Clutch issues

[cheshired5]

Originally Posted by Tiw5679

Stage 1 by Shark so it was a massive increase and obviously way too much for my clutch 🙁

What are the claimed figures for bhp and torque?

[Tiw5679]

Originally Posted by cheshired5

What are the claimed figures for bhp and torque?

235bhp and 500nm torque!

[GrahamBrown1]

There’s your problem, 500nm of torque on a clutch and flywheel not really designed for that amount. You would certainly have to be careful in how you drove it to avoid ruining another standard clutch set up and then what would be the point of the remap. There’s an old engineering saying “you don’t get something for nothing” or in my case owt for nowt and this proves it. Don’t forget the gearbox has a torque limit also and you don’t want to be paying for that.

My personal opinion, if you want a car with that sort of go then perhaps cut your losses and buy one suited to the job and you won’t be disappointed.

[Tiw5679]

Originally Posted by GrahamBrown1

There’s your problem, 500nm of torque on a clutch and flywheel not really designed for that amount. You would certainly have to be careful in how you drove it to avoid ruining another standard clutch set up and then what would be the point of the remap. There’s an old engineering saying “you don’t get something for nothing” or in my case owt for nowt and this proves it. Don’t forget the gearbox has a torque limit also and you don’t want to be paying for that.

My personal opinion, if you want a car with that sort of go then perhaps cut your losses and buy one suited to the job and you won’t be disappointed.

Fortunately I have something else with a fair bit more power, I was only having it done not for more power but was advised if driven normally would improve the fuel economy! I wasn't bothered about the extra power I just wanted to get a few extra mpg out of it! It's back to standard now and that's how it's going to stay now unfortunately!

[NigelDay]

This shows why Polestar is a better way forward as the power gain is more modest and the guarantee is unaffected.

[scoobysn7x]

I've had 4/5 cars remapped, and had this has happened twice with me but both cars were 80k+, but I figure at that kind of mileage the clutches were probably coming to the end of their lives, once, I had the clutch/DMF changed I had no further issue with either map, one of them was a Shark Stage one on a T5, and it was brilliant.

I think in general if you car is over 80k your probably going to be remapping a car with a clutch at the end of its life. Luckily my last C30 D3 had the clutch go 2 days after I got it and the garage changed it, had the car remaped staright after and had no issue with that at all :-).

My current V60 is on 125K on the original clutch, as soon as it goes I'll be getting a remap done, I won't do it now as it'll definately finish the clucth off