Clutch pedal, has anyone got to the bottom of problem

[R1RS4]

Just a quick report back on my clutch issue, which was if I went from a standing start at say 4k approx car would pull away but spinning the clutch then the clutch pedal would loose resistance and stay about half way down, strong smell of burning clutch ... No not good

Put the car into Camberley Audi, they changed the clutch return pipe, job done.... Feels great.... Fingers crossed it continues

[KGRS4]

Just a quick report back on my clutch issue, which was if I went from a standing start at say 4k approx car would pull away but spinning the clutch then the clutch pedal would loose resistance and stay about half way down, strong smell of burning clutch ... No not good

Put the car into Camberley Audi, they changed the clutch return pipe, job done.... Feels great.... Fingers crossed it continues

Excellent news! I need to get this done to mines!

[scaghead]

Got the car back last night, and it drives like a dream..as said before I asked them to change everything if nothing was obvious as being the possible problem..which turned out to be the case...
Parts I had changed were...
Flywheel,clutch pressure plate,clutch plate,master cyl,slave cyl,pipe hose lines,release brg, bolt n 906 650 01 (10), socket he bolt n903 086 07 (6) and a litre of dot 4 brake fluid...
Touchwood I should be fine now..

[jaysrs4]

Holy moly, I bet they had your pants down for all that?

[The_Coat]

Good here you are all sort mate

[Surrey Sam]

Got the car back last night, and it drives like a dream..as said before I asked them to change everything if nothing was obvious as being the possible problem..which turned out to be the case...
Parts I had changed were...
Flywheel,clutch pressure plate,clutch plate,master cyl,slave cyl,pipe hose lines,release brg, bolt n 906 650 01 (10), socket he bolt n903 086 07 (6) and a litre of dot 4 brake fluid...
Touchwood I should be fine now..

Ouch...well I guess that's one way of getting to the bottom of the problem.

At least you can now enjoy it mate and you also have the benefit of a 2 year warranty on all the parts.

[scaghead]

Cheers fellas...could have messed about changing the pressure plate and seeing if that worked..but if it didn't , then you try something else and it could go on and labour costs would have been silly..unless you know the exact cause,you are taking a gamble...just glad it's done and I can enjoy the car over the summer ...I love this car..

[scaghead]

Holy moly, I bet they had your pants down for all that?

You have obviously never met me fella..

[MikeFish]

Holy moly, I bet they had your pants down for all that?

You have obviously never met me fella..

LOL

So did all that lot sort it out?

[The_Coat]

Cheers fellas...could have messed about changing the pressure plate and seeing if that worked..but if it didn't , then you try something else and it could go on and labour costs would have been silly..unless you know the exact cause,you are taking a gamble...just glad it's done and I can enjoy the car over the summer ...I love this car..

That's it mate, in the long run you have saved money and safe in the knowledge that it's all been replaced.

[scaghead]

Holy moly, I bet they had your pants down for all that?

You have obviously never met me fella..

LOL

So did all that lot sort it out?

Yeah mike all sorted mate.. hope you and the family are keeping well fella..

[jaysrs4]

Holy moly, I bet they had your pants down for all that?

You have obviously never met me fella..

No you are right fella, I don't think you've ever met me either! Why, do you wear big pants?

[sync24]

Holy moly, I bet they had your pants down for all that?

You have obviously never met me fella..

Jase - u r funny ....

[vwgolf32]

New clutch and flywheel

[irishmike]

Just to follow up on my thread from earlier in the year - (Thought it was better to update here)

http://forum.rs246.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=106465

I had the dreaded sticky clutch.
Back in March the garage replaced the master and slave cylinders.
I was told that all hydraulics were replaced but someone was fibbing to me!!

Drove fine for 3 months...
Anyway about 3 weeks ago I stated to get the sticky clutch again.
And it was happening more frequently than before.
Back onto the garage and they admitted that the return pipe had not been replaced back in March.
They also said that my warranty was up so I was on my own
So back into a local indy and got the pipe replaced.
That worked for a few days, but sticky pedal came back again and ended up not being able to select gears at all.

Quite annoyed at this stage so got back onto the garage where I bought the car, they agreed to get it into Audi for a checkup.
Audi came back saying that the pedal itself was broken, it was comng back up too far, bout an inch further than the brake. (the indy garage had noticed this and said it would need sorting too)

Anyway Audi's diagnosis was that the broken pedal was causing the sticky pedal, which in turn was burning the clutch out.
Need a new clutch pedal assembly and full new clutch at a cost of 2k

Luckily enough the original garage has agreed to cover it - even though I was out of warranty. (Got talking to the right boss!!)

So I'll have it back next week with all replaced - looking forward to it.