I replaced the clutch today on my mirage, after seeing alot of stories about others having the same issue ( failed damper springs) I'm pretty convinced I'm going to get rid of the mirage now. IMO the clutch is horribly under-engineered I had plenty of life left in the disk but all the damper springs were broken, the hub has ALOT of play in where it connects to the splines, the rivets on the backside of the hub have been worn down by the pressure plates fingers. I'm pretty upset about the difficulty of working on it as well. I've said for years it's only a 3 cylinder so it must be easy to work on. But IMO its just as rough to do a clutch in a mirage as any other fwd. Some components are lighter but that's about it. Talk me out of trading this thing in for a miata guys 🤷*♂️
Edit: just wanted to add I thought it would be easy to work on these cars because it makes less torque than a decent impact gun. I expected it to be put together more like a side by side in terms of simplicity considering the small engine.