Clutch life - Fabia VRS

[Mat.M.]

Its occured to me today my 2005 Fabia VRS has covered 99k on the original clutch. I estimate 75% has been motorway driving. It feel like it has another few thousand left in it.

When was your clutch changed?

[XLBaconDoubleCheese]

130,000ish miles. Wasnt slipping at all, that was on mapped power. Was removed to put a uprated one in, with a hybrid turbo. DMF was fecked tho

[Mat.M.]

Good darts! - Edited the poll to suit!

[Guest BigJase88]

Blew mine to smitherines at 37k lol

[faboka vrs]

103k and still going strong.

[Fabia_19]

My elder brother has the pd100 estate with 125k on clock- pretty much all motorway driving and it's still on the original clutch- only mechanical parts done if I remember correctly- cambelt, disks, pads and other usual parts. This is one of the main reasons I brought a skoda

[mark.r.cullen]

My elder brother has the pd100 estate with 125k on clock- pretty much all motorway driving and it's still on the original clutch- only mechanical parts done if I remember correctly- cambelt, disks, pads and other usual parts. This is one of the main reasons I brought a skoda

Uprated mine at 125k ish and apparently didn't look too bad, had life left in it...

[Fabia_19]

Uprated mine at 125k ish and apparently didn't look too bad, had life left in it...

Very reassuring as long as you drive them carefully. I know it wasn't a vrs but still- can't complain

[E11HES]

nearly 110k on the original clutch in my vRS. It been mapped for about 8k on standard turbo, and 8k on 150 turbo. Plus the turbo was only replaced as i wanted a 150, not because that gave up. So i still have the original turbo, and still run the original clutch

Good old skoda

[opentoideas]

PD100 estate at 130K and no signs of problems and its been mapped for 20K of that.

injectors and turbo will be next so I expect to have to upgrade it for that but will wait for it to fail or at least start to show signs.

most of my miles are motorway but it does get a fair bit of spirited driving (read: abuse)

[Dark_Hero]

Just about to hit 110k in my vrs

[Neo_VR]

As far as im aware my remapped furby is still going strong on its orig clutch at 130k+

[The_Director]

Original clutch still going strong on my 04 VRS at just over 142,000 miles.

[M12MKD]

same clutch 105k on the clock and been remaped since 14k on the clock (8 months old). Been on various track days, santa pod runs and even the ring. Still fine though may possibly change it soon for peace of mind reasons.

[TorqueXIsXCheap]

Just coming up to 80k on the clocks, still seems ok touch wood. Will change it shortly along with the DMF again just for peace of mind more than anything along with a pd150 turbo to

[padi]

Clutch life is really down to driving technique drive sensible long clutch life. Drive like a boy racer idiot, short clutch life, its really that simple in most cases.

[musicmaster5000]

How do you know when it needs changing?

[XLBaconDoubleCheese]

Starts slipping

[wja96]

My car was first registered in August 2006, now on it's second cambelt at 140,000 miles but the original clutch is still there.

The car generally just does long-ish trips. It's very unusual that it does less than 40 miles once the engine is started and if it changes gear more than 5 or 6 times on that journey I would be very surprised. I reckon the clutch could go on a very long time yet.

[JIBYC]

130,000ish miles. Wasnt slipping at all, that was on mapped power. Was removed to put a uprated one in, with a hybrid turbo. DMF was fecked tho

Out of interest, how does a fecked DMF sound or act?

[Shammy]

Just over 164K - it's booked in to be changed next week as just starting to play up :(

Not bad seeing as it's been used for driving tuition since new.

[Guest BigJase88]

37k!

Am i the lowest?

[Titanium_Man]

Beats me... 69k, but purely down to the dmf failing 2 weeks after buying it and the garage I bought my car from kindly replacing the clutch at the same time

[FAVrs]

I am just coming up for 140K on my 2005 Vrs Fabia - a bit sticky sometimes getting into First or Reverse but doesn't slip. Is it likely to go suddenly, or can I go for a few more miles?

[VRSD30]

Original clutch was changed @ 133k, currently on 139k so it should last a we while

Edited 6 September, 2012 by VRSD30