[Ni33e]

Hi I've a2012 antara 2.2 whit 70k miles. A few months back the clutch pedal was on the floor. A garage said I needed a new clutch. They fitted a clutch and master cylinder.

Few days pedal was on floor or half way. They did master and slave cylnder this tine and also renewed clutch again at their expense. After countless garage visits car is still the same. Garage says they think it needs the pure from the master to slave and suspect thats the prob..I've no faith in garage but £1500. I'm at a loss.
Any positive thoughts/ advice would be appreciated.
Cheers

 

[Scousemartin]

Hi I've a2012 antara 2.2 whit 70k miles. A few months back the clutch pedal was on the floor. A garage said I needed a new clutch. They fitted a clutch and master cylinder.

Few days pedal was on floor or half way. They did master and slave cylnder this tine and also renewed clutch again at their expense. After countless garage visits car is still the same. Garage says they think it needs the pure from the master to slave and suspect thats the prob..I've no faith in garage but £1500. I'm at a loss.
Any positive thoughts/ advice would be appreciated.
Cheers

Did you mean pipe (pure) surely they could have checked that, the only thing i could think of, that was causing it is the clutch fluid pressure. I.E. a leak, only parts that could be faulty is the connection to the slave cylinder on the top of the gearbox , or the connection to the slave cylinder inside the gearbox. I really Cant see them replacing the clutch though , if it was only a few days afterwards think they just told you that to sound good. If you have no obvious leaks, then thats the only places it could be leaking from. I also cant see them originally diagnosing that its your clutch and master cylinder that needs replacing? Master cylinder can be replaced without removing the gearbox. So they clearly tried that and had no luck so they then told you it was the clutch itself. Once you have the gearbox removed it seems stupid not to replace all of it. This is why i never trust garages. Did you have any other symptoms before getting the clutch done. Im actually stripping mine down to change clutch, but now need a Dual mass flywheel as well.

 

[Ni33e]

Hi, yes the pipe from master cylinder to the slave he thinks is at fault. The clutch and flywheel was the initial diagnosis.. he did master and slave on his own back. There seems to be no obvious leakage, he put a wee camera into the gearbox t9 check slave and said its fine. The clutch pedal has no pressure until half way down...after spending 1500 on it...i cant eally start over

 

[Scousemartin]

If there is no leak, then it either needs bleeding or its the slave cylinder/pressure plate thats causing the lack of pressure to the pedal? How long ago did they do the clutch? I did a clutch on a vivaro with pretty similar symptoms and it was nearly on the floor before the clutch would disengagem, but sorted itself out after driving it for a week

 

[Ni33e]

Apparently he put 2 slave cylnders in...as soon as i got the car back I felt low pressure, then after a 300 400 miles the pedal was half way again. If the car sat for a few days the pedal wwould on floor but I could flick it back. So its been back 7 times now to the garage..
he said there has been 2 full clutch kits and flywheel..

 

[Scousemartin]

But why would you change the clutch after 300 miles? Unless it was destroyed when they opened it back up again. Regardless what it is , he needs to send it to somewhere that knows what they are doing , at their expense

 

[Scousemartin]

Have you had any more news on this? Did you get it sorted?

 

[Ni33e]

Have you had any more news on this? Did you get it sorted?

I've just put it into a different garage this morning. I will let you know the outcome 👍