I'm looking at a car next weekend, the owner has told me about the clutch vibration noise at about 3.5k rpm .. looks to have been happening for 6 months with no serious issues. I just know it'd get on my nerves to have a 'new' car and have issues with it.

I take it this is the 054 vs 055 clutch change that a load of you mention getting done under warranty?

The car I'm looking at is an import (no warranty), so instead of forking out

 

Cannot help with aftermarket clutches but thought i would say that i have been running my 99 car with a slightly buzzy clutch for almost a year. I hardly notice it, only really when decelerating slowly on the gears. I would not let it put me off buying.

What year is the car you are buying?

 

The car is a Jan 2000 (V plate).
Parkers suggests about

 

Bothered me when I first got the car because I thought I would have to have it fixed, but now I'm not worried.

On the early cars changing to 055 clutch my not even cure the problem for more than a couple of thousand miles as it is the gear clusters that vibrate, the clutch just dampens the noise.

 

SimonPrelude you around today?

The guys had more new engines and clutches than hot dinners, deffo the man to talk to!

 

Erm, I'm here, still waiting to find the answer myself.

The current Spoon set up seems a bit worrying now, thinking it is going to go soon, with 2 trackdays this week I am not looking forward to that !!

TBH If you really kill clutches, try looking at your driving techniques first, I have double shifted since having this new clutch but it doesn't seem to have helped.

It could just be the BP petrol I have put in at the weekend, but the car seems to be picking up slowly, which usually points to the clutch in my case.

Will get rid of the BP and put Optimax back in tonight, see how it goes then.

If not and the clutch does go, I am going to try a Spoon metal clutch, then look at ACT / Exedy double / triple plate clutches, can't do with them slipping.

 

Never had the 054 though, was already replaced with the 055 before I got the car.

 

I've gone through 2 clutches in my current car .. the stock one let go after a large BHP increase .. then I killed a 400 lb/ft clutch in a year (20k miles and a half dozen laps of Nur). and I've just had another 500 lb/ft one put in which had done another Germany trip and several thousand.

Only running about 260/270 lb/ft .. and the last two have been with a flywheel too.

Glad to know it's nothing too serious though (as the seller suggested), just know the noise would annoy me. May have to turn the stereo up a bit in that case

 

when i looked last week hardtopguy was doing a special on comptech flywheel and heavy duty plate plus rest as oem, think it worked out at under