Hi all

Fairly new to car maintenance and repairs. I think I might need a new clutch. Just wondering if anyone can help me confirm this before I have an expensive repair job done.

The symptoms are that, usually when going along in 2nd or 3rd gear, the revs shoot up from 2500rpm up to 3500rpm and above for a few seconds, then will drop back down to where they were before. It's most worrying when I'm going up a steep hill.

But it doesn't happen all the time. It happens usually first thing in the morning as I set off for work. But as it warms up the problems seem to go away.

It's been through 72000 miles.

Basically, I think it's new clutch time. But does anyone think any differently?

Cheers

Sounds like it, and 72k is a fair life.

Agreed that it sounds like clutch slip, but mine is on 86K and counting.

So much depends on traffic and driving syle tthough. If you get get less than 60k, then I'd say you either have a very tedious commute, or you're hammering it. The other way, the sky's the limit. Sympathetic driving and light traffic/lots of cruising could potenitally see hundreds of thousands of miles.