clutch
 

lets say your sitting at a stoplight for a minute and you hold the clutch down, will this cause it to wear quicker than disengaging it :confused:

Yes. Disengage when you plan to stop for so long. One minute is long...

It doesn't wear the disk out it puts pressure on the pressure plate and throw-out bearing to sit there and hold the disk off the flywheel. Basically you are making the pressure plate and throw-out bearing do work when it does need to.

Just put it in neutral. :)

there's a reason why most people also replace pressure plate and throwout bearing at same time when replacing clutch disk ;)

Now let me dissent.

It is my considered opinion that the people at this site oft-times know too damn much for their own good. I am absolutely certain that they are technically correct about this clutch issue. I am also just as certain that it will make absolutely no measureable difference over the length of time you own the car. I always leave the clutch down at lights, and I've had cars for over 100K miles and never had to do a thing to the clutch. I had over 140K miles on my MX-6 (to cite a Mazda example) with zero clutch work. Yeah, if you're planning on keeping the car for a half-million miles or so, this might be an issue. Otherwise, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Unless someone is claiming that there's something special about the 8's clutch, but I don't believe I'm seeing that.

Krankor
05 Shinka 6MT