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Old 11-21-2013, 11:50 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by Porsche View Post
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.
I sold my fairly heavily modified E46 M3 to a guy who had never driven clutch before. He managed to destroy the clutch in less than a week and called me up to tell me. He said he had been practicing on hills.
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