Sorry I left you hanging on that one, Jonboy I’m not quite a stock or proven partsNazi as June but I am close. These car parts from Sweden/Belgium shipment last 20 years/ 200k miles, the cheap parts just don’t. They are right for some, if you are going to drive it lightly for five years buying 20 ye...

Mine lasted 5 years and about 70,000 miles more before the clutch plate gave up and fragmented. I think there are role here with even longer reported success

Mine lasted two years. When I took a look, the bread clips were gone. Instead of moving to the zip tie method (which should hold nicely), I just took clutch plate off and replaced shims inside clutch. That as last year. Haven't even tried things this year to see if the AC works.. Just driving so lit...

If anyone needs shims I bought a bunch on one of my FCP orders - I can mail for a stamp vs $9 shopping for a 90 cent part.

I could also give dimensions as any steel washer would do here.

The gap wasn't bad yet, but the bearing on my pulley was making noise at 100K miles, so I went replacing the bearing (with a quality one) and in the process you can remove a shim to adjust the gap (there's 3 shims of different thickness inside). Now at 135K miles, being fine ever since www.youtube.c...

my zips has been holding up for at least a couple of years. more like 3-4 I think. And I bought them at HF!

I have zip tied three P80 car compressors, all are still holding. Longest is past 5 years by now, based on my posts over in that other thread.

I did the zip-tie fix in 2012, still working (though the UK isn't really the most punishing environment for an air-con system.) I did find that I got the same symptoms as a worn air-con compressor clutch (air-con cutting out and not re-engaging without a "rest") when the alternator was fai...

Fair enough. So, I might be good for a couple more years (I'm in North Carolina and its been in the 80's the past few days - brutal days are ahead, temperature-wise). Seems to be holding for now, nice and cool. I figured (maybe incorrectly?) that in order to replace the clutch plate that I would ha...

Watch orangex video and you can see the puller in action