Reid6ix
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Okay so where to start with this. Bought a brand new GT back in April and it was great. I’m 22 so as you can assume I drive the car hard. Has very simple mods but nothing engine wise. So back in November I had a issue with the clutch and it locked me out every gear. Got it towed to ford and they call me a week later and say they took it apart and it was complete clutch failure. Said specifically that there was no material left on the disk. The 19’ has a twin disk. Should be able to hold stock power well beyond the 11,000 miles the car has. Okay so they quote me 1900 and some change to replace it with a ford factory clutch. Nope, so try to warranty it and they obviously won’t but I was told that if it looked like a factory defect or failure, they he would warranty it. So kept putting it off and wouldn’t let me see it with my own eyes. You could hear material in there when it let out. So clearly something serious broke. Well this is all just in time for McLeod to have a 20% off sale on their RXT twin disk for my car so I bought it and ford put it in. Crazy they did that but they did and charged 850 for labor so came out just over 2,000 said and done and have a clutch that won’t break. Cool. So get the car back and I kept the OEM clutch to keep. I’ve attached some pictures of it. The disks are fine. Still plenty of material left and so that was a lie. From what it looks like a rivet broke off and the bands for the pressure plate separated and broke. Now has any one ever seen clutches like this break? I don’t know much about twin disks but I have never seen any clutch break this way. Opinions? I’m looking for some information before I go after ford to refund the labor cost. Because in my opinion, this looks like a factory defect or warrantable issue. Thanks.
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