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Had a major service on my car today and found out it needs the RMS doing.
As my car 6 years old and has done 36K would it make sense to have the clutch done at the same time? when is a clutch usually replaced?
Cheers
Paul
I would do it. Basically while they have it all apart for the RMS they may as well do the clutch. You would only pay for the parts as the labour would already be done if you see whay I mean?
Clear as mud me!
bull 996 - That's what I was thinking.
I heard many people say get your RMS done when you have a clutch done, but I thought id do it the other way round.
Ill see how much it is in the morning and decide.
Sheldon,
Who did your major service? If it was an OPC, they'll tell you it's failed even if there's slight seepage. I had a 48k service done on my car at Chiswick after 25k miles and they said mine had failed. I got it up on the ramps at my specialist (who now services it - that ought to tell you something) and we had a poke about to find out that seepage was almost an exagerration. It was very slightly damp. I cured it by using the car. 6k miles and six months later, we had another look and it looked like it had disappeared. I had a 12k service done just before Christmas (after another 5k miles) and it's sorted. Maybe I've been lucky.
I would suggest you leave it for the time being and monitor it reasonably closely, as I did. The average mileage for a clutch is about 50k on a C4, a bit more on a C2 so unless you drive like a hooligan, it should have plenty of life left. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. [
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I agree with the above from John and i had the same sort of thing on my C4. I bought the car, a well known specialist did a full report no RMS it went in for a service at OPC as i want to keep it's great SH up, and they said it had a failed RMS which i think was very minor the problem i had was that i wanted the extended warranty so needed it replaced. I asked about the clutch and they advised me that when doing the RMS they would take the clutch out and inspect it, and report back so i could decide if i wanted it replaced or not, it did have a few miles left in it but i decided to replace it while having the RMS done. I would leave it and see how it goes if you get lots of oil on your garage floor then maybe get it done and at the same time get them to have a look at the clutch, by then you may need a new one.
Phil
Thanks for everyone's posts.
In the end I got the RMS done and my OPC advised on replacing the clutch as well, (As expected there were no extra labour charges for the clutch). In hindsight I probably should have got a second (meaning specialist independent) opinion on the RMS.
For future reference Can anyone recomend a good independent in the Kent/Essex area?
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Paul
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