Thread: 6MT Clutch Life
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      11-07-2013, 05:14 PM   #62
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I am having to replace my pressure plate in my 2008 because the internals of the pressure plate collapsed. I am at 32k miles and the car left me stranded with no clutch pressure. My dealer looked at the pressure plate and clutch and said it was worn.. wanted 4300 bucks...

I had it towed to an Indy who pulled down the transmission.... They saw a clutch disk that had almost no wear on it... and a pressure that had fallen apart from the inside despite no signs of abuse. The indy stated in his 30 years of experience he has only seen this in defective parts.

There is clearly an issue with the 2008 pressure plates because, as some people have mentioned, bmw superseded the part in 2009, leaving us 2008 guys to pay 1700 dollars for a new flywheel when the clutch only costs 6xx. I do not believe that it was "just a sound issue". BMW refused to even partially good-will compensate me for a part of the flywheel cost. Poor customer service making 2008 owners pay to replace parts that were obviously defective from the factory.

The good new in all this is at 32k of babying the car, there was no actual clutch disk wear... so all us stock guys can ride our clutches to 150k+
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