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01-17-2017, 11:58 PM | #1 |
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Throwout bearing/clutch fork repair completion time
I took my car in because of my fear of a premature worn throwout bearing. Technician inspection revealed a worn throwout bearing, clutch fork and other parts that I'm not familiar with. The repairs were completed in four weeks time. After driving it off the dealership I noticed a rattling sound in the gear box when taking off from 1st gear. I immediately returned to the delearship and expressed my new concern.
My issue is the time of completion for the repair. Should I be concerned that they have had my car for over 5 weeks for this repair? I don't want to offend anyone at this dealership since it's the only one for miles and I was given a loaner car. So typically it take 8 hours to replace a clutch from my research. Is this something common that people are experiencing? Is this ridiculous amount of time? At what point should I bring this to the service managers attention? |
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I'd have respectfully asked about lead time every time I spoke with someone. Nothing wrong with asking. At least there shouldn't be anything wrong with it.
Your assessment of the situation is spot on. Somebody got some 'splaining to do.
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Yep, if they had all the replacement parts on hand, it shouldn't take a mechanic more than a day to perform that operation.
Now, if they had to order the parts from the mainland (or Japan) and they were shipped by boat ...... ya, waaaay longer. humfrz |
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What did you tell them to get them to inspect it in the first place? My dealership is annoyingly stubborn about it and I know mine needs to be fixed.
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I'm sorry.
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Holy shit Batman, 4 weeks!
I hope you had a free loaner car for all that time, and a huge discount. A clutch job should take no more than a day, one week if parts needed to be ordered, all the mechanics where sick, and the only one left is a one handed, half blind, wheelchair bound midget, while fighting off packs of wolfs and mongolanans. But 4 weeks woh, fuck that shit.
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As expected, my throwout bearing was gritty, and the snout was dry and had wear marks. It's been about 2 months since I worked on it, and I drove around locally to break in the new clutch (because I replaced it while transmission was down, even though it looked fine), and no problems so far. |
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I had the same problem initially with the clutch fork noise. It was diagnosed as a normal noise that was coming from the firewall and they could not do anything about it. It was the throwout bearing that initiated the actual inspection. It definitely made a big difference in the smoothness of the clutch pedal. Now I'm just waiting for the other problem to be fixed.
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I was given a loaner simply because my local dealer was backed up for 2 days on a compression test for my Forester back when I launched a ringland. They let me take any of the used cars they had because all the loaners were gone. I got to take a TRD'd out Tacoma with Grabber red letters. I think I must of put a totally unnecessary 400 miles on that thing just enjoying what makes trucks fun...whenever I think about that truck it makes me want one, real bad.
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4 WEEKS?!
They had my car for 3 DAYS and did the throw-out bearing, clutch fork, pressure plate, AND an oil change...and that's only because they had to wait for a few parts! Otherwise, he said I would have had it back next-day! Jeez...
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Mines 1 week for parts. 1-3 days for the fix. The tech sounded like he was doing three simultaneously on a weekend.
My other question is, how the hell am I driving incorrectly to wear this part out at 25k on the Odo? Been driving manuals my whole life, thank god I had the extended warranty (2014 brz)... |
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Dropped mine off on a Monday for this same repair. They had to order parts. I got it back Wednesday. They replaced the TOB, clutch disk, flywheel and pressure plate. Not sure how they would ever need 5 weeks unless other things happened, or they were waiting on back-ordered parts.
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