New Clutch Time

[Saleen836]

After just shy of 225k miles my daily drive 2012 Astravan has decided enough is enough and now needs a clutch replacement, any make to avoid or are they all much the same?

[chris1roll]

I've changed 3 clutches on my own cars over the years.
In two of those three cases I ended up doing the job twice as the aftermarket kits (full kits) were no good - one of them wouldn't disengage fully on my MR2, and one slipped under load on my 480 Turbo. In both cases a kit supplied by the main dealer worked perfectly afterwards.

Lesson well and truly learned now, if the manufacturers own kit is still available, thats what I'm fitting from now on.

If not available, I'd probably suggest Sachs?

[Doesitdrive]

Not a difficult job on those, my mechanic does them in 30 minutes, as long as it ain't a recon, on something like that they are all pretty much the same.

[TwinKam]

No he doesn't.
He might've done a Mk1 or a Mk2 one in 30 minutes, but anything later and it's a good 3+ hours.

[finlo]

TwinKam said:

No he doesn't.
He might've done a Mk1 or a Mk2 one in 30 minutes, but anything later and it's a good 3+ hours.

That was good design on those early Astra's pinched from Datsun if I recall correctly.