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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:12 pm

My clutch is about gone! Badly!

Thinking about upgrading it rather than just getting a standard bmw one put on

Any suggestions which kit to get and where from?

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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:45 pm

anyone?????
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:14 pm

The standard BMW one is as good as you get or need without going to a paddle friction plate that you'd anly need if you were going serious racing. And the next step byond that is the multiplate type but they are Ԛ£Ã”šÃ‚£Ãƒ”šÃ‚£Ãƒ”šÃ‚£Ãƒ”šÃ‚£
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:15 pm

as said standard is rocksolid mate :thumb:
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:19 pm

i think the standard ones are the best......i havent changed my Auto's one since new...can that be right or am i smoking the good shit????
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:29 pm

Would that be because an auto doesn't have a clutch?
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:30 pm

:yeahthat:
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:35 pm

Daz you are such a post whore.
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:36 pm

who me??? :lol:
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:45 pm

Yeah you you WHORE

Automatics have torque converters BTW.

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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:48 pm

yeah torque converters :lol:

how can you say such a thing widge?? im :clin: :lol: :lol:

im in the top 20 you know :lol: :bolt:
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:50 pm

Exactly you whore :lol:
How has that happened you've only been here 20 mins :roll:
I'm catching up though - but then I'll just go on holiday again and find you have 30000000000 more posts than me when I get back :wink:
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:58 pm

:cool:

hey i went on hols for a week or id have 5000 by now :lol: :lol:
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:00 pm

Hmmmm 1991 that was a long time ago!!!!
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:01 pm

those were the days :cool:
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:09 pm

Widge wrote:Yeah you you WHORE

Automatics have torque converters BTW.

whore daz

ok i see a torque converter, learn something new everyday.....thanks whores :wink: :wink: :D :lol:
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:11 pm

auto's do have clutches iirc

they dont wear hardly tho due to the auto box knowing how to change gear properly maximising the clutch life if you see what i mean
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:30 pm

now im confused, so my car has a clutch and that means its got a 14 year old clutch??!?!, because i cant remember it ever being changed
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:46 pm

auto's rarely if ever need the clutch changing
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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:15 pm

ok standard it is then!

Now how about brakes? oz av just been for a good drive n they about gone too!

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Post Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:16 pm

Ahheemmmm - the ZF auto transmission in an E30 auto (IIRC) has a torque converter. I would gos as far as sayin very few autos actually have clutches in the normal sense of the word, although there have been many types of auto gear box over the years. Although having said this an auto box does have lots of little clutches and brake bands inside it which rarely wear out, unless it's mistreated in which cas the boxes just tend to give up.

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And for brakes - Green stuff are good - but expensive - I'd go for Pagid fast road pads from GFS and standard OEM disks.