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I come from a country where most people drive manual transmissions, and the rule of thumb is that you're replacing the clutch at 150-250k kilometers. Automatics
by Two4 2y ago
I come from a country where most people drive manual transmissions, and the rule of thumb is that you're replacing the clutch at 150-250k kilometers. Automatics have torque converters instead of clutches, so that's probably a non-issue. I do imagine that they're much more integrated, and without a sacrificial clutch plate to take load shocks, the entire system will give out after a certain distance. This is all conjecture though.
- bombcar 2y agoFrom my experience I've never had a tranny fail that wasn't beat to death unmercifully. Clutches wear out, and it is possible to wear out an automatic transmissions' clutches, but I've never had it happen. Every car I've sent to the junkyard has had a working transmission.
- fragmede 2y agoAutomatics used to have torque converters. These days they've got multiple clutches are are mechanically more efficient and have more gears than a manual transmission. I still like my manual transmission car though.
- thrill 2y agoSounds about right. When my '96 BMW 328 finally met the pothole from hell, I was on my 5th clutch at a little over 500,000 miles.
- 486sx33 2y agoMy 1990 Nissan pickup made 380,000 km on its original clutch. 2.4 liters of 4 cylinders totally underpowered will do that. At least a starter every 100k and alternator every 150k though !