had to be reset.

 

 

I don't know about everyone else. But I think it'll be better to wait until the clutch actually run out to replace with VAP. It's good to have the VAP in hand. But you would be throwing away unused mileage ($$) by changing it out now. Sounds like the car is running fine now. I also plan on purchasing a twin plate backup but plan on using up the original one .

 

+1...also the more you have people touch your car the more sorry you will become...front end alignment ....simple job...turned into Aston Martin tow...

Chose carefully who installs this clutch...

Good luck...