Reversing uphill V12V (clutch wear.)

[cayman-black]

Lawts0908 said:

Oh, and I now wished that I had been warned about this when I bought the car from AM. Something I feel that all manual owners should be made aware of at their handovers.....

Absolutely! I still feel my cars pain....

[spyker138]

With very powerful cars slow manouvering is safer with higher gearing - in a tight space a slight mis feel of the clutch could launch you somewhere unfortunate. An issue on inclines but safer otherwise.

[Lawts0908]

No! Give me the lower gear any day and help preserve my clutch. I cope ok with the power going forwards, so I’d take the risk equally in reverse!!

[AstonV]

Lawts0908 said:

No! Give me the lower gear any day and help preserve my clutch. I cope ok with the power going forwards, so I’d take the risk equally in reverse!!

I agree, I would love back up my driveway, but never do it. I backed uphill once, very short distance, brand new V8V and could smell the clutch burn. It is really unacceptable the things that Aston had years to sort out, but never did.

[David W.]

AstonV said:

Lawts0908 said:

No! Give me the lower gear any day and help preserve my clutch. I cope ok with the power going forwards, so I’d take the risk equally in reverse!!

I agree, I would love back up my driveway, but never do it. I backed uphill once, very short distance, brand new V8V and could smell the clutch burn. It is really unacceptable the things that Aston had years to sort out, but never did.

Winch cable onto the rear towing eye or turntable has the be the answer
DW

[Lawts0908]

Excellent idea! I’m welding one on tomorrow!,

[dwell]

"I agree, I would love back up my driveway, but never do it" - for the first year that I had the V8V I had a steep driveway that I had no choice other than to reverse up - being a sportshift it would either stall if revs too low or spin the wheels if revs to high - or occasionally I got it just right and it moved smoothly up the drive. The clutch smell was never pleasant and worried me considerably. However, that was 5 years and 30,000 miles ago and the same clutch is still going strong with no sign of a need for replacement. These cars are perhaps tougher than we sometimes believe.

[Lawts0908]

Let’s hope so. I felt like I had used up 50% of my clutch life during those two ‘reverse up hill’ episodes!