High St Clutch Repair - dsuk81

Am i asking for problems if i let a national clutch repair chain who make their own clutches replace my clutch?

Their quote is £250 inc CSC vs £300+ from local garage (unkown clutch brand)

Ideally i would want a SACHS / LUK clutch, i know these can be bought for £100 inc CSC

Any advice?

High St Clutch Repair - Hamsafar

I used to work for for a big clutch remanufacturer named NAP.www.national-auto.co.uk

They would buy tonnes of used clutch parts, covers and plates, and wash them in caustic soda, drill out the rivets, sand blast the parts, grade them good or scrap, and then replace the springs and friction plates.

The finished product met the same peformance spec. as the original.

They were then clearcoted and boxed up in plain boxes or in Ferodo etc... boxes. Ferodo supplied their own friction and this was used in theirs.

I can see how these could be made badly, and some QC rejects were taken home by workers who gave them to friends but they often juddered.

In the early 1990s, the total cost of remanufacturing them was £17.50 average. They sold for £100s as car parts were dearer in those days.

You are right, SACHS and Borg & Beck were the best.

Some USSR cars such FSO or Skoda had weird home-made looking friction plates made of PVA, cement, asbestos string and brass turnings.

Edited by Hamsafar on 24/10/2012 at 18:28

High St Clutch Repair - injection doc

why not just ask the garage you trust to fit an LUK or valeo clucth kit. TBH they are the best, not sure about Borg and Beck.

I used to own a clucth centre and we used to fit up to 55 clucthes a week and the most trouble we ever had was with Borg snd beck.

Luk and Valeo was the most reliable.

High St Clutch Repair - Hamsafar

Maybe my memory failed me, maybe it was something else german sounding.

High St Clutch Repair - TeeCee

It'll be Borg & Beck.

Always had a good rep in my book, despite what others may say. Original fit on most high-end German cars of the time, which says something.