I am trying to get a feel for how long we can expect our orginal OEM clutches to last. Please post your year (07 - 11), type (MC or MCS) and the miles you have on original clutch.

2010 MC, 3,900 miles so far.

Trying to determine if the replacement clutches are mostly on MCS, and around what miles they seem to be (prematurely) failing.

Thanks.

 

2008 MCS, 66,000 miles so far

 

2010 MCS - Clutch lasted 2,071 Miles! Anyone have me beat? Do I win a prize?

 

2007 MCS, 42,000 miles so far.

 

2010 MCS: 8,900 rev matched miles

 

Don't laugh...brings bad karma. I've revmatched in all my manual transmission cars, including the MCS. This is the only one to have a flywheel needing to be replaced, let alone be replaced at 2K miles.

 

at least you got it fixed

 

28k here and no problems

 

12 K miles and fingers crossed!!

 

July 2008- 28,000 miles.

 

Maybe another tidbit needed in this equation is how "spirited" the MINI is driven?

 

Very true! I only expect to get about 50-65k out of mine

 

I traded my leased 07 MCS in at 34k miles (Bought March07 and Turned in May 09). Clutch was fine
I got a 09 MCS (May 09) and i am currently at 21k. So far so good!

The 07 MCS had about 40/60 highway/local driving.
The 09 MCS was about the same for the first 9 months. Now i travel more for work and i only drive on the weekends. So the 09 gets more road trips and drives to my parents (90% highway). But when i say highway it is norther NJ highway so i can be deal with a lot of NYC caused traffic.

 

Great post! I'm looking at buying an MCS with 50,000+ miles on it and I'm wondering if I need to worry about replacing a clutch in the near future.

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2008/6,500 miles and counting

...by the way maybe MINI clutches are prone to wear out quick hence the topic, but I had 278,000 miles on my Jeep and same clutch, 176k on our Camry and clutch is still going fine, 24K on my Porsche and clutch is still great. ....in fact I've never had to replace a clutch on any car.

 

2009 cooper s. still going strong at 22k. I don't track it, but I drive pretty aggressive. No drag launches either.

 

'07 MCS 46k

 

'09 MCS, turned over 25,000 this morning. All is well.

 

2010 MCS ~5400 miles.

 

2010 MCS, 11,000 miles.
Clutch works well, but is a bit noisy...

 

2010 MCS ~ 5200 miles all is good. I've replaced one clutch in 32 years of driving manuals. That was a 87Mazda B2600 4X4 at 64,000 miles. My 97 Honda Civic EX had 154,000 on the original clutch when it was stolen and stripped.

 

2008 MCS ~ 39K

Bought it used though and the dealer advised me the previous owner brought it in complaining of a clutch issue, but the technicians never found any issue. I have had no problems at all.

 

07 MCS with 52k on it and I smoked 3rd gear on accident the other night. I was at a light thought I was in 1st ya I wasn't and well I hate the smell of clutch.

 

2009 JCW purchased new on 11-28-08. Driven like I stole it from day one. 19,000 miles so far. I am considering getting the OS Giken clutch as I do not think that this clutch will last a long time with the RMW tune.

1994 Acura Integra with 150K miles. Still has the original clutch.

 

We have:

'08 MCS driven pretty hard with 36k and knock on wood...no problems.
'09 MCS driven more conservatively 11.3k and no problems.

We take good care of our cars, have had 4- MINI's, all manual, no real problems.