I am a Nissan technician certified on 350Zs. your clutch should not be slipping at 8k. As far as the Spongy thing goes your independent shop skrewed up somehow, they probably used the original presure plate which may have been your problem in the first place. Does it still slip? if so DO NOT TELL THEM YOU TOOK IT TO AN INDEPENDENT NISSAN WILL DENY THE CLAIM MOST LIKELY. if it doesnt slip anymore there may be air in the clutch lines, but im pretty sure you shouldnt have to bleed or even open the hydralic systemSuperblack is right, you need to take this above the dealer level. call nissan and complain until they make it right, and they will.or take it to another dealer and see what they say.
I would also like to stand up for new car dealers, not all of them are shady!
If you would have read the thread, you would have seen that the car was taken to a dealership. I hate people that just pop in and spout off when they don't even know whats going on....
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Somewhat akin to what happens to your brakes if you ride them all the time. The outer layers heat up and constant overheating causes them to glaze over, become hard and shiny basically. Same thing happens to a clutch if "ridden" or slipped a lot.
You are little mistaken, but this is a common misconception. Glazing to a smooth surface is normal for a clutch and it will look "hard and shiny". Once broken in properly to a smooth lapped in surface, the clutch will wear very slowly but hold a little less power than it does new. It is friction, not roughness that is suposed to hold the power. If the clutch won't hold the power when it is "hard and shiny" then most likely you need more clamp load.
When you slip the clutch a lot it actually does the opposite because of the intense heat. The resins that hold the friction material together boil out and work more like a lubricant than a bonding agent, leaving the clutch disc looking really torn up. When it gets really bad the friction material will become a bunch or cat fur in the pressure plate and belhousing. Not pretty at all!
As you all know I had to get a new clutch at 8800 miles and was charged for it. I called Nissan consumer affairs and they said that the shop manager told them it was due to wear and tear. Ok, how would you know if a clutch has been misused? What kinds of things would show up? All of the sudden the clutch started slipping and when I took it in thats when I heard about the clutch needed to be replaced? Wouldn't there have been symptons sooner and what would they have been? I just dont get how I learned how to drive on a car that had a shift on the steering column and never burned those clutches out and believe me I was young then. Actually I have been driving manuals since I was 12. So what gives, is Nissan making a sorry product. Any input will be appreciated.
Last edited by tgunn : Feb 23rd, 2005 at 07:54 AM.
As you all know I had to get a new clutch at 8800 miles and was charged for it. I called Nissan consumer affairs and they said that the shop manager told them it was due to wear and tear. Ok, how would you know if a clutch has been misused? What kinds of things would show up? All of the sudden the clutch started slipping and when I took it in thats when I heard about the clutch needed to be replaced? Wouldn't there have been symptons sooner and what would they have been? I just dont get how I learned how to drive on a car that had a shift on the steering column and never burned those clutches out and believe me I was young then. Actually I have been driving manuals since I was 12. So what gives, is Nissan making a sorry product. Any input will be appreciated.
Did you get your so-called bad parts back from the Nissan dealer? Sorry I didn't reply sooner but I didn't have instant email notification set for this thread. You can email me directly if that helps.
what dealer did you go to so i know not to go there?
In all honesty, I wouldn't have gotten the clutch replaced. I would have called Nissan consumer affairs and complained. If they refused to cover it, id call back. if that doesnt work, try compromising with them. Say you'll cover half the cost. My buddy has an '88 civic with 202K miles on it with the original clutch. So obviously, at 8K, it'd sound awfully ridiculous for a clutch to go.
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