Well, its been a nice holiday for my BA, had the following done:

Rear brake shoes
Front brake pads
New oil filter
New engine oil
New clutch
New gearbox oil

Was going to fit the clutch with my dad, but the job seemed massive, i'll post prices on here later. He's driving back from the garage at the moment.

I've also managed to buckle my passenger side front wheel in two places!! Livid. So changed the fronts to the backs and vice versa. Only noticed while under the car, as its only the inside. Think i'm going to wait for the tread to go and then replace the wheels.

But at least it will all be happy now, and only changed the timing belt this year as well.

Its only done 57000 miles

You've only done 57k and you've changed your clutch?
Is this the normal life of the clutch?
If not when is it likely to go.

All that work, your car must be driving nicely now.

Yeah, its always been late coming in on the clutch pedal, don't think the people we brought it off looked after the clutch very well. I think gogobroom said he still hasn't had a new clutch after 137k miles or something?

Just think its my clutch. There not cheap to replace either.

How do you take care of a clutch? I aint got a clue about anything do to with clutches. Also how often does the gearbox need an oil change?

Whenever you have the car and in gear with clutch pedal depressed, the clutch is spinning and always slightly touching the plate from the engine. This wears it. Also if you using the clutch to balance the car on a hill, it wears it. So I always use the handbrake and neutral.

Gearbox oil was only changed as you have to do it when changing the clutch.

Thanks for that mate, i'll bare this in mind for future refrences whilst driving expecially up hills.

[quote="maylander739"]Yeah, its always been late coming in on the clutch pedal, don't think the people we brought it off looked after the clutch very well. I think gogobroom said he still hasn't had a new clutch after 137k miles or something?

Just think its my clutch. There not cheap to replace either.[/quote]

My Edith (1.8 ) is pushing 190,000 km's, and still on the original clutch !!