hi all. i am a newbie. i have just gone out and got myself a seat cupra r. the car is a joy to drive up until now. the car when driving crunches into 2nd gear only. could this be a syncro problem?
also today i was driving down the road and come to the junction and pushed in the clutch and the peddle stayed on the floor and car carried on driving like i hadnt pressed the clutch. i managed to stall it. it then wudnt change gear and i cudnt understand why as the clutch was pressed down. i then realised the peddle wasnt coming back up so i pulled it up with my hands. it then engaged into gear and off i went. i got 5mins down the road before it did it again so i just pulled it back up with my hands. i then went andbles the clutch out took car out seemed ok and thenpulling back onto street pressed clutch in and stayed on floor again. i have checked the level and its not loosing fluid. i have checked to see if its all dry near peddle andaroundthat area andit is. i sat pressing the peddle when car was turned off and my mate waslooking for leaksand he said it sounds like when i press peddle down its sucking air in. i rung the guy i got it off and he said its just had a slave cylinder. what can it be? can anyone help. i darent takemy kids in the car while its like this. i have just left it parked up. i have tried n tried to get it to stick down but it only does it when driving and car is on. all thoughts and suggestions will be much appreciated.
maany thanks adam
Mine went a month a go,rac bloke did a temp fix on it to get me home 15 miles,me & a mate took pedal out & welded plate back on but the temp fix had bent the master cylinder shaft which cost me £45
Hmmmmm....
Well. Tony at the garage just got back to me. The whole pedal including the little white clip and the spot-welded box thingy is intact. He says it looks like the master cylinder is broken. He then cursed the design of the car because the cylinder is in the gear box or something. He then told me it looks like 1 1/2 days work. He's provisionally saying £250 plus parts (however much they are), but he thinks it'll be closer to £350-400+.
Ouch!
He's going to check out my clutch while he's in there too and see how much life it has left in it. I asked him to get in touch with me if it looks like it's going to be over £400.
The guy sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Do these prices sound right, or scary-high?
Sarah