The Student Room Group
Reply 1
Yeh basically...and it means he has more money than sense! Depending on the car a burnt out clutch can cost in general about £500 or more to replace!

Don't burn out your clutch, basically if he had a burnt out clutch his clutch control is shocking. He was not so much racing the car as destroying it.

Of course it could have been the brakes which were hot...not the clutch. Smell is quite similar and it is a right achievement to have your clutch burning.

Graham
As above.

Caused by burning of the friction material of the clutch, a very strong smell similar to the burning of rubber but more intense and more vile.

Lots of ways to cause it from using completely the wrong gear to pull away to riding the clutch on an incline etc. none of which do the car any good. A replacement clutch is cheap, fitting it is not.
Reply 3
Revving it high with the clutch still engaged
Reply 4
the key to burning the clutch is to have the clutch half in, half out, rev hard and also be on an incline. hill starts would eb a good example.
Reply 5
Zebedee
the key to burning the clutch is to have the clutch half in, half out, rev hard and also be on an incline. hill starts would eb a good example.


Yep, I did that to my driving instructors car. :wink: I thought, "Woah! Whats that smell?!"
Oh yes I've done that twice in my mum's car! But not with my mum in it of course, but she wouldn't have noticed the smell anyway.

Both times were when going up very steep hills needing a lot of control and where stalling or rolling back would have been absolutely disastrous. First time was pulling on to my nan's drive - I had to very carefully edge it forwards up a very steep hill. If it'd have stalled or jerked forwards it could have hit the step in front or the gate behind. Second time was pulling out from a very steep road to a very busy T-junction and wanting to be ready to go quick off the mark - the idiot behind had stopped about an inch from my back bumper so I couldn't risk stalling or rolling back in the slightest. I had L plates on, he shoulda known better than to do that.

So yeah high revs and riding the clutch does it!
Don't worry, with more practise and experience you will never do it to your clutch whatever the situation. An experienced driver never does it except under exception circumstances (towing too heavy a mass for example).
Reply 8
Wow...i have never done it! I usually just dump the clutch if i need to go of quickly rather than slip the clutch! On a hill, you should be able to give the car some revs to get it going, let the clutch out and then very small revs will keep it going up the hill...

Not that it matters.

Graham
Reply 9
how many revs would be too high?
Bravery
how many revs would be too high?

No idea for when I did it as the car doesn't have a tachometer.

But a few thousand definitaly! Maybe 3000 or more?
Reply 11
I did it once when I was learning on a hill start. :P
Reply 12
gbduo
Yeh basically...and it means he has more money than sense! Depending on the car a burnt out clutch can cost in general about £500 or more to replace!




My saxo needs a new gearbox & clutch and together that'll set my back no more then 200ish. I spose with more modern cars that price would rise considerbly though.


thefish_uk
No idea for when I did it as the car doesn't have a tachometer.

But a few thousand definitaly! Maybe 3000 or more?


You'd be alright with 3000, i pull off with more then that all the time(our drive leads onto a 60 zone) its when your revving to silly amounts, so 5k+ etc that the real dammage starts to be done.
Graham's price includes labour, your's doesn't.

That price isn't for a new gearbox!

A clutch will set you back £40-£100+ from a motor factors, then fitting. Depending on the car could be 3 hours or 12 hours plus on labour, at £50 an hour that's a lot of money.

I couldn't give a price on a new gearbox, since nobody buys new ones. A reconditioned gearbox can cost from £200-£1000+ typically. Anything from about 6 hours to 20 hours labour...

It really varies from car to car.
Reply 14
dumping the clutch is just as bad, just pull away easy, and save yourself some money. and how the hell did you get a new gearbox and clutch for 200, even if this was excluding labour (say min £25 an hour), was the box outa a breakers?
Reply 15
pghstochaj
Graham's price includes labour, your's doesn't.

That price isn't for a new gearbox!



sorry posted that without thinking, your right. Mine is for a 2nd hand gearbox without labour.

i stand corrected.