transmech clutch kits?

[baggabones]

Need a new clutch for my 924, just done a search and euro car parts list a transmech kit at £90 (although out of stock at the mo')...against a sachs kit for about £160 from frazer parts or design 911... thoughts please? Anyone got any 1st hand experience on the ecp one?....or just pay the extra and go for what I know?

[cobblers]

Three times I've knowingly had Transmech clutches in my cars and all three times they have failed in under 10k miles in bizarre ways. One of them slipped like a sod after only a few thousand miles despite looking fine (I think the pressure plate was very very weak) another had the center of the plate shatter - the springs fell out and it made a right old mess on my flywheel, and I've seen another where the friction material had come apart in chunks.

Personally, I wouldn't fit another even if it was free.

[welshpug]

also had poor experience of them myself on a customers car, a release bearing was binding in a bellhousing on a Peugeot pull clutch, so it slipped and toasted itself :/

never had issue with QH, Valeo, Sachs or Luk

[ferny]

I did some research into them when I needed an mx5 clutch. Didn't take me long to close the Google page and buy an exedy one.

[shin2chin]

As its a job you definitely only want to pay for once go for the Sachs.

[Steve79]

Don't even contemplate a transmech clutch. Got one for a saxo from euro carparts and it had only half the friction material thickness of a Luk or Valeo kit. Plus, the quality of the release bearings are awful and have had one of these fail after only 10 miles. AVOID, thats is all! ☺

[froggy]

On small engines 106/punto /Clio /fiesta not a problem. Fitted hundreds of trans mech in the last 10yrs but wouldn't risk one in anything bigger .

[rodney]

found a couple to have slight judder on pullaway ,only thing ive found so far , but as said they aint the best qualiy,.

[baggabones]

Many thanks for the feedback...guess you get what you pay for

[ejenner]

Had the middle explode out of a transmech clutch immediately after fitting. Never again!

[incarsolutions]

avoid at all costs. not good a good rep at all. the one time we did fit one was to a 1.4 golf as it was all we could get hold of at the time. Needless to say the box was back out the following day for the luk clutch to be fitted as the transmech one destroyed itself

[whitz]

I stuck a transmach on my modded cinq ive done so far 10,000 miles and i give the clutch so much stick I'm amazed it lasted this long, and ive only blown 1 gearbox up



Ash

[ChasR]

Jul 31, 2014 17:00:26 GMT welshpug said:

also had poor experience of them myself on a customers car, a release bearing was binding in a bellhousing on a Peugeot pull clutch, so it slipped and toasted itself :/

never had issue with QH, Valeo, Sachs or Luk

I have indeed too. On an Espace where I was after the cheapest clutch possible the clutch became heavier than a race clutch with the LUK item, and it shuddered like a car with an iffy release bearing. The clutch was literally a switch.

I am not sure if I would go for an LUK clutch again. On a few Mundaneo TDCIs I have seen a few too many faulty flywheels within 100 miles (vibrations coming back quite badly!) and on my V6 the centre plate spider separated itself from the centre plate in 100 miles (fortunately for me the garage supplied and fitted the clutch). A specialist locally when I was asked to supply a clutch said he would not warranty a LUK clutch if it failed going by his experience.

Aug 1, 2014 4:52:28 GMT baggabones said:

Many thanks for the feedback...guess you get what you pay for

Indeed, especially on a car where a clutch is a royal pain to chain when compared to other cars.

[vtecpowergt]

The only time I will ever use a transmech clutch is on a car with only a limited time until it gets scrapped they have to be one of the worst clutch's you can buy the always judder avoid unless you want to do the job twice .

[ChasR]

Absolutely right.

The only reasons I bought a Transmech clutch for that Espace were that:

-the biting point was higher than Bob Marley
-it slipped on anything other than a downward hill with a wind behind it
-it was quite heavy (this was in part due to the old cable).
-the car was bought on a budget (where it would have to work in that criteria) and so I repaired it as cheaply as possible limited by my lack of workspace/experience/ramp for such a job. With the Transmech clutch being the cheapest (£25 cheaper than the Valeo item) it was chosen. I mean, how bad could it be?

But the clutch was:

-heavy
-have a biting point as bad as a racing clutch (i.e like a microswitch (similar to a race clutch I experienced this week if I am honest!))
-Heavier than before despite the new cable (you could argue that the pressure plate may have caused this).

I guess once the car served its purpose I could say the car had a new clutch...

[baggabones]

Sachs ordered and should be here today....got a good discount, so only 70 quid more....got to be worth it for piece of mind