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03-09-2008, 09:55 AM
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30000km, no problems, I learned to drive stick on an old truck, the cobalt is my first car, I was pretty hard on the clutch for at least the first 10000, and I still am at times, and I have had no problems at all, I hear people complaining about their clutches and I think WOW they must be really abusing their car, because I'm hard on mine and it's held up strong
03-09-2008, 10:09 AM
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If you want to defend crap parts thats your thing. I'm saying they could be much better. I've owned cars that can handle god awful amounts of torture and not break. The Cobalt is not one of them.
03-09-2008, 07:10 PM
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I would expect the "Super Sport" model to have a better clutch. I would expect an 07 SS to have a better clutch than a 20 year old Nissan. Its not the case though. My 240SX I wedged a VG30ET into got plenty of clutch dumps. I'm talking 1st, 2nd and 3rd gear tached to 6000rpm car not moving clutch dumps. Stock clutch too by the way. The tires would light up even with 3rd gear dumps, not the clutch. Matter of fact when I pulled the engine out, the clutch still looks ok. I could power brake the 240SX on pavement with the clutch for christ sake. The Cobalt still hasn't seen anything even remotely close to the abuse that Nissan got.
If you want to defend crap parts thats your thing. I'm saying they could be much better. I've owned cars that can handle god awful amounts of torture and not break. The Cobalt is not one of them.
If you want to defend crap parts thats your thing. I'm saying they could be much better. I've owned cars that can handle god awful amounts of torture and not break. The Cobalt is not one of them.
03-09-2008, 08:46 PM
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well....here are some options! sell your car and buy something diff., buy new "HD" parts or try to convince the dealer and show(factual) examples of similar probs. if they are a GOOD dealer they will take care of you...at least a discount on the work. OR you can waist your time, energy and keep complaining and not enjoy what you do have!!
03-09-2008, 11:19 PM
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Well.... I did buy a "HD" clutch. Guess what? The clutch doesn't slip anymore. I also didn't have to convince the dealer of anything. I used to work for them so they always hook me up. They also know how I treated all my other cars. They agreed with me, if a 20 year old POS can take that kind of horrid abuse there is no reason a brand new car can't take a few hard launches or a few hard 1-2 shifts. They installed the new clutch free. They even bought the the stock one back from me.
didn't you know? we can't drive our cars and we must be losers because we're getting flamed by some guys on a super cool forum. haha
told myself i wasn't gonna do this but since everyone can't stop talking **** on people who are trying to help...
**** you. seriously, just go **** yourselves. this was to help others. I guess you selfish ******** would laugh at someone who fell in the street and was injured instead of helping, because it's the same principle. if your going to persist in throwing virtual **** just forget it; I'll give up. I'll walk away and you can go back to getting off and cumming on yourself because you were so cool to talk **** to some guy who was trying to be nice online. all because you were too ******* dumb to actually understand those longs strings of words, grammar, intelligence and punctuation he typed called sentences.
******* jitbags. run a train on me? i hope that you have a girl who gets her ass slammed by a bunch of guys when you're at work and you come home and take a big ******* lick of those guys' jiz you ******* ****. take your dick out of your sister and go get an education you ******* retard.
later.
03-09-2008, 11:46 PM
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**** you. seriously, just go **** yourselves. this was to help others. I guess you selfish ******** would laugh at someone who fell in the street and was injured instead of helping, because it's the same principle. if your going to persist in throwing virtual **** just forget it; I'll give up. I'll walk away and you can go back to getting off and cumming on yourself because you were so cool to talk **** to some guy who was trying to be nice online. all because you were too ******* dumb to actually understand those longs strings of words, grammar, intelligence and punctuation he typed called sentences.
******* jitbags. run a train on me? i hope that you have a girl who gets her ass slammed by a bunch of guys when you're at work and you come home and take a big ******* lick of those guys' jiz you ******* ****. take your dick out of your sister and go get an education you ******* retard.
later.
******* jitbags. run a train on me? i hope that you have a girl who gets her ass slammed by a bunch of guys when you're at work and you come home and take a big ******* lick of those guys' jiz you ******* ****. take your dick out of your sister and go get an education you ******* retard.
later.
I might see your point if everyone here had clutch problems , but it seems like a bad clutch isn't as common as you would like to believe.
03-10-2008, 12:16 AM
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Well.... I did buy a "HD" clutch. Guess what? The clutch doesn't slip anymore. I also didn't have to convince the dealer of anything. I used to work for them so they always hook me up. They also know how I treated all my other cars. They agreed with me, if a 20 year old POS can take that kind of horrid abuse there is no reason a brand new car can't take a few hard launches or a few hard 1-2 shifts. They installed the new clutch free. They even bought the the stock one back from me.
03-10-2008, 12:24 AM
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check this out!
http://www.***************/forums/tr...000-miles.html
http://www.your ***********/forums/transmission/7841-bad-clutch-14-000-miles.html
http://www.your cobalt .com/forums/transmission/7841-bad-clutch-14-000-miles.html
just delete the spaces
http://www.***************/forums/tr...000-miles.html
http://www.your ***********/forums/transmission/7841-bad-clutch-14-000-miles.html
http://www.your cobalt .com/forums/transmission/7841-bad-clutch-14-000-miles.html
just delete the spaces
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03-10-2008, 12:53 AM
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dude we should just give up. you obviously get what I'm saying. it's apparent that they lack the general intelligence to understand the whole point. again, my clutch issue was a result of someone else. They are failing to miss that this thread was created not to file an actual suit but for people who have had an issue with shitty parts to realize they aren't alone and to come together.
didn't you know? we can't drive our cars and we must be losers because we're getting flamed by some guys on a super cool forum. haha
told myself i wasn't gonna do this but since everyone can't stop talking **** on people who are trying to help...
**** you. seriously, just go **** yourselves. this was to help others. I guess you selfish ******** would laugh at someone who fell in the street and was injured instead of helping, because it's the same principle. if your going to persist in throwing virtual **** just forget it; I'll give up. I'll walk away and you can go back to getting off and cumming on yourself because you were so cool to talk **** to some guy who was trying to be nice online. all because you were too ******* dumb to actually understand those longs strings of words, grammar, intelligence and punctuation he typed called sentences.
******* jitbags. run a train on me? i hope that you have a girl who gets her ass slammed by a bunch of guys when you're at work and you come home and take a big ******* lick of those guys' jiz you ******* ****. take your dick out of your sister and go get an education you ******* retard.
later.
didn't you know? we can't drive our cars and we must be losers because we're getting flamed by some guys on a super cool forum. haha
told myself i wasn't gonna do this but since everyone can't stop talking **** on people who are trying to help...
**** you. seriously, just go **** yourselves. this was to help others. I guess you selfish ******** would laugh at someone who fell in the street and was injured instead of helping, because it's the same principle. if your going to persist in throwing virtual **** just forget it; I'll give up. I'll walk away and you can go back to getting off and cumming on yourself because you were so cool to talk **** to some guy who was trying to be nice online. all because you were too ******* dumb to actually understand those longs strings of words, grammar, intelligence and punctuation he typed called sentences.
******* jitbags. run a train on me? i hope that you have a girl who gets her ass slammed by a bunch of guys when you're at work and you come home and take a big ******* lick of those guys' jiz you ******* ****. take your dick out of your sister and go get an education you ******* retard.
later.
03-10-2008, 04:02 AM
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i drive the hell out of my car...hell my transmission has been replaced because of it...the clutch? still stock with almost 40k miles...its all in the way you shift...i have had mine slip a long time ago when i didnt know how the **** to drive (also why i had to put in a tranny) in the 1-2 shift...if you are spinning at the end of first when you shift to 2nd its going to slip...also make a practice of shifting at 3k rpm during normal driving
03-10-2008, 04:29 AM
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Wow, this thread went down hill quickly, didn't it? For the record, 50,000+ miles, no clutch problems, and I love to drive as it was put earlier "*cough* sporty". Of course, now I'm deployed and the wife is using it as her dd, so I'm figuring about 2 more weeks and clutch. 
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03-10-2008, 05:19 AM
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Luck??? No, skill. I have 2 Cobalt SS's.
2006 SS/SC has 42,500+ miles on the stock clutch, full season of racing last year, many long road trips, lots of accelerations to rev limiter due to short freeway on ramps, and lots of mountain driving. No problems.
2007 SS/NA sedan w/ 5-speed has over 15,000 miles on the stock clutch. Started seeing racing within 6 weeks of purchase, a few long road trips, including a trip for Salt Lake City, Utah to College Station, Texas, lots of accelerations to rev limiter due to short freeway on ramps, and lots of mountain driving. No problems.
As you said, it may have been due to the previous owner and the fact that the first time it was repaired it wasn't done right. Luck had nothing to do with it. Let your tech fix it. It should have been covered under warranty anyways if it only has 319 miles. Go fix it and don't start throwing legal action around. So far, it sounds like your issue with the previous tech that did the repairs, not GM. For the record, I grew up in a home of people who work in the legal field. I think I know enough to know that you're only mad and probably can't afford to start a law suit anyways. You have to start the suit at your own expense, then you have to find co-plaintiffs, then you have to petition the court to make it a class action law suit and try to gets the courts approval. Good Luck.
2006 SS/SC has 42,500+ miles on the stock clutch, full season of racing last year, many long road trips, lots of accelerations to rev limiter due to short freeway on ramps, and lots of mountain driving. No problems.
2007 SS/NA sedan w/ 5-speed has over 15,000 miles on the stock clutch. Started seeing racing within 6 weeks of purchase, a few long road trips, including a trip for Salt Lake City, Utah to College Station, Texas, lots of accelerations to rev limiter due to short freeway on ramps, and lots of mountain driving. No problems.
As you said, it may have been due to the previous owner and the fact that the first time it was repaired it wasn't done right. Luck had nothing to do with it. Let your tech fix it. It should have been covered under warranty anyways if it only has 319 miles. Go fix it and don't start throwing legal action around. So far, it sounds like your issue with the previous tech that did the repairs, not GM. For the record, I grew up in a home of people who work in the legal field. I think I know enough to know that you're only mad and probably can't afford to start a law suit anyways. You have to start the suit at your own expense, then you have to find co-plaintiffs, then you have to petition the court to make it a class action law suit and try to gets the courts approval. Good Luck.
03-10-2008, 07:47 AM
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Wow, this thread went down hill quickly, didn't it? For the record, 50,000+ miles, no clutch problems, and I love to drive as it was put earlier "*cough* sporty". Of course, now I'm deployed and the wife is using it as her dd, so I'm figuring about 2 more weeks and clutch.
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