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After sleeping peacefully for the past fine months while I was in Europe, disaster struck the very day I brought my 92 G60 out of storage.
Without any warning while accelerating on the freeway on-ramp, I started bouncing off the rev limiter. Knowing I didn't miss the shift, I immediately pulled off the road too see what happened.
Couldn't put the car in gear nor could I push the clutch in. Guy nice enough to stop bled the clutch which allowed proper movement, but the car still wouldn't go into gear.
Had it towed to the dealership. By visual inspection, they have determined it was a 'catastrophic failure' of the clutch, which in turn destroyed the flywheel, which in turn destroyed the starter.
They have quoted me $500 for labor and $900 for parts. Anyone care to chime in on whether this is a fair estimate?
I've never had any clutch problems -- no slippage, strange smells, etc. Why did it just fail like that?
Obviously this isn't a good time for this to happen!
Thanks,
-Chris
92 G60
Without any warning while accelerating on the freeway on-ramp, I started bouncing off the rev limiter. Knowing I didn't miss the shift, I immediately pulled off the road too see what happened.
Couldn't put the car in gear nor could I push the clutch in. Guy nice enough to stop bled the clutch which allowed proper movement, but the car still wouldn't go into gear.
Had it towed to the dealership. By visual inspection, they have determined it was a 'catastrophic failure' of the clutch, which in turn destroyed the flywheel, which in turn destroyed the starter.
They have quoted me $500 for labor and $900 for parts. Anyone care to chime in on whether this is a fair estimate?
I've never had any clutch problems -- no slippage, strange smells, etc. Why did it just fail like that?
Obviously this isn't a good time for this to happen!
Thanks,
-Chris
92 G60