clutch issues...

[RS4Molar]

24000 km, slight difficulty in engaging 1st gear, bite point on engagement of drive is high up ??
Yes, clutch on the way out ?
Options: 1. replacement with OEM; 2. JHM lightened flywheel/performance clutch plate; 3. Sachs kit; 4. Stasis upgrade.

Discsussion please regarding best option for me.
Cheers
Molar

[mac4RS]

Stasis upgrade.

I have heard of these and by all accounts quite good...

[scottie1979]

Wouldnt necessarily assume it is on its way out especially with the low ish mileage. I have these symptoms you describe also but they dont worry me. there are so many variables but the best way to tell is to test if you are getting any clutch slippage?
Certainly not unheard off for it to fail so early but fingers crossed for you.

[P_G]

Clutch return pipe issue. When was your car registered RS4Molar?

[sonny]

I was going to say the same. the dreaded clutch hydro pipe splitting?

Get it into a dealer pronto.

[scottie1979]

really? are there any other symptoms of this clutch return pipe issue that i should look out for.

[RS4Molar]

Clutch return pipe issue. When was your car registered RS4Molar?

September 2007, Australian car.

[P_G]

It may be a possibility?

[rs4_power]

I had same issue with my Rs4, Got it checked out by dealers and had clutch replaced under warranty

[RS4Molar]

Ok, Occasionally finding it difficult to engage 1st gear ?
Would that be the clutch plate not coming off the fly wheel for 1st to engage ?
spongy, woolly feel - 1st time on cold start, then after 20 km or so, feel cam back.

This sounds like slave cyclinder ?

Thoughts

I am thinking of bleeding the clutch fluid and investigating...
before new clutch to be put in....

Molar

[mrozard]

i also have had clutch problems, apon driving the car hard the other day i lost the clutch travel. it was ver low. funny thing is i could still change gear and it did not slip? i pulled it up with with the top of my foot and it worked as normall. then epc light flashed??

[sonny]

hmmm I would say that its the split pipe, the more you use it there damage it will cause, shattered clutch and damaged fly wheel most likely.

If it gets to the point where you cant not crash the gears, turn the engine off, engage gear, turn engine on and let the car drive in that gear, only to be used in an emergency, happened to me last year in France off all places.

[mrozard]

ok sonny, got it booked in for next monday. got a few other bits that need lookin at. think the brakes are warped! nearly new tho!
yeah cars always let you down when your far from home! fact...
part from a few niggles so far so good, thank god ive still got four months extended audi cover left!!

[sonny]

Beast that warranty mrozard

[^Qwerty^]

i also have had clutch problems, apon driving the car hard the other day i lost the clutch travel. it was ver low. funny thing is i could still change gear and it did not slip? i pulled it up with with the top of my foot and it worked as normall. then epc light flashed??

Sounds like what I had with mine. I could get it to do it 'on demand' when driving hard and could even feel it building up to it. Basically I'd be doing a bit of 'spirited' driving and then when I went to change gear the pedal would stay on the floor. 1-3 seconds later there would be an almighty bang, and the thing would start working again properly. This went on over a period of a few months, with the car going back in to the garage to have parts changed. Still never got the bottom of what caused it, but it was fixed by putting a new clutch in.