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Coincidence or just bad luck?
warwick_hunt_2
Posts: 24 Forumite
in Motoring
Hi all!
My car (2005 Micra 1.2s, 88,000 miles:eek:) was due for its MOT last week and I had a fluids service done at the same time.
It passed and I authorised the garage to deal with the advisories on the MOT (Rear indicators not orange enough, rear windscreen wiper split and new rear tyre).
The next day when driving, I heard a dull clunk when changing gear which I felt through the clutch pedal. Then, approaching a roundabout, the clutch pedal went straight to the floor with no resistance.
I rang a man with a flatbed to come and take my car home and he turned up, said he'd seen the same problem before, especially with Fiestas of the same vintage. The pin that activates the pushrod into the slave/master cylinder was worn and had disengaged. He got the pin back in but said it would happen again, as a spring in the clutch pedal had snapped and was allowing lateral movement. It's now held together with a cable tie, to stop it popping out again!
So, I've now got a new pedal coming, to be fitted on Monday.
My question is, would someone else have driven my car for the MOT (to get it up to temperature for the emissions test etc) and snapped the spring (not that I can prove anything) or is it just one of those coincidences?
My car (2005 Micra 1.2s, 88,000 miles:eek:) was due for its MOT last week and I had a fluids service done at the same time.
It passed and I authorised the garage to deal with the advisories on the MOT (Rear indicators not orange enough, rear windscreen wiper split and new rear tyre).
The next day when driving, I heard a dull clunk when changing gear which I felt through the clutch pedal. Then, approaching a roundabout, the clutch pedal went straight to the floor with no resistance.
I rang a man with a flatbed to come and take my car home and he turned up, said he'd seen the same problem before, especially with Fiestas of the same vintage. The pin that activates the pushrod into the slave/master cylinder was worn and had disengaged. He got the pin back in but said it would happen again, as a spring in the clutch pedal had snapped and was allowing lateral movement. It's now held together with a cable tie, to stop it popping out again!
So, I've now got a new pedal coming, to be fitted on Monday.
My question is, would someone else have driven my car for the MOT (to get it up to temperature for the emissions test etc) and snapped the spring (not that I can prove anything) or is it just one of those coincidences?
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It's just coincidence. A car doesn't normally leave the premises to warm the engine up.
Engines warm up quicker in a stationary car with no airflow over the engine.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
Just one of those things that can happen any time0
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Fiancee's fiesta had same problem last week, just buy a new (modified) clip - Ford main dealer supply -58p. Two minutes to fit.0
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