I did a uturn it squawked the tires a little and got a really heavy burnt clutch smell lasted couple of minutes sitting in the fast food drive threw. 5 minutes later I go to leave and jump on a 60mph road in a small window of traffic and my car gets to 20mph and the clutch slips and I rev to 7500 in a big hurry. I let it calm down try to accelerate again and it just revs up. 3rd try it grabs and I can accelerate again. Clutch smelled for over an hour. Glazed flywheel?

3 hours later after no driving I'm testing to see if the clutch is slipping at all. Everything working perfect. Hard acceleration from first was fine. doing 50 and flooring it in 6th, still grabs fine no slipping. I've driven 15years on manual transmissions and had one clutch go out at 200k miles. So I have an idea of what it feels/acts like. Usually once a clutch starts to go its noticeable all the time. Not slip one day and grab the next. My dad says dual mass flywheels are junk but wanted some opinions from you guys. This just really caught me off guard and was very dangerous. Any help is appreciated.

addition info: 08 coupe S bought with 25K miles, at 40K now. my 15K I put on is 90% highway. I know how to drive a stick and never had a clutch go out on me from abuse, and like to think I have been pretty easy on this clutch. VDC was ON the entire time.

Solution: Over heated my Clutch. If I smell my clutch again, I'll let it cool down before driving aggressively to ensure no further slippage.

 

Not withstanding doing insane speeds on public highways, according to my gear chart, 3rd tops out at 99 mph at 7500 rpm.

Maybe you just overheated the clutch... Lucky you didn't blow the engine.

 

Please see rule #5. Don't post anything like that again .

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Didn't know rev matching a downshift was "brutally abusing my clutch". Now I know, been doing it my whole life. Won't post speeds like that again without modifing my story to include "while at the track" to the first sentance.

 

It is. At the speed you mentioned you were going, you cant "rev match" that to 3rd gear. As you can see, it becomes problematic beasue it's not made to handle that sort of abuse. That is the wrong gear for that speed. That's why you smelled the stench of burnt clutch for over an hour.

Track stories of high speed are perfectly acceptable. Encouraged.

 

There was no smell from the high speed incident. only mentioned it as I thought it might have played a roll for some odd reason. I rev matched near the red line but it was nothing over the red line. When I gave speedo estimate on the down shift I know the RPM band well enough to know approximate what speed I'm going when down shifting. It was a 7000ish rpm downshift, watching the road not all my gauges. The smell occurred an hour later after first doing the uturn and then really slipping 5 minutes later. At which point it continued to stink for an hour after.

Either way can't get the clutch to slip at all, everything seams normal. Never had a clutch slip like that before and be completely fine.

Jsolo, perhaps your right maybe the U turn I did heated up the clutch a lot and 5 minutes later when pulling into traffic it was still hot and just slipped like mad. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the input.