# How long could one drive around with a failing clutch?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-long-could-one-drive-around-with-a-failing-clutch/91217>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 19, 2015, 8:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-long-could-one-drive-around-with-a-failing-clutch/91217 "2015-09-19T08:45:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-long-could-one-drive-around-with-a-failing-clutch/91217/21 "2015-09-20T18:26:10Z")

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" How long can you drive a car with a failing clutch ? " Until the car will not move- question answered.

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**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-long-could-one-drive-around-with-a-failing-clutch/91217/22 "2015-09-20T20:33:23Z")

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**Author:** ![missileman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/missileman/32/1366_2.png) [@missileman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/missileman)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-long-could-one-drive-around-with-a-failing-clutch/91217/23 "2015-09-21T17:53:25Z")

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I helped my uncle haul some furniture yesterday. His old pickup has a failing clutch but it’s been failing for 2 years now. If you baby it…it will last a long time depending on the make and model. He has a V8 full size Chevy. When my clutch started failing on my 2001 V6 S-10…it was completely gone in a couple of days.

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**Author:** ![MG-McAnick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mg-mcanick/32/188_2.png) [@MG-McAnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MG-McAnick)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-long-could-one-drive-around-with-a-failing-clutch/91217/24 "2015-09-22T16:39:40Z")

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A friend brought me a Subaru Legacy wagon for a pre-purchase inspection. I found that the clutch was slipping by putting it in 5th and putting my right foot on both the brake and gas pedal. When I let the clutch out, it simply continued to run. I suggested that he take a pass on the purchase, but he negotiated a much lower price instead. He was still driving the the car with the same slipping clutch THREE YEARS later. I guess there is a lot to be said for babying a clutch.

I’ll never use a tree. Today’s plastic bumpers are way to fragile.

Quoting @towtone

> “His MGB’s clutch cable broke somewhere in NC”

  
I know it’s an old memory, but ALL MGs have had hydraulic clutches since 1956. Perhaps his clutch’s master or slave cylinder failed.

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