I have about 30000 miles on my max. The clutch is slipping when I downshift and put my foot back into it. The dealer says that the clutch is a wearing part like brakepads and isn't covered under the warranty. They said the same thing about my rotors and I fought with them about it and won. I'm just wondering if they're lying agian. Anybody else had any problems with their clutch at this mileage or lower? How long should the clutch usually last?

 

A clutch should last to at least 75k, easily.... I think most could do 100k and not mind. I thought the clutch was covered under the 36mo/36k thing????? I'd be real ****ed if my clutch went at 30k....

 

Man, if the clutch is a wearing part like brake pads, then it should last longer than 30K miles! If it doesn't, it's a manufacturer defect, hence SHOULD be covered under the warranty. Have them fix it, no charge!

 

ACT clutch!ACT clutch!ACT clutch

 

Under "normal" driving conditions, you should get 75K+ miles on a clutch. My last Accord clutch was still good to go when I traded it in with 141K. However, in the past, I have buried a clutch in 25K miles. Lots of side steps, every shift at redline, etc. If you drive relatively normaly and only punish the clutch every now and again, I'd do everything possible to get it fixed under the warranty.

Good luck.

 

So they're talkin about how I should put in a performance clutch and clutch plate and some other stuff from Stillen. The Stillen Parts came up to like $350 and then grounding this and grinding that and labor the total was like $975. That sounds WAY too high. What's the average or what has anybody else paid for a new clutch, performance or otherwise?

 

Yeah the clutch should last at least 65-75k miles under normal conditions. I had same problem, except it happened at 5000 miles. They gave me some **** about wear and tear and I told them get real - what kind of clutch burns out after 5000 miles - one made like crap obviously. They ended finding out that the master cylinder was to tight and it was grinding the flywheel, thus the clutch was fried and they covered it under warranty. Anyway, 30,0000 miles, you are going to have a tough time making them agree to warranty work - since they can claim that you have a "rough" driving style and stuff like that and you have had the car long enough that they might be able to get out of warranty work. but raise hell and see what happens...good luck!

 

A factory replacement clutch at a Nissan dealer will probably cost about the same.

 

I know it's not even the same class of car, but the first clutch in my old 1990 Toyota Camry was only like 30% worn at 100,000 miles. We had the tranny ripped apart then because of a bad synchronizer in 2nd gear, so we went ahead and replace the clutch then just for the hell of it since it was cheap and they already had the whole transmission ripped apart anyways.

At 200,000 miles we checked it and it was again only 30% worn after another 100,000 miles (damn that was a solid car).

Granted, most of the miles on that car were highway, but it still did a good bit of in town city driving as well, and it did get mildly abused revving the engine a bit and slipping the clutch to keep the car stationary on a slight hill (bad habit of my dad's), but even through all of that the clutch life was very good.

The Maxima is clearly a different beast than my old Camry, though, but I would think that with normal (non abusive) (that does not imply SLOW ) driving you guys should be able to get some serious mileage out of your clutches. Maybe not 100k, but definitely up there somewhere.

 

do you guys think nissan is trying to get over since it is my wife that has been taking the car down there i feel they see female and start bull****in. they tried to do this to me before when my rotors warped at 15k they tried to give the wearing part crap. we *****ed and they replaced it im getting sick of nissan love the car hate the people behind the scene. they need a costumer service revamping