Paul_J
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Picked my sister up from town, and was taking her back home - and 3 chavs in a clio flashed me and then went to over take on a dual carriageway (thats a 40 limit)...
So I in 4th at the time, just thought 'oh no you don't' and booted it which made them go backwards in my rear view mirror and pull back behind.
I go to stop at the lights which then turn amber just as I get to them - and the drunked chavs fly past and beep as if to say 'haha beat you'...
So I nail it catch up and prove my point that they shouldn't even bother trying.
Next set of lights they are next to me. They're all drunken chavs doing a sorta 'come on - come on gesture' and I simply signal that I beat them twice already - to which the muppet behind the wheel is showing 3 fingers as in 'I'm 3 up'... I look at the side of his car and it says 1.2 - and I point out that even 1 up he'd be no competiton.
Chavs start revving, so I'm sitting at the lights ready to launch but the lights are taking far longer than I thought (so I'm sadly in gear, clutch down)... Lights go green and I shoot off.
But I don't... The car zooms away from them (no hard task) - but it feels underpowered compared to the amount its revving.
I do a quick test of pulling away, further along the journey, and the revs are at like 5k rpm yet the cars not really accelerating that quick - Personally I think the clutch is now slipping / fucked. But my sister is going 'Nah, that wouldn't of knocked it out'
Would one little race really do that much to it? 
ESSAY!!!!! Sorry.
[Edited on 30-01-2005 by Paul_J]
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drunkenfool
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if it was already on the way out then yeah id say it was possible
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Cybermonkey
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I believe you broke something yes
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Mistamist
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tis a second hand car so i say yes it could be possible.
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Paul_J
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But it didn't feel like it was on the way out at all? It was pulling away from the line like shit off a shovel previously.
Could it perhaps be it got hot or something (was at lights, clutch to the floor - raised revs to like 2.5k for about 20 secs)? and then tommorrow it'll have cooled down and be fine again 
Thing is - if I had known the lights were gonna take that long I wouldn't of had it in gear - but I didn't want those chavs boasting to their cider drinking mates tommorrow down the park or wherever... Oh yeh I beat a Gti in my clio 3 up 
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Paul_J
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And in my corsa I could of sat there all day long and nothing had gone wrong
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drunkenfool
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When the plate is low enough, it will start slipping cos of lack of friction, its posslbe that it was right on the limit and now its gone over. Could have overheated though, although im guessing its less liklely.
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Ian
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Sounds like its on the way out, you'll know tomorrow if its a heat problem or proper wear. There's not years left on it though.
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Paul_J
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Is there any way you can tell the state of the clutch by how much you have to push your foot down on it to make it change gear?
I was having to push the clutch right to the floor and it is hard to push down... Unlike my corsa which is light as a feather and I can literally just blip with my toe the clutch and change gear.
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Cybermonkey
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could be clutch cable/assembly. Or the pressure plate is not disconnecting properly
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Welsh Dan
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My clutch went within a matter of miles. Starting slipping on the way to dropping my mate off home. Within about three miles, I had to slow to a crawl to get the car home. Car refused to move again, lol.
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Siberia
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clutchs are like woman ....... cnuts......
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IntaCepta
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thats a bit harsh mate! ^
my clutch has done well by me !
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Rus
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ok, put the handbrake on, put it in second gear and slowly start releasing the clutch. don't take the handbrake off. you'll find the biting point but keep going go untill your right on the edge of stalling it and keep it there. basically if it slips. you need a new clutch.
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Russ
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^^^
LOL
and if you didnt before you will now
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Cybermonkey
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No Sig has a very valid point, and the signs of a healthy clutch is actually putting it in 2nd and being able to move with handbrake on riding the biting point.
[Edited on 30-01-2005 by Cybermonkey24]
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Drew
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or no handbrake and try to pull away in 4th is another way 
but u were racing with ur sister in the car 
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MatthewR
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quote:
Originally posted by Drew
but u were racing with ur sister in the car
I was thinking this, but Paul_j never fails to amuse me
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Mikorsa16v
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find a hill, get to about 40mph, put into 5th and floor it, it the revs starts rising - i.e. not normal amounts then you know
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Nismo
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Paul how long have you owned the car and youve allready broke it 
Nah i dont know much about clutches but like every one says it could have been on its way before you brought it.
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quote:
Originally posted by Evisu
quote:
Originally posted by Drew
but u were racing with ur sister in the car
I was thinking this, but Paul_j never fails to amuse me
mate paul_j is a legend. 
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Red_SXi
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Yeh i reckon it was fucked in the first place. The clutch on my Corsa was pretty shite when it went, and it had done 18k so i wouldnt mind better your car is in need of 1, especially if it was owned by a young person in the first place
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stuartmitchell
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It was the first thing to go in my gti mate
total pain in the arse especially at track days because it makes you look like a fudd 
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LukeGSi
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If your clutch was fully down then how much you rev it is surely irrelevent until you lift the clutch 
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TimS
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Its very easy to, know a lad that just to get though them every six months or so.
But he did drive like a cunt.
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