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Old 05-24-2016, 09:51 PM
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When your driving lets say 40 to 80 MPH and you down shift quite often, will that hurt the clutch. I never driven a PDK Porsche or any paddle shift vehicle.
Old 05-24-2016, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by racer959
When your driving lets say 40 to 80 MPH and you down shift quite often, will that hurt the clutch. I never driven a PDK Porsche or any paddle shift vehicle.
computer rev matches so no.
Old 05-25-2016, 05:19 PM
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I will say no but I'm no engineer. It's an interesting question, so hopefully someone here will chime in with your thoughts.
Old 05-25-2016, 08:46 PM
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I hope not, because it makes me smile and giggle like a teenage girl everytime i do it
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AP claims the PDK internals can go on for a long long time.
Old 05-25-2016, 11:19 PM
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I think wearing out the PDK-S should be one of your last worries. If you do, I'd bet AP would pay to have a new PDK-S installed just so they could study the hell out of yours to figure out what happened.
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This Road & Track video demonstrating 50 consecutive launch controls (some off camera) with a PDK gearbox should allay a lot of concerns.

And for the record, for what it's worth, Porsche warranties the PDK for 100k miles.

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^that's with far more torque ur gt3 will ever smell!



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