A few friends and I drove to a party last night in SF, and afterwards we crashed at my friend's house. See... he lives in a neighborhood with the hilliest (real word?) ****ing streets in the world. Anyways, I had to parallel park reversing up a hill. The clutch got burned bad... embarrasingly bad

Anyways, the clutch is relatively new (12K, and a stock replacement... the only thing they could get for me on short notice), and I was wondering how much punishment these things can take. Haven't really smelled anything since I can pinpoint as my car since, but, well, anyone know if I just shaved like 5K miles off the life of my clutch disc?

 

parallel parking on upgrades/downgrades occasionally is considered normal wear. granted, it wont make the clutch last longer, but if it isn't done everyday or something it wont make much of a difference. you gotta do whatcha gotta do

 

& if you can drive a stick worth anything you only need the clutch for 1st & reverse...

I've still got my original clutch... 3rd owner of the car, the first 2 owners were HS kids that prolly beat the car to hell (and learned to drive stick on it) and I've got almost 110,000 miles on it...

The first owner lived in Seattle, which is a pretty hilly area as well... I think you're good to go for at least 5 years...

:thumbup:

 

I'd still be on my original clutch disc if one of the pressure plate fingers didn't snap off and get wedged between the plate and disc. That sucked. What sucked even more is that this happened when I downshifted on the freeway.

Very uncool.

BTW thanks!