HELP - Weird Clutch

[Kneale Brownson]

So, Which of the three cars in your list is the subject car?

Did you check fluid level?  The clutch gets hydraulic fluid from the brake 
fluid reservoir.  If the level in that reservoir is below the level of the 
nipple off which the clutch master cylinder is fed, you may run low on 
fluid. It sounds like you have a clutch MC or slave cylinder problem.



At 11:56 AM 06/23/2001 -0400, LRGreger at aol.com wrote:

>I recently
>  The vehicle has 84,000 miles on it, so I guess that it is to be expected
>that some problems may begin to appear.  However, this one is weird, at least
>to me.  I'm guessing that the hydraulic clutch is reasonably similar to older
>Audi clutches, so I'm hoping that someone may have experienced a similar
>problem.
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>Very shortly after I got the car, while I was doing some minor "new car
>testing" in the driveway, I depressed the clutch pedal and  the pedal went to
>the floor without disengaging the clutch, AND the pedal did not return when
>released.  I spent a couple of minutes unsuccessfully trying to figure out
>what was going on, then went on with some other chores.  When my brother
>returned a short while later, he looked at the clutch and it was working
>fine.
>
>A week later I was returning to LA on the interstate (I had been in fifth
>gear and had not used the clutch for the previous couple of hours) when I
>came to a traffic jam, in Las Vegas, and depressed the clutch pedal.  The
>clutch failure occurred again, except this time the problem did not self
>correct.  I managed to get the transmission into neutral and coast off of the
>interstate.  After a couple of hours, I gave up in my hope that the problem
>would self correct, and drove home to LA sans clutch.  Luckily I only had to
>go through the exercise of starting the car with first gear engaged, then
>matching engine speed to car speed so I could shift to third then fifth
>gears, three times to get home.
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>The clutch pedal was still not working the next day.  I went out of town the
>following week, and when I returned and took another look at the problem, you
>guessed it, the clutch pedal was working fine.
>
>What in the world is happening?  By the way, I don't do drugs.
>
>TIA
>Rob Greger
>88 80q, 93 90CS, 97 A4q
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