New Helix Performance clutch now slipping.

[roaddetective]

I am after some sympathy here guys. Lol. Picked up the car today after all the work they did on it. Oil seals leaking, ruined new Helix clutch and flywheel, coolant leak etc. The bill was £2255.14. The garage did help out a fair bit as they have completed a bit of expensive work for me in the past, as that bill was with a 20% discount.                                                                     Just adding onto this post, if any of you guys are having a new clutch put in your motor, replace a couple of oil seals at the same time. We all know about the poor rear engine oil seal, but the VW specialist who worked on my car has had a few of these motors in for the same problem I had, a leaking gearbox seal that leaks all over your clutch. It's got to be worth replacing these two oil seals at the same time as replacing your clutch, Saves having to get the gearbox out again to do them later. You don't want the sort of bill I have just paid!!!!!

Edited 14 January, 2022 by roaddetective

[DC04R]

The joys of car ownership. If it makes you feel any better, I have a friend with a ferrari 456 (1996) and the radiator had a leak, no probs you'd think. Oh no, ferrari radiator is £6k for the part!!

[roaddetective]

1 minute ago, DC04R said:

The joys of car ownership. If it makes you feel any better, I have a friend with a ferrari 456 (1996) and the radiator had a leak, no probs you'd think. Oh no, ferrari radiator is £6k for the part!!

That is some price, still it is a Ferrari. I dropped in on my mate Nick today, who I have known for over 50 years. He has his own small garage one man business mending and building Porsche cars, engines and gearboxes etc. He is like an artist with the excellent work he does. Anyway, he asked me to guess the price of the engine he has just built for a classic 1969 Porsche 911 he is completely refurbing from the ground up. I guessed 20k. He said the pistons and liners on their own were £10k. The price was over £50k.  I took a photo of the engine while I was there.  Can't imagine what price his customer will be paying when the car is finished. Some car people live in another world to me, money wise that is. 

[Ads230]

Slight revival of this post 12 months' on 🗓️ - had a new Sachs organic clutch fitted last week at local garage QST, and thanks kindly @roaddetective for highlighting the requirement for replacing seals, as it was the first thing I asked about.

 

Reassuringly, they sort those out by default as part of the service (due to their experience of the same thing that has happened with other vehicles, and especially on this thread). However, I've referenced this thread itself as to 'why I asked', and if there is an issue with it in future that I'd refer to this 😅.  I also had my water pump replaced at wondrous expense...

 

Running in clutch for first 100ish miles has been issue-free (thus far). Standard effects felt re: heavier pedal, slight vibration on slow-speed manoeuvres, quicker engagement. Am looking forward to proper use post-350+ miles, though fingers crossed I don't have a similar issue as above 🤞