Yanje

i dun mind that if it arent covered by warranty :D

93rdcurrent

Unless your last names Bobbit anyway :p

Chevy

The clutch should be covered by warrenty. When my truck was still covered by warrenty (my grandpa owned it at the time) He pulled it up to the shop doors walked in to tell them the clutch was going out, when a mechanic came in and told him the clutch went out. It went out 1 day before warrenty ended. They replaced it under warrenty no questions asked. Although the truck (a 82 GMC 3/4ton p/u) has gone threw 3 three clutches almost 4, in 60,000 miles, currently the truck has 62,300 miles on it. (true milage never had alot of miles put on)

As for exploding clutches, yes they can explode. Its kinda like when I take cd's put them in my dremel tool and spin them to 30,000RPM, they fly apart with pieces flying all over the place, but they tend to fly apart at different speeds, one might come apart at 20,000 another at 12,000. Its not impossable for a clutch to "explode". A manufacturing defect like a crack in the metal would cause it to fail, and it could take time to show up, the heating and cooling over time would make the defect worse.

I recently help work on a subaru, the owner thought he "sucked" a valve but when we pulled the head off we only found a burned valve, the engine had 132,000 miles on it. After close inspection of the engine, head, and valves we decided it was a defect from the factory. Some defects take time to show up. When knew it was a defect from the factory because you could see the honing crosshatching all the way through the cylinder walls, which is amazing for that milage. So it is very possable to have manufacturing defects show up at higher millages.

Tatsuki

Yea, but we still have not had the question of the ages answered...what, exactly, is a Troll?

Inquiring minds...

Baller

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o_town_racer

FYI....I also have a 2001 Miata that is still under the original 3 yr/36K mile warranty. The clutch started to develop a bad chatter. I mentioned this to my service advisor. He said to bring it in for free replacement under warranty. The Miata has about 25K miles on it. Don't post stuff about NOT being covered under warranty unless you check it out at the dealership first.

Katchoo

Bummer x3. It had to be a defect no matter what MZDA says. They are just being a pain by not covering it. I would assume they think you were abusing the car or something and that would be the reason for them not to cover it. They may not have said as much...but you KNOW that is what they are thinking.

Hard 8

Way back in 1991, the clutch on my 91 Miata wore out (it did not explode, but just started slipping) at 18,000 miles.

I was the car's original owner. I never rode the clutch or did any drop-clutch starts. I just drove the car in a normal manner. Also, I have had maybe eight other cars with manual transmissions and none of their clutches ever wore out on me no matter how far I drove them. So this one was a fluke.

Anyhow, the Mazda dealer (not the manufacturer) agree to cover it under warranty. They told the manufacturer it must have been defective.

If this guy's clutch disintegrated and broke into fragments, it would seem to "explode" since it's spinning at high RPMs. Sounds like a defective part to me. I would fight it.

myredrx888

Mines being replaced as we speak, They told me it was covered for 12000 miles I have 11899 Got lucky

efonwang

so......what the heck is a troll??!?!?!

tasteslikechicken

:D

spork

First off...


Second...
The problem people have with believing you is
1) people don't think a clutch will explode unless you're doing something you're not.
2) people don't believe mazda wouldn't cover a defect that bad.

If your clutch exploded because you were doing something stupid (ie dropping to 2nd gear at 100mph) then well, you deserve to have to pay for it. There was already a guy here complaining about how Mazda wouldn't pay to fix his transmission which has gone bad TWICE since Mazda claimed he abused his car (which he said was b.s.). Then later the same guy was bragging about dropping to a gear at a certain speed which undoubtedly was abusing the car.

If you were driving normally and it exploded then you definitely need to get in contact with Mazda North America because they need to cover it.

EDIT: oh a troll is someone who posts something purely to get a rise out of people.

for example if i go to a jewish holocaust survivor website and start posting
"Hitler really knew what he was doing" that is called trolling. It comes from the fishing term.

Howard

I believe you could spend a vey small amount of money to attempt to get them to pay for this in small claims court. I had a automatic transmission come apart years ago while under warranmty and they refused to fix it. A letter from a attorney reversed that decision very quicky. Letter cost fifty dollars then. Today you could probably get one written for 150. Exploding cluthes should be covered under warranty unless there is proof of abuse. Worn clutch plates should not. That simple.

army_rx8

hmm.....i believe teh mazda drive train in question (flywheel clutch)...shouldn't be reved over 10500rpm.....(sorry forgot what thread i read that on )...if it goes over that there is a very high chance that those parts will fail ... or at the very least will fail later due to undue wear and tear. i'm sure the forces exerted on them go up exponentialy the higher the rpm's get. so if you missed a gear...that sucks kinda your fault even though it blows. but if it just blew up...they shoudl cover it. i've never heard of a clutch blowing up at cruising speed though. i've seen flywheels blow up and take about everythign with them...but those were on a drag racing rotary...adn it was stupid powerful ..haha and i don't think the flywheel was rated to do what the car tried to make it do:D hmm..ok i've babbled enough:p

PaulieWalnuts

efonwang gets the award

RX Renesis

troll.. little short green men