I brought myself a 1995 Clio 16V about this time last year. Great little car although the clutch was mega heavy compare to my old 1.4 RT. But as it was good in every other way I lived with it.
After a month or so I was driving along and came to a junction. I put my foot on the clutch, there was a ping. Clutch Cabled Had snapped. We promptly change it but found that even with the pedal fully depressed the clutch still made partial contact so it wouldn’t go into gear. We then made up a spacer, a slotted piece of metal tube which we put between the gear box fork and the end piece of the cable. It then worked ok but if I was say stuck in traffic without air rushing though it began to go funny again as in even with the pedal depressed it wouldn’t give me a gear.
After a few months this problem eventually got less and less of an issue to the point where there wasn’t a problem. Then the clutch cable snapped…again. On inspection all of the rubbers had totally smoooshed flat so the cable was under incredible strain.
We changed this but only to find that we couldn’t get into gear at all. At the time we though it must be dodgy clutch springs. So I shoved it 3rd and drove to a clutch centre. They changed the clutch, said it was on its way out but wasn’t too badly worn. They also still had the same problem. They also said the clutch fork was bent which they changed. In the end they spaced it to get it to work.
After going to town today I had to do a bit of stopping and starting in traffic. It got so bad I couldn’t change gear and had to drive back in 2nd. I then managed to get it to hobble to work just. That evening when I finished about 6 hours later it worked pretty much fine. There is something obviously wrong to do with when its hot-hotter engine hotter temperatures of the last few weeks.
Its never had a gear box oil change either and I'm not sure of the level but I think it was checked at the last service.
Any ideas????
After a month or so I was driving along and came to a junction. I put my foot on the clutch, there was a ping. Clutch Cabled Had snapped. We promptly change it but found that even with the pedal fully depressed the clutch still made partial contact so it wouldn’t go into gear. We then made up a spacer, a slotted piece of metal tube which we put between the gear box fork and the end piece of the cable. It then worked ok but if I was say stuck in traffic without air rushing though it began to go funny again as in even with the pedal depressed it wouldn’t give me a gear.
After a few months this problem eventually got less and less of an issue to the point where there wasn’t a problem. Then the clutch cable snapped…again. On inspection all of the rubbers had totally smoooshed flat so the cable was under incredible strain.
We changed this but only to find that we couldn’t get into gear at all. At the time we though it must be dodgy clutch springs. So I shoved it 3rd and drove to a clutch centre. They changed the clutch, said it was on its way out but wasn’t too badly worn. They also still had the same problem. They also said the clutch fork was bent which they changed. In the end they spaced it to get it to work.
After going to town today I had to do a bit of stopping and starting in traffic. It got so bad I couldn’t change gear and had to drive back in 2nd. I then managed to get it to hobble to work just. That evening when I finished about 6 hours later it worked pretty much fine. There is something obviously wrong to do with when its hot-hotter engine hotter temperatures of the last few weeks.
Its never had a gear box oil change either and I'm not sure of the level but I think it was checked at the last service.
Any ideas????
