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Originally Posted by mike the snake
I would think, that even with abuse, it would be pretty hard to burn up or break a clutch in 4800 miles.
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That would seem reasonable.
The truth is different, though, which may be worth learning for some of the new manual transmission drivers reading here. There's abuse and then there's ABUSE!
A service manager at a VW dealership related this story. A dad brings his 16-year-old teenage son into the dealership on a Friday to buy him a new GTi.
The kid has never driven a manual gearbox, so someone at the dealership offers to give him a brief driving lesson to familiarize him with the basics.
Dad and kid decline, and they take the new GTi home.
They angrily return on Monday with a burned out clutch disk and a blued flywheel. It lasted just one weekend.
Surprisingly, VW generously offered to replace the parts, but the owner had to pay for the labor. But, only this once, naturally.
It is quite possible to destroy a clutch (and the flywheel via over-heating) in a mere weekend of abuse. The kid must have gone berserk, though, don't you think?
Expensive lesson to learn.