S4dujour

seriously?

accelerating fro a stop, 1st, 2nd, then the pedal sticks to the floor.

I coast all the way to a stop.

once in neutral, wont go into gear.

Smells of intense clutch in the air.

pedal still will not come out.

will not go into gear.

Then, if I push harder on the clutch (as if possible), and really ram into 1st gear, the car starts to move itty bitty forward.

At that point I can push a tad on the accelerator to get some amount of speed, then hard shift into 2nd....

I was in a bad area...it had to be done. It was past midnight.

So I manage to get to 60mph on the freeway. I drive the rest of the way home....in the rain, trying to not go under 40 so I didnt have to shift. Praying for greenlights the whole way home.

After about 20 or so miles, i can start to feel the springyness back in the clutch. Its not back to normal at that point, but the tension has come back just a tad.

temp outside was about 60.

Then, about 6 jmiles after that, it starts to feel even more closer to normal, but still not like it was.

This morning, the whole thing is essentially non-existent, and totally NOT what it was like last night. Only differences now are that the shift point of the clutch is a tad sooner i believe, and when going from a stop in 1st, there is a SLIGHT grind noise, which is seemingly going away after more usage.

Can someone tell me just WTF is going on here?

ruknd

sounds like a cylinder issue

S4dujour

is it covered under waranty, and if not, are they cheaper than clutch replacement?

also, what is the relation of that cylinder to the clutch assembly altogether?

I am thinking the clutch CANT be bad, because it would have never recovered....it just seems impossible for a bad clutch to all of a sudden work near normal again.

ruknd

cheaper than the clutch but iirc jsut has hard to replace. But it should be covered under warranty. IT may have also been a DBW issue that arrises every so often where the RMS go up and the clutch doesn't. I had taht happen twice but not in a long time.

Sia Bani

(after 3 consecutive hard launches against um..a bicyclist)

I'm still on the same clutch at 57k miles and 3+ years. Mine's been durable!


(knocking on wood now.)

S4iowa

Usually when the pedal sticks to the floor it's a hydraulic issue

S4dujour

thanks

S4dujour

awesome - thanks...

Sia Bani

just note, the not going into gear would have me a bit worried. I'd read what ruknd is posting below.

Mine was just the clutch pedal feel from that golden-brown roasting I did...mmm it smelt so bad. Never had issues with the gear though.

Stl4

about 3 times in 2 years. Twice "trying" to quickly pull out onto traffic, another time frickin' flip-flops got caught in floor mat.