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Thanks to everyone for all the information that you've all contributed about he DMF/clutch issue! This is quite an experienced forum, the best I've seen yet!



Since I drive my car every day, in traffic, in all kinds of weather (well, all the kinds we get in San Antonio) and I don't auto-x/DE the car, I've decided to go with a stock DMF and clutch kit.



My car has 160,000 miles on it and still has the original flywheel and clutch. (Yes, I have all the maint records to prove it) and from talking to my Porsche guru they said that the problem was only with the earlier ones. The possibility of my flywheel/clutch lasting till my car has 300,000 miles, is fine by me!



I called my part supplier and I can get the DMF, clutch kit and all the bolts $1,300. I don't think that's bad.



I realize this is not the decision for all of us, I just think I'm better off with the stock setup for my driving.



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well, certainly any decision you make is yours to make, for whatever reasons you make it, and i am not one to try to swing you one way or the other on this - i think i've made my feelings clear on the DMF vs SMF topic, and that it is very subjective



just one point though - your guru seems to me to be making a judgement on something without any justification or reasoning - there is no reason that i can think of that the DMF issue would be limited to earlier cars - it is the same part in all years - there was no substitution or change in the part, so there should be no correlation to years - on what does he base this conclusion? frankly, most of the cars i've personally seen with the failure are 94 and 95, but then, i don't see too many early cars either - this is a fairly normal thing though with cars - it was the same with the pinion bearing - first we saw it in early cars, now we see it in all of them - as time goes on, and the mileage and age increase, these kinds of things pop up across the board



it is very likely that he is making that judgement based purely on age the of the car or mileage - therefore, next year, it will probably expand to include 93s, then 94s and so on



it is amazing that you got that many miles out of yours, and i think you should give lessons on how to shift - lol - many could stand to benefit from your technique



whatever you decide to do is fine, but i would make sure that any input has a basis in fact, and not conjecture



all that being said, you probably are making the right decision anyway

I weighed all of these options myself.

I will be doing limited DE/autoX, and deceided that day to day I dont want the noise or viberation.

I went the same direction as you. LUK DMF, Sachs Clutch kit, All new hardware, and will be doing the Rear Main Seal at the same time.



It was a hard deceision but I feel with less NVH it will be easier to sell the car down the line.

Patrick

Hard to knock it when the first one lasted 160k miles...



FWIW, I replaced my clutch/flywheel with Porsche stock on my F-stock car. I have not had an issue through two PCA clubrace seasons now.