vintagecarman said:
Makes me wish I would of taken my NSX to Acura and got a factory clutch and no hassle!
I've had my NSX clutch replaced twice, and both times the dealer and the clutch were super.
The first time was in May 1991, in Ohio. The starter ring gear came off the flywheel, and my NSX was disabled. On a Saturday, of course. I flatbedded it to the dealer, which was open even though the service department was closed. Even though I (obviously) had no pre-scheduled appointment, they looked at the car on Monday morning. Since the NSX was fairly new, Acura's Techline advised the dealer to replace the entire clutch, as a precaution in case anything else was affected. They didn't have a clutch in stock - remember, the NSX had only been on the market less than a year, so people weren't replacing clutches yet - so they overnighted the clutch to the dealer from the parts warehouse, and it arrived Tuesday morning. Their NSX tech had been trained in clutch replacement, but this was his first time doing so on a customer car. He finished it up on Wednesday and I was on my way. No problems with it at all.
Fast forward eight years and 38K miles including 6250 actual track miles. The second time was in Michigan, two hours from home. The clutch just WENT, suddenly inoperable. I drove it to my regular dealer with no clutch, with as little shifting as possible. (I took the long way via one expressway instead of the other one that had toll plazas, which in those days involved coming to a complete stop.) My dealer does a fair amount of NSX service work, and they had a new clutch in stock, so they got on it first thing Monday morning (even though, again, I had no pre-scheduled appointment). They determined that one of the springs had broken, but that there wasn't all that much friction material left on it anyway, so it was time to replace it either way. I picked it up a couple days later, and again, I was on my way. No problems at all with it.
So, to summarize, both times I was able to get my clutch replaced with just a few days downtime, even though it had failed without warning and I just showed up at the dealer with the car without any prior appointment. Each time, the work was done properly, and I was on my way, neither discouraged nor disgusted.
As my Mom always taught me, if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all... even if it is meant to be helpful. I know you have taken that same vile attitude with me too in the past.
