clutch pedal travel. adjustment?

Rapished

Hi just got a new car for the wife to use as a commuter, its extremely well maintained and had a clutch kit 22k ago, but the clutch pedal has a massive amount of travel, there's no slippage but it takes a lot of effort to get the clutch up enough from a stand still to find the bite and pull away without the revs going mental In the mean time,

Its a SEAT Toledo 2000 w plate with 69k 1.6 petrol old beast but ridiculously looked after best I've seen.

Just the pedal to sort? cant it be adjusted?

Rolandtheroadie

If you look at the pedals, are the brake and clutch level with each other?

I've ajusted vauxhalls and nissans before when the pedals were not level, there was adjustment at the gearbox side of the cable.

Rapished

yeah there right next to each other, the pedal is extremely light and travels all the way to the floor but for the bite its all the way back, its easy to do smooth changes on a run, with not putting it all the way down, but its when you pull away its getting the bite/revs right etc

Rapished

do the cables adjust like motorbike ones? by moving the nuts?

Rolandtheroadie

The ones i've adjusted do, but itf they're level, thats me lost.

Rapished

how about putting something behind it to stop it going down so far, or is that a step to dangerous?

ILW

You will get used to it after a few days.

martin2345uk

The clutch on my old Polo had a very long travel; my garage tightened the cable (or something) during the service and it was much improved.

Weird_Nev

Rapished wrote: »

how about putting something behind it to stop it going down so far, or is that a step to dangerous?

Very dangerous.
Solve the problem, not the symptom.

I'd just take it to a garage, or the dealer who sold you it, and get them to adjust it correctly.

TradePro

Ratboy wrote: »

If you bought a car that had a new clutch after around 40k miles, I'd describe the vehicle as 'extremely badly maintained'

Badly driven, perhaps, but how badly maintained?

Utter sh*te statement IMO.

Weird_Nev

TradePro wrote: »

Badly driven, perhaps, but how badly maintained?

Utter sh*te statement IMO.

So why did you thank him for his post then?!

I agree, Ratboys post is an argumentative and ill thought out bunch of drivel.