{"id":198,"date":"2008-01-28T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T02:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-01-28T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T02:33:22","slug":"a-new-clutch-for-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/28\/a-new-clutch-for-15\/","title":{"rendered":"A new clutch for 15 €"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been having problems with my car’s clutch for six months. I was told I would need a new clutch. I got a "new" clutch for only 15 €!<\/p>\n

Last summer my Daihatsu sirion limosine needed a new clutch [German: "Kupplung"] cable. \"Daihatsu Being seven years old and having run some 90,000 miles, that was no surprise. However, after the cable was installed by my Daihatsu dealer, I was surprised by how difficult it was to shift gears. Things got so bad the last couple of weeks that I called the dealer to complain. In the last ten years I bought 2 Daihatsu Sirions from him and had regular maintenance worth hundreds of € done in his shop. He said I need a new clutch. That surprised me, since my driving style is fairly moderate. So I went to a independent repair shop just 500 meters from my apartment. The shop is run by a Turkish mechanic, and Jesmina Allaoua discovered the shop about a year ago when her aging VW Golf needed some work. The fellow did a good job, so I took my Sirion over there and asked if he could take a look at it. He opened the hood, felt the tension on the clutch cable, adjusted a tension screw and that was it. My clutch shifts like a hot knife going through warm butter. "Someone wanted to sell you a clutch," was his analysis. He did not even want to be paid for his five minutes of work. I gave him a 15 € tip and decided that my maintenance visits to my local Daihatsu dealer are over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been having problems with my car’s clutch for six months. I was told I would need a new clutch. I got a "new" clutch for only 15 €!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}