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Originally Posted by HPsauce
Thinking back to that comment, now you've had yours out and found only wear (similar to mine?) maybe this needs to be viewed as a "consumable" replaced maybe on a similar cycle to the cam belt?
Looking at mine carefully I could see a bit of "clumping" of the lubricant/grease so do wonder if it's just a combination of wear, debris etc. making it less reliable as it ages. The sliding contact design doesn't really seem to be engineered for tens of thousands of operations, after all it moves presumably every time there's a gear change, maybe with changes in torque converter slip as well?
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I think you might be right in that it seems to be a known failure item at around 100k. Do we have any data collected on when these have failed on forum members cars? If none, then perhaps we could ask. For info my mileage was at 109,700.
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20th November 2016, 12:55 PM
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