Some quick updates:
2018-03-10 -- 293,418 -- Oil change (Shell Rotella T6 5W-40 Synthetic) with filter (Mann 924/4x)
2018-03-27 -- 294,139 -- Swapped to summer tires (brand new Firestone Firehawk Indy 500, 255/35-18 all around)
2018-03-29 -- 294,526 -- Cleaned air filter from GruppeM intake
2018-04-07 -- 295,923 -- Replaced D2S headlight bulbs (Osram Xenarc 66240 CBB)
One thing notably absent in the past 3k miles is... an oil top up. Hmm...
Me being me, probably forgot to put in an oil top up entry in there, but I also don't remember actually topping it up since the oil change, so who knows.
Adding to the list of needed items:
* Clutch, flywheel, throwout bearing, rear mail seal, pivot pin
These items will be done at failure or at 300k, whichever comes first. I'm really shooting for 300k just to say I made it 300k on the original clutch, but we will see! My throwout bearing was making some noise last week but the noise seems to be gone, so only miles will tell whether it'll make it to 300.
- The clutch isn't slipping and still can hold power just fine (did the 6th gear test and passed with flying colors).
- The dual mass flywheel is very worn. The car does not feel enjoyable to drive with the way it has worn. Letting the clutch out just has an extra 'edge' now that wasn't there before, and I'm having an incredibly hard time rev-matching, so I think something about the way the RPMs are rising/falling is different. It has an easier time getting to the stall point if I let the clutch out a little too quickly -- this behavior is hard to describe.
- The throwout bearing was very audible last week while pushing the clutch in to shift into gear. It actually startled me at first because I never heard that sound before in any car, and a couple of people told me what it was. It didn't happen every time I pushed the clutch pedal in, but it was once every few depressions on that one day only. It hasn't made any noise since. This only happened when I pushed the clutch pedal all the way in, so it didn't make noise while moving the pedal. As a note, I have a clutch stop.