My Renegade is barely over a month old and has 3800 miles on it. Today the vehicle is no longer driveable due to a bad clutch. I have never heard of a clutch going bad so **** soon! I still can't believe it. I have owned two manual vehicles before, and only had to replace one clutch on one of them so I know I don't drive that bad and actually would consider myself to be at least adequate with driving a clutch.
I don't start from second, i only depress it when I need to and I try and give it as little gas as possible when starting.
Now I have done some work to my Renegade to make it more off-road ready and have done a grand total of 3 off-road trips. The first being less than an hour long drive (sway bar came loose so had to turn around), the second being on a pretty easy drive (I posted a video of the highlights of it on the video section) and then one day on another trail that lasted about 3 hours before I hit the limit of the Renegade.
Now I will be the first to admit I have never gone off-road in a manual, so I was definitely burning the clutch getting used to it especially when trying to go over some rocky terrain on an incline, but I never thought I pushed it too hard. I did smell burning when having to ride the clutch pretty hard a couple of times to get over some rocks, but after something heavy I would let the clutch cool off.
For arguments sake let's assume I treated the clutch like **** in the ~7-10 hours of off-roading I have done, I don't think that would even be enough to make a clutch go bad after 3800 miles.
Still don't even know what to say or do about the situation. Tow company is picking it up tomorrow morning and taking it to the Jeep dealership, where there is about a month wait for service and they won't give me a loaner vehicle. I would think that if your car is under warranty they would have to provide you a vehicle no?
Also what do you think the chances are that Jeep will make me pay for a new clutch myself?
I don't start from second, i only depress it when I need to and I try and give it as little gas as possible when starting.
Now I have done some work to my Renegade to make it more off-road ready and have done a grand total of 3 off-road trips. The first being less than an hour long drive (sway bar came loose so had to turn around), the second being on a pretty easy drive (I posted a video of the highlights of it on the video section) and then one day on another trail that lasted about 3 hours before I hit the limit of the Renegade.
Now I will be the first to admit I have never gone off-road in a manual, so I was definitely burning the clutch getting used to it especially when trying to go over some rocky terrain on an incline, but I never thought I pushed it too hard. I did smell burning when having to ride the clutch pretty hard a couple of times to get over some rocks, but after something heavy I would let the clutch cool off.
For arguments sake let's assume I treated the clutch like **** in the ~7-10 hours of off-roading I have done, I don't think that would even be enough to make a clutch go bad after 3800 miles.
Still don't even know what to say or do about the situation. Tow company is picking it up tomorrow morning and taking it to the Jeep dealership, where there is about a month wait for service and they won't give me a loaner vehicle. I would think that if your car is under warranty they would have to provide you a vehicle no?
Also what do you think the chances are that Jeep will make me pay for a new clutch myself?