well as the title says my baby has 2800 miles and i was buzzing along and decided to do a 3rd gear pull. well i ran it up to about 80mph then grabbed 4th. well i tried to grab 4th anyways when i hit it she started bouncing off the rev limiter at 7K now keep in mind the clutch pedel is out! i let go of the gas and it caught but it stunk like hell!!! what in the world would cause the clutch to not engage like that?? well anyway now she slips like hell if i'm to aggresive from 1st to 2nd and 2nd to 3rd... normal driving seems ok. I called up my technician buddy at the dealer he talked to the service manager (i used to work at that dealer as a porter years ago so the service manager knows me) they told me bring it in. they'll warranty it. so i got lucky. i just can't believe the clutch is fried already...

 

At least it's being warrantied.

 

get use to it. Crappy Clutch.

 

this is true i'm really lucky they said they would warrenty it. i actually called my tech buddy to see how much he'd charged to install a clutch so my warranty wouldn't get voided. I was ready to pony up the green being i was told the clutch wasn't covered under warranty, but he said if it failed to engage thats an indication something else went wrong.

 

Yeah mine has done that a few times. I have 3900 miles on mine. It has done it in a while so I am just keeping an eye it to see what happens. Of course when I had it at the dealership it wouldn't slip at all. I was pissed.

 

my dealer said"they recently sent out a ss/sc for a clutch job,it was a plate I think they said,also they said"people are shifting at to low in the rpm range,and its causing "glazing" I think there is a thread about it.

 

i have 25k on stock clutch and i have no problems..

 

Y'all must be really hard on the clutches... mine's only slipped on me twice... and that was b/c I didn't know what I was doing and got on it at the wrong time. I've got 7500 miles now and she's been problem free ever since... read the sticky on how to drive these things and maybe it'll hold up longer for you.

Glad you're getting it warrantied though.

 

yeah i was reading that i'm definantly guilty of shifting below 3k i'm guilty of shifting below 2k at times so when i get it back no more babying her. no reason for a clutch to be fried at 3k miles. i put my 240sx with the vg30 thru hell constant clutch dumps, hole shots, power braking, its a stock vg30et/bwt5 clutch and its still strong. that poor car has seen more hell than the cobalt probably ever will.

 

You guys with these clutches???? Try and find you a BETTER AFTERMARKET CLUTCH! Sometimes you make me glad I went with a auto. Is it the driver or the clutch???

 

huh? bad to shift below 3k? who said that.. that

i shift at 2500-2750 all the time.. whoever said that

people just dont know how to drive a 5-speed i believe is the prblem

 

Guess you didn't read the sticky... https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/drivetrain-79/how-make-your-clutch-stop-slipping-find-out-inside-36130/

I try to stick to this method whenever I can... no problems so far.

 

not trying to be an ass..
but im not reading all of that.. 25,000 miles on stock clutch.. never once slipped.. its just how you drive the car .. thats what it boils down to..i never shift over 2800 unless im pretty much on it and i have had 0 hiccups at all.

 

Guess you're just lucky then... heheh.

 

maybe... i dunno..
i have had no problems with the car at all now that i think about it.. except for the cruise control doesnt work.. but who cares about that ****?

 

Ah... the cruise... that happened on my 2.4... my only real problems are the fact that my volume down button acts up, and this damn alignment that nobody can seem to get right.

 

not driving right? Lets see s-10 with a 4 speed clutch was fine as long as i owned it. fiero 4 speed clutch was fine on that. nissan maxima 5 speed i drove that like a race car 2 years clutch just as good as the day i got when i traded her in. 2 300ZXs 5 speeds they worked fine too. 240SX like i said that car doesn't get a break and its still working great. cobalts screwing up at 2800 miles hmmm sounds like a car issue to me. Its definantly not lack of driving experience

 

It's not really about shifting low or high, but rather how people shift. When you push in the clutch, the RPM takes longer than most cars to drop, especially at lower RPM. If you don't wait for the RPM to drop to match your speed in the gear you're shifting to, the clutch has to work that much hard to engage when you let go of it.

A lot of people are obsessed with shifting as fast as possible, regardless of how fast the car is moving or what RPM you're at. If you just take your time when shifting at low speeds, there should be no worries at all.

That said, if the clutch didn't grab at all from 3rd to 4th gear, that probably does point to a bigger problem. Even a shitty clutch should grab at that point.

 

when i went to 4th gear and released the clutch and mashed the gas it just bounced off the rev limiter for the second it took me to realize all was not well. when i let go of the gas it engaged and stunk like hell. like i said now it slips a lot. but i take it in monday morning to get it fixed.

 

my clutch has been changed when my car was over 5000miles, mine is a pontiac g4 2006 same as pursuit in canada and now g5 on usa 2.4lts mtx coupe i have the same problem my clutch was slipping so much that i even couldn´t drive safely on higway, and thats not all maybe this car isn´t made for the worst street in the world yea i reffer to mexico streets, because they changed my steering column and the intermediate shaft twice.