Is it bad to drive your car with clutch slipping?
01-12-2007, 08:45 AM
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Is it bad to drive your car with clutch slipping?
Ok, so Im pretty sure my clutch is slipping. Gonna get my car checked/fixed next week. But I need to drive it still until then. So is it bad to drive my car even though my clutch is slipping? Will my car get worse to where in wont be driveable if I keep driving it? My car runs ok now, just wont accerlerate as quick as it should be since my clutch is slipping. Will it get worse over time? Or will my car still keep driving fine with the clutch slipping and wont get any worse than it is now?
01-12-2007, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by SheDrivesIt,Jan 12 2007, 09:48 AM
It will get to the point where it will not move at all.
01-12-2007, 09:25 AM
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It all depends on how bad the clutch is. There is no way too tell how long you have. It should last till you get a chance to take it in, but there is no way to know for sure.
01-12-2007, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by neveronlines2k,Jan 12 2007, 01:25 PM
It all depends on how bad the clutch is. There is no way too tell how long you have. It should last till you get a chance to take it in, but there is no way to know for sure.
And it's unsafe both for you and those driving around you.
01-12-2007, 09:39 AM
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If your clutch disk is worn down to the rivets it may damage the flywheel and pressure plate enough to have them refurbished / replaced.
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01-12-2007, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by raymo19,Jan 12 2007, 10:27 AM
And it's unsafe both for you and those driving around you. A friend of mine got a used Mini Cooper S recently, turns out his clutch was a time bomb. He didn't even have any complaints until I got a phone call "dude. the clutch is gone."His clutch went out in the middle of the highway. Literally. He limped from the mid lane to the shoulder, all the time being dodged left and right by trucks, cars, and so forth.
This was on a pretty heavily populated (mainly trucks) highway with an 80mph speed limit (cars doing +100mph regularly).
So watch out dude, its no joke. Get that thing fixed ASAP.
01-12-2007, 10:27 AM
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the clutch can go from being ehh to none exsistent in a matter of 10 miles. It happened to me, got it back to my house put the parking brake on and forgot to take it out of gear, the car did not even stall
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