Is driving fast bad for the clutch?

[der_kaiser]

By hard starts do you mean aggressive starts?

[Wayne]

By hard starts do you mean aggressive starts?

Yes 

[der_kaiser]

Ok I am guilty of this from time to time.

[+49]

Yeah driving fast won't damage the clutch much more than normal driving unless you include race Starts and lots of clipping the clutch..When i shifting fast througth the gears its a quick stab of the clutch pedal and i'm in the next gear...On my bike the clutch doesn't even get touched..

[Wazzzer]

bikes are soooo good for this 

[dom]

I bought my mk4 on 50k miles and had already had it's 3rd clutch installed

Previous owner must have been a crap driver

[Wayne]

I bought my mk4 on 50k miles and had already had it's 3rd clutch installed

Previous owner must have been a crap driver

  from what I can see mine has had 2 in 117k

[mcgee9t2]

as far as i know mines still on its first at 110k and still going strong, touch wood

[Wazzzer]

it's proper hit and miss and is mainly down to driving style

Mine died on about 58k but it's spent it's life over here with plenty of stop/starts

[golf-sib]

Mine started to slowly slip, but very rarely at 70mph with a full car at around 69k. All depends how its driven, how much load its had etc... to many variables, main one to look for is a woman owner