[s-cars] Broken clutch pedal - again!

[Peter Golledge]

If the clutch is original it is likely very stiff indeed.  That will
shorten the life of all of the components (master, slave and pedal).  By
the time I swapped the clutch in wife's S6 @ 190K miles it took quite a bit
of force, didn't really notice since it until I put in the new throwout
bearing/disk/pressure plate.  I cleaned up the flywheel and reused it.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Tom Rodriguez <trodri69 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks,
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> The clutch pedal on my '95 S6 has broken, again.  This is the third time
> this has happened in the life of the car (270K miles).  The symptom is the
> pedal goes all the way to the floor and doesn't come back up, and doesn't
> engage the clutch.  The pedal can be manually pulled up to its normal
> position, but if pressed again it goes to the floor and stays there.
> Something in the pedal or linkage is broken.  The car is in the shop this
> morning for a diagnosis and repair quote.  Has anyone else encountered this
> problem?  I wanted to get the wisdom of this group before I speak further
> with the shop.
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> As I said, this has happened twice before on this car. The first time I
> think there was a break somewhere in the linkage.  The second time the
> break
> was in the pedal itself.  It seems odd to me that this would be a recurring
> problem. did Audi's engineers design a flimsy system?  How can I prevent
> this from happening again?
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> Any advice or experience would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Tom Rodriguez
>
> '95 S6, 270K miles
>
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