I had a clutch masters clutch (stage 1, on 2.5l engine) fail after 16,000 miles. What is up with that???

Heck, I even waited 3 months until they could ship me the darn clutch in the first place?

My OEM clutch lasted 42,000 miles, so I put in the heavy duty clutch ($500 parts, $500 labor), thinking it would last the life of my car. Given my poor experience with the OEM clutch, I have been babying this one. Here I am 12+ months later with no clutch.

I have driven over 500,000 miles on clutches, and they always last over 90,000 miles until I got the subaru. This sucks!

What to do? Sell the car, or is there a solution to my clutch woes???

Going to call them to see if they will warranty it. Anyone else had problems with them?

 

I bought a clutch master clutch too and it barely lasted 20k miles. Changing it this weekend to an exedy sport model and flywheel. I think my problem was I didnt replace the flywheel and probably should have. Who knows though, maybe they just wear out quick.

 

I guess they suck. I only got 16K out of it. Flywheel was resurfaced, and I drove on it much gentler than I did with the OEM.

I still can't believe it. I spent 500+ on the clutch, and 500 on the install total of $1,000- which was $400 more than the price I was quoted for the OEM like clutch. And, it is junk!!!

 

Use stock clutch, it saves gears. More grab = more load on trans.

 

A lot of people have not idea how good the clutch material actually is on a Subaru turbo clutch disc.

 

Actually, the idea was to use a stronger clutch plate, with a similar clutch disk. Thus, there would be no more "grab" just stronger pressure on the disk (this of course means a stiffer clutch pedal).

I have done that on other cars with great success. However, I will never buy a clutch master again.

Maybe I should try to fit a "turbo clutch disk" to my 2.5l. I want a stronger pressure plate than stock, and a similar friction material.

Hopefully the next (non CM) clutch will do better!

 

Single Plate Cerametallic

Single Plate Organic

Multi Plate Clutch

Hyper Single Clutch

Stock O.E.M. Clutch

 

Well, I put the Excedy on. Certainly the pedal is much softer than the Clutch master. Certainly expect this clutch to last longer than the 16,000 miles that pice of junk clutch master lasted...