Sportshift V8V Clutch Learns
Discussion
Hopefully all V8V owners with Sportshift gearboxes know about the Clutch Learn process but I thought it worth sharing my recent experience.
It is recommended to 'regularly' carry out the clutch learn process on the Sportshift gearbox and I had been doing it approximately every fortnight on my car. It gets driven 5-6 days of the week and I live in the centre of London so the majority of my journeys involve a bit a stop-start and traffic. Recently the car had started to suffer a small judder on pull-away, only from a standstill and not all of the time - uhoh!
Reading back on a thread I had coincidentally started not too long ago about what it's like when a clutch goes, it didn't seem to suffer any of the other issues like revs flying, high speed changes going slow etc so I was a little confused and wondering if it was a throttle issue or something more technically I wouldn't have a hope of understanding.
A few calls later and I was recommended by Alan at Amersham to try and do more regular clutch learns; blindingly obvious now but it wasn't before. And the long story-cut short is that after clutch learns almost daily for 2 weeks it is now driving almost perfectly again. I for one had no idea quite how important it was so although in the long term one doesn't need to do it this frequently, you can be sure that if you have a Sportshift - it absolutely will be a better drive if you do them fairly often!
Just a reminder to you V8V SS owners to get clutch learning!
For those that don't know what 'Clutch Learn' is: From cold and with the air conditioning turned off, foot on brake and start car, hold brake for 10 secs or so until you hear the clutch 'click'. Switch off and then repeat the process 3 or 4 times.
It is recommended to 'regularly' carry out the clutch learn process on the Sportshift gearbox and I had been doing it approximately every fortnight on my car. It gets driven 5-6 days of the week and I live in the centre of London so the majority of my journeys involve a bit a stop-start and traffic. Recently the car had started to suffer a small judder on pull-away, only from a standstill and not all of the time - uhoh!
Reading back on a thread I had coincidentally started not too long ago about what it's like when a clutch goes, it didn't seem to suffer any of the other issues like revs flying, high speed changes going slow etc so I was a little confused and wondering if it was a throttle issue or something more technically I wouldn't have a hope of understanding.
A few calls later and I was recommended by Alan at Amersham to try and do more regular clutch learns; blindingly obvious now but it wasn't before. And the long story-cut short is that after clutch learns almost daily for 2 weeks it is now driving almost perfectly again. I for one had no idea quite how important it was so although in the long term one doesn't need to do it this frequently, you can be sure that if you have a Sportshift - it absolutely will be a better drive if you do them fairly often!
Just a reminder to you V8V SS owners to get clutch learning!
For those that don't know what 'Clutch Learn' is: From cold and with the air conditioning turned off, foot on brake and start car, hold brake for 10 secs or so until you hear the clutch 'click'. Switch off and then repeat the process 3 or 4 times.
mikey k said:
Taking pictures and videos of other peoples cars ? 
That's what passengers are for!Truth is with constant town driving it just gets very tiring on the left foot. I can happily agree the manual car may be better for the trips to the Alps etc but most of my driving minutes are in town so it's much better while still having an element of fun that a traditional auto can't offer.
yeti said:
What a faff.
A proper manly manual gearbox for the win
A proper manly manual gearbox for the win
HAMISHHAVOC said:
I spoke to Rick a while ago about a similar judder when moving off on my manual box V8VR, and he told me to do the same thing as has been described for the sportshift box! There is an audible click after about 10 seconds as well. He said the manual clutch also has to check the biting point
Ouch... yeti...?? 
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