[s-cars] RE: Clutches

[David Mackintosh]

My 95.5 S6 original clutch is at 180k miles, but all but the last 3k of
those were done by the original owner, who was a mostly highway driver, and
hadn't chipped the car or anything.  I, of course, chipped it immediately.
;^)

How (or why) would  you heel-toe shifts on the way up?  I assume you just
mean rev-match.  I'm fairly easy on clutches, but my around-town driving is
in a very hilly area, so I imagine it won't last forever.

David Mackintosh
mackintosh at gorge.net
541-400-6300  (Cell)


> Also, all this recent talk of clutches has me thinking.  My 
> 93 S4 has the
> orig. clutch at 177k.  Has anyone seen many more miles from 
> the stock orig.
> clutch?  I don't spend much time in heavy traffic, and I 
> thankfully don't
> live where I'm hampered by such crazy things as too many stop 
> signs or stop
> lights.  Just speculating on how much longer the clutch will 
> last.  I don't
> do high RPM lacunches, and almost always heel/toe my shifts, 
> up and down, so
> I'm not hard on it, but it is only a matter of time.  BTW the 
> car is fully
> stock.
> 
> TIA 
> 
> Ron Kirkham
> 93 S4 177k