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Re: VW Polo - faulty clutch?
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Re: VW Polo - faulty clutch? -
05-13-2007
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The car has done 50K and I'm pretty sure it still has the original clutch. The symptoms are, a heavy/sticky clutch pedal action and difficulty finding the gears - it seems to get worse as the car warms up. One important thing to note here is that the clutch does *not* slip at all. It had a new pedal box in 2005 (free of charge - a manufacturing fault) after the clutch pedal mechanism snapped on me. I recently drove a VW van and noticed the clutch action to be considerably lighter than the aforementioned car! Any thoughts before I hand over the best part of 500 quid? Cheers - steve <AT> steveevans <DOT> org - Change the cable to start with. I did that on our Lupo and it has made a |
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On Sun, 13 May 2007 14:09:21 GMT, Chris Bartram news (AT) delete (DOT) me.piglet-net.net> wrote: Steve Evans wrote: The car has done 50K and I'm pretty sure it still has the original clutch. The symptoms are, a heavy/sticky clutch pedal action and difficulty finding the gears - it seems to get worse as the car warms up. One important thing to note here is that the clutch does *not* slip at all. It had a new pedal box in 2005 (free of charge - a manufacturing fault) after the clutch pedal mechanism snapped on me. I recently drove a VW van and noticed the clutch action to be considerably lighter than the aforementioned car! Any thoughts before I hand over the best part of 500 quid? Cheers - Steve <AT> steveevans <DOT> org - Change the cable to start with. I did that on our Lupo and it has made a vast difference, and they're cheap from GSF. Sorry - I forgot to add that the cable has already been changed  - The clutch has had it. They don't fail by slipping very often nowadays, far |
get weak with age/heat and can no longer fully disengage the clutch. This
pic-
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...uff/clutch.jpg
Shows what happens, they are the old and new covers for a sierra I did many
moons ago.
Steve
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On Sun, 13 May 2007 14:09:21 GMT, Chris Bartram news (AT) delete (DOT) me.piglet-net.net> wrote: Steve Evans wrote: The car has done 50K and I'm pretty sure it still has the original clutch. The symptoms are, a heavy/sticky clutch pedal action and difficulty finding the gears - it seems to get worse as the car warms up. One important thing to note here is that the clutch does *not* slip at all. It had a new pedal box in 2005 (free of charge - a manufacturing fault) after the clutch pedal mechanism snapped on me. I recently drove a VW van and noticed the clutch action to be considerably lighter than the aforementioned car! Any thoughts before I hand over the best part of 500 quid? Cheers - steve <AT> steveevans <DOT> org - Change the cable to start with. I did that on our Lupo and it has made a vast difference, and they're cheap from GSF. Sorry - I forgot to add that the cable has already been changed - steve <AT> steveevans <DOT> org - In that case it's probably knackered. |
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What the hell is that huge cylinder block on your photobucket page?! |
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
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The car has done 50K and I'm pretty sure it still has the original clutch. The symptoms are, a heavy/sticky clutch pedal action and difficulty finding the gears - it seems to get worse as the car warms up. One important thing to note here is that the clutch does *not* slip at all. It had a new pedal box in 2005 (free of charge - a manufacturing fault) after the clutch pedal mechanism snapped on me. I recently drove a VW van and noticed the clutch action to be considerably lighter than the aforementioned car! Any thoughts before I hand over the best part of 500 quid? Had the clutch changed on my Capri when I had a new engine put in. The |
in it - the thing causing the heavy pedal was the pressure plate.
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