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Old 03-08-2016, 09:26 AM   #11
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The clutch is a wear part. It's meant to be burned up and replaced, like brake pads.

You're going to put more wear on the clutch when you're first learning. If you worry about it, that's just going to make you overthink it, and you'll burn it even worse. So just accept that you're going to put a little extra wear on it while you're learning and don't worry about it. You're not doing any lasting damage to the car that can't be remedied with a new clutch.

And clutches on modern cars are made to go tens, in some cases hundreds of thousands of miles before replacement. If you take a few thousand miles off its life while learning, it's not going to matter all that much in the big scheme of things. If you have to replace the clutch at 140K miles instead of 150K, will you even know the life was reduced?

Relax.
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