Meineke Worst experince ever. Aurora, Colorado

..I am not taking sides here either way. But I hope everyone is aware that clutch wear has NOTHING to do with shifting into gears. If a clutch is worn, the vehicle will not move very well in ANY gear..but it will still shift into any gear with no problem.

The only way a clutch would fail after a year is due to severe abuse.  Obviously, this is not covered by any warranty -- someone who is really determined can destroy a clutch in a few hours.  Either have someone teach you how to drive a stick correctly, or get an automatic.  You are probably either riding the clutch or slipping it for too long.  The throwout bearing probably also failed due to abuse (holding down the clutch for too long instead of shifting into neutral).

Please tell me if I missed something here.

You had your clutch replaced about 3 years ago.  About a year later you had problems again, where it wouldn't shift into gear.  Okay...up to here you MAY have a problem.

But if it wouldn't shift into gear how could you drive it another two years?  If it was good enough to drive for TWO YEARS, not sure how you could make the claim that it was bad and needed to be replaced under warranty.

But let's skip ahead two years to now.  You have enough money saved up to now replace the Transmission.  You go and find out it was actually the Clutch.  A Clutch would be less than the Transmission so you could use that money for the clutch instead and still have some left over.  I guess just trying to figure out why if it is the clutch and you have the money to replace it why do you need to be without the car?

I'm not saying that you weren't Ripped Off.  But the time to fight for the Warranty replacement was two years ago.  Not sure if there is anything you can do about it right now.  But I do hope that you actually went to another place to get a second opinion as to what the problem could be.