How to reduce the wear on your clutch

[TopAuto]

How to reduce the wear on your clutch

The clutch is a vitally important part of your car, and can be expensive to replace if it receives unnecessary wear.

 

[rodga]

How to reduce wear on your clutch for dummies: Buy an automatic.

 

[Genisys]

How to reduce wear on your clutch for dummies: Buy an automatic.

Or just don't drive

 

[Nemus]

Stop using launch control at every intersection

 

[cpu.]

The article should include reversing "uphill". It should be done as fast as possible, not slowly, like most will do.

I use to reverse my trailer in to a customer's yard, but not any more if it's uphill. I'll rather reverse out, downhill.

 

[FiestaST]

Ok I’m gonna call it. I feel all these tips are common knowledge.

If you had 1 driving school lesson in a stick shift tranny all this is mentioned.

 

[Dan C]

Ok I’m gonna call it. I feel all these tips are common knowledge.

If you had 1 driving school lesson in a stick shift tranny all this is mentioned.

They forgot to mention tire pressure, it saves on you clutch.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

But I like the smell of burnt clutch

 

[Stokstert]

Change gears without using the clutch after pull-away. With a bit of practice, it's quite easy with modern synchromesh gearboxes. It's a bit more difficult with non-synchromesh boxes, aka some army trucks, but it can be learned.

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

Since when did clutches start to fail often, that one has to start nursing them for a longer life?

 

[Stokstert]

Since when did clutches start to fail often, that one has to start nursing them for a longer life?

Only clutch-riders who keep their cars steady on an uphill instead of using the brakes or keep their feet constantly on the clutch while driving.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Change gears without using the clutch after pull-away. With a bit of practice, it's quite easy with modern synchromesh gearboxes. It's a bit more difficult with non-synchromesh boxes, aka some army trucks, but it can be learned.

AKA how to save your clutch by ****ing up the gearbox instead.

The only place this makes sense is on a sequential gearbox like a motorcycle.

 

[Stokstert]

AKA how to save your clutch by ****ing up the gearbox instead.

The only place this makes sense is on a sequential gearbox like a motorcycle.

Only if you force the gears while changing instead of getting the refs right.

 

["D"]

Change gears without using the clutch after pull-away. With a bit of practice, it's quite easy with modern synchromesh gearboxes. It's a bit more difficult with non-synchromesh boxes, aka some army trucks, but it can be learned.

At what cost?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Only if you force the gears while changing instead of getting the refs right.

Yeah and every time you fail you cause damage , with the odd success in between.

Despite the fact in the hands of every man who can’t operate the clutch properly in the first place and needs a useless article like this, it’s a recipe for disaster.

Also, leave the refs at the sportball games please.

 

[chrisc]

My clutch lasted 250 000km. No special driving skills, except I took it easy

 

[Stokstert]

Yeah and every time you fail you cause damage , with the odd success in between.

Despite the fact in the hands of every man who can’t operate the clutch properly in the first place and needs a useless article like this, it’s a recipe for disaster.

Also, leave the refs at the sportball games please.

Hahaha, you have all fallen for the joke, but it can be done in an emergency when the clutch cable has snapped.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Hahaha, you have all fallen for the joke, but it can be done in an emergency when the clutch cable has snapped.

Indeed.

Fortunately proper cars have hydraulic clutches.

 

[ubercal]

stage 3 clutch

 

[killerbyte]

Change gears without using the clutch after pull-away. With a bit of practice, it's quite easy with modern synchromesh gearboxes. It's a bit more difficult with non-synchromesh boxes, aka some army trucks, but it can be learned.

I once had to drive a Datsun Go as a rental car while in CPT. The handbrake was one of those old bakkie style handbrakes that I would bash my knee on every time I used the clutch. So I drove that little car without using the clutch.