I'm at 82k miles and I'm starting to feel my clutch slip a little.

For those of you that didn't change them prematurely, at how many miles did you change your clutch/flywheel?

 

I recently purchased an 07 G35S with 116k miles from the original owner. Original clutch. I negotiated and budgeted for a new clutch/flywheel install based on this. Now, it's just a matter of time. It was still grabbing strong this morning in the light, Friday commute.

 

86k miles, until one night wouldn't go into fear and had to send it to the shop, went ahead and went for a JWT clutch and Flywheel with zspeed concentric slave and oem master

 

Damn you guys are scaring me. I just hit 80k and mine feels excellent. I don't know if the previous owner changed it but I doubt it.

 

driver dependent...

 

60K on OEM.

 

My 06 G35 6sp manual at trade in in Aug 2012



Still had the OEM clutch, alternator, starter, and first set of replacement brake pads and OEM rotors and most all other OEM parts except for CSC and the wiring harness.

Parts longevity depends a lot on how you drive.

Telcoman

 

Bought my 2010 6MT in March with ~57KM (not miles), clutch felt perfectly fine. Had to change it @ 60KM last month. I didn't drive it hard or anything

 

104,000 miles...original clutch...no signs of slipping.

 

It all depends on how the car was driven.

I sold my camaro at 83K on the original clutch. It never got dumped or abused. Whenever taking off i'd try to minimize clutch slippage. Some folks drive manuals by revving up (1500-2K), then slowly letting the clutch out. This is not how to properly drive a manual. While it works, it will wear the parts out quickly.

So far about 18K on the G, don't really expect to do a clutch at least for another 40-60K miles or more.

Buying a used car, you never really know how it was driven in the past regardless of what the owner says. I suppose when buying a higher mileage manual car, budget for a clutch replacement in the near future.

 

This.

The misconception is that the "passive" driver will have a longer clutch life than the "aggressive" driver. This correlation only proves true if both operators use the same, flawless technique. It all comes down to proper technique. There are thousands of manual transmission operators on the road. However, the number driving their car correctly is much less. Wanna know if you are using the correct technique? Pay for a professional racing instructor for an hour or two. They'll let you know real quick.

 

86k miles on mine, not original owner though but I am pretty sure that it is still the OEM clutch. Haven't had any issues yet luckily as I don't have the budget to replace it soon. Only weird thing I noticed recently that only has happened twice was trouble getting it to go into reverse.

 

about to hit 131k. still on the OEM clutch only replaced my clutch master cylinder

 

got my 2005 g35 with 52k on the clock. had to do clutch at 58k

 

08' G37s Coupe at 116,500 miles and still going strong. OEM Clutch.