Jimmy The Saint

I took it to Acura and they confirm it needs a new clutch and flywheel.
Its not covered under warranty cause its a wear and tear item.

I understand it is a wear and tear item, but a clutch needing a complete replacement at 30K miles seems abnormal to me. I have only had the car for a year and am very careful about not riding the clutch. The other thing is that the clutch just all of a sudden went. The pedal seemed to have a bit of play in it about a week ago and then all of sudden it was completely gone.

I know that that the warranty does not cover normal wear and tear like brakes, but a clutch going this early seems like it was defective in some way. This just seems way out of the ordinary to me.

At any rate, the dealership is being very nice and trying to help me out and get me some goodwill help. I just bought the car from them less than a year ago. The Service Tech has been really cool and so has Acura. Acura's customer service is really good and the guys at the dealer have always been great so maybe I will luck out. No word yet though but I am keeping my fingers crossed. Pray for me!

nj2pa2nc

Sorry to hear and I hope it gets fixed as a goodwill. I see you live in DC-I have driven on 95 many of times and hit traffic in the DC area-very hard not to ride the clutch. I must being doing it right as I now have 113,000 miles on my 06 tsx. (original clutch and brakes)

Audioserf

I hope you get a goodwill repair. Barring some incredibly harsh daily driving conditions, 30k is simply absurd for the stock clutch to fail. I'm at 62k (the last 10k with a supercharger, no less) and spend my share of time on the I95 parking lot, and my clutch is holding like a beast.

Good luck.

Jimmy The Saint

Thanks Guys. I actually haven't even heard from the since yesterday at around 1 PM. SO I am curious what is going on. Right now I am just trying to find the lowest price on an exedy stage 1 + flywheel in case I have to do the Job myself.

Audioserf

Contact our forum vendors and see what they can do for you.

Jimmy The Saint

already on it

miner

My guess is they will offer goodwill for the partd - you pay for the labor.

Jimmy The Saint

If they give me warranty prices on the labor I'll do it. But they want 1500 for the install retail and 700 for a stock clutch

Jimmy The Saint

Didn't receive an email or call from anybody at the dealer or at Acura today. Not sure if that is a good sign or bad sign......come on Acura hook me up!

xaznperswaesonx

id rather just replace with aftermarket parts .. as our release bearing sucks

Jimmy The Saint

So far I think that will probably be the plan - Exedy Stage 1 Organic Clutch + Lightweight Flywheel, but I have also been looking at Competition Clutches

Anybody know anything about their products? Seem to be popular with the Honda Tuning crowd...
http://www.competitionclutch.com/