How long should a clutch last...?

If there are no problems and proper maintenance is carried, with a sympathetic driver in a non hilly area then a clutch will outlast the car.

Most clutches in practise usually last between 50k and 100 k miles as a b road generalisation.

I have several customers that are really bad drivers, one had a new clutch every year !! He then got an auto and is now dead (nothing to with anything here.)

Another has a new clutch every two or three years.

Things that will cause a new clutch to fail early:

Missing the fact that the clutch is smothered in oil. Only fitting some of the parts that are needed, failing to spot a worn out flywheel, missing a stiff release arm, failing to adjust the cable correctly or a stiff or faulty cable. Real bad driver. Seized brakes.

It is almost unknown these days for even a cheapo clutch to fail because of manufacture errors, the days of fleetway clutches seem to be over.

Mrcheerful

Unless it's a new Nissan Navara. Done my brothers last week, that had only done 28k, and he knows somebody else who had to get there's done at 30k. A quick google search revealed it's a well known issue, with some failing at under 10k.

Some years ago bought a Golf Diesel (not turbo), from a friend, it had

+250K kms, my elder daughter used it for a few years and sold it to a friend who put many more kms on it, I then bought it back and the younger daughter used it for a couple of years before I sold it again.

As I knew the history of the car from new and the person who bought it in between I can testify that in the ~ 500.000 kms it had covered the clutch had never ben changed. From Germans I have heard this is quite normal.

My dad just got 200'000 Miles out of a clutch on an Escort 1.8Si then it failed catastrophically when some of the bearing/gubbings collapsed.

I replaced the clutch on the corsa at about 55'000 due to a noisy release bearing, still going strong at 150'000 miles and that wasn't an expensive clutch Saches I think?

Tom

IANAM (I am not a mechanic)

My Hyundai Accent has 70k on the clock and its not shown any signs of needing replacing as yet (had it from new).

A friend of mine has a Mazda and it had done well over 100K on the original clutch .

Stuart

162K on my Pug. Original clutch still in place and showing no signs of wear. The clutch *cable* snapped through wear but the replacement cable didn't need to go very tight to get to a nice low bite.

Warwick