Creaky clutch pedal

[Darren S]

As others - mine does it when it gets warm. It hardly ever does it during winter, unless I've taken it out on a decent A-road blat.

I've removed the airbox and WD'd the cable and stuff, but it's only a short-term fix and comes back eventually. I suspect most of the problem lies in the way the cable has to navigate half way around the engine bay for the right-hand drive version. I'd guess that the left-hooker RS Clios don't get this problem, or certainly not as bad? If they did, can you imagine how bad the clutch pedal action would be in warmer countries?

D.

 

[caister]

White grease, its pritty easy to get the straw nossel in there. its not the easyest of things to get too.

Cheers I'll give that ago. I've tried a few things on it but the problem comes back after a few days!

 

[Tigger]

I was spraying some WD40 in around the joints of the actual pedal itself and it "sort-of" went away for a while.

Am I spraying the wrong part lol ?

 

[davo172]

Swoppin the cable cured mine but its a b*****d of a job to change !!

 

[.Ben.]

Re: Clutch pedal makes noise :-(

I had the same thing
Spray some WD40 on your clutch cable - that sorted mine out on Wednesday night and it's been fine so far

Please don't spray WD40 or any oil-based substance on a nylon cable! It will rot it - over time - and make it worse!

You need silicone lubricant and you need to lube both ends (behind the pedal, where the cable passes through a grommet in the bulkhead and under the airbox).

Once you have the airbox out, unclip the cable from the clutch actuator and push/ pull it in and out whilst lubing it (fnarr, fnarr! ).

It should help, but the lube needs to be thin enough to pass down the cable. I have put a blob of silicone grease on each end too, for good measure.

The problem is that once a cable is creaking, it's passed the point of no return and will probably need re-lubing every few thousand miles to keep it tip-top.

I plan to replace mine after all of the other $hit on mine is sorted (aux belt next week, passenger door solenoid after that, etc, etc - - - LOL) just to be done with it!

HTH.

 

[Tigger]

Have some of that too so will give it a whirl - cheers

 

[caister]

White grease, its pritty easy to get the straw nossel in there. its not the easyest of things to get too.

Solved it for 3 days now its back!!

 

[Ryan k]

Solved it for 3 days now its back!!

It was like that with mine i had to take arm off and grease it.

 

[caister]

It was like that with mine i had to take arm off and grease it.

I assume thats not easy to do?

 

[Ryan k]

I assume thats not easy to do?

Iv never tryed without taking box off. I always leave it an do it when i have it off. Mine was like that for a year so and greased it, its been fine ever since. Well till i put a new box on an it started again lol

 

[Tigger]

Got some silicone lubricant on mine and it came back the same day!

 

[StevenMc29]

Most of you boys are lucky (people with sports)

If only you had a nice squeaky sun roof...

 

[Tigger]

Had one of those too - then I got a sport

 

[richy22]

Got some silicone lubricant on mine and it came back the same day!

Oh!

I was going to try and sort mine tomorrow but it sounds like it wont cure it

 

[Tigger]

Is fitting a new cable an expensive job?
What's involved?

 

[Tigger]

Apparently it takes Renault "about an hour" to change the cable, quoted £50 for the job - is that good?

 

[McClio]

Most of you boys are lucky (people with sports)

If only you had a nice squeaky sun roof...

simple job, take the glass out pack itwith water proof foam or tape anything really replace and woalla squak is history

 

[ripp]

not the cable guys. just changed my clutch and the noise is gone. but it still present if I press slowly the pedal, but a lot less than before, the thing is, the fork is rubbing on the release bearing, and that's what I suspect is the main problem. I'm not saying that sometimes the cable is the problem but I think this issue is generally caused by the friction between fork/bearing/pressure plate. After a day of driving with the new clutch the squeak slowly appeared as said above, even if I greased the elements with copper based grease will post a few photos to see how mine looked like

 

[Tunst]

mine had this problem i put a shitty cheap ass clutch in took that out and put a renault one in and now its gone