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From: warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Response summary on Rabbit clutches
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Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 11:58:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  4 11:58:26 1984
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A long time back I asked for experience on the life expectancy and
repair costs on a Rabbit clutch.  I got about 10 responses, out of
which only one person with a Sirrocco driven 80K miles in the hills
had replaced a clutch.  Several of my respondents had over 130K
miles on their car with no troubles.  (One replaced a throw-out
bearing for a cost of $6 in parts in 1/2 hour of work).  At least
one of these cars had been driven quite hard.

From this I would conclude that apparently the clutch is likely to
last a lifetime.  I have no information on what is involved in
repair, but it sounds like it's unlikely anyway.  (The other thing
that I observe from my informal survey is that in spite of some well
publicized early problems, rabbits must last a long time to get as
many high mileage respondents as I got.)  

Thanks to all who replied. Sorry for the long delay.

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	Warren Montgomery
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