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Has anyone experience this with a valeo clutch. This clutch kit has less than 4 month installed. 3 trackdays the rest is daily car. The disk broke down and nobody can tell me why this happened
 
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Old 11-08-2015, 03:20 PM
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Are you sure it was properly installed?
 
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Yes. It was properly installed. With the centering tool. It was working fine until that happened
 
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I was more curious about whether the front/back orientation was correct.
 
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Yes the flat side of the disk was mounted to the flywheel side.
 
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Then its a mystery!
 
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Before taking it out. You can see that the long part of the disk is to the pressure plate side.
 
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Never seen that on a MINI. Been using Valeo for a while now.

Wonder if the disc was damaged in shipping on the press rivets, then missed on install ?

The boxes can get smoothed pretty easy.
 
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Never seen that on a MINI. Been using Valeo for a while now. Wonder if the disc was damaged in shipping on the press rivets, then missed on install ? The boxes can get smoothed pretty easy.
I bought it from your site.
 
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I bought it from your site.

Please contact our customer service and let them know what happened, so we can send this onto Valeo. 1.800.924.5172 or customerservice@ecstuning.com

Possible it could have been damaged somehow in shipping, do you remember the box being crushed or anything?
 
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