HI GUys
greetings from downunder.
I'm having problems down here and I'm not confident the dealer knows what they are doing.
I have a 1999 S2000 and love it, just so much fun.
Took it in for a 60000k service around a month ago, they phoned me and said the master cylinder was weeping and should be replaced.
OK told them to do it, though I had not seen any evidence and had not noticed fluid level going down.
Picked the car up just on closing time, notice that straight away
the pedal action is wierd, like the last 25% of the stroke is graty feeling and not smooth. Phoned and advised of the problem and said I would get back as soon as I could get out of work for a while.
Little later popped the bonnet to check fluids etc and what do I see,
the new master cylinder is leaking, drop arounf the size of your once cent piece under the cylinder.
So made a time and went back to the dealer, sat around in the waiting room for about hour and a half, service advisor dude comes in and says the leak is actually coming from the slave cylinder and needs to be replaced. At this point I request to be able to enter the workshop and
point the leak out. So go out there, car is on the hoist a couple of feet in the air with the bonnet up. Lighting is not great and the shadow cast by the bonnet makes it pretty dark in there, suggest that maybe a torch would help, takes a while but finally one appears, I point the leak out
and 2 mechanics and the advisor and myseld stand around looking at it.
Finally they ask me what I would like them to do! Fix it would be nice
I say. OK they say and will replace under warranty but I need to pay for slave cylinder. OK lets do it, they have to order the parts in,
so I go of to a movie while I am waiting. Get a phone call to say all done and to pick up the vehicle. Guess what same wierd clutch feel.
Ring and say problem still there and again will get over when I can.
That was maybe three weeks ago and in the last week or so have noticed a drive line vibration. Occurs all the time under just normal driving. I put in neutral and let the clutch out and it is still there,
I leave in gear and push clutch in and is less much still there.
I go back to dealer yesterday and they bleed system again but problems still there. Say they don't know what to do next,
say I don't know either, but looking from where I am standing
I give them my car for service and a problem that wasn't there
before now is. After much discussion the advisor dude comes back
and say the manager has agreed to change both cylinders again.
But suspects that the vibration is internal in geabox/clutch,
and if I agree they will remove and inspect, if they have stuffed up they will fix but otherwise I will have to pay. I'm a bit concerned that if they change the cylinders and even fix the clutch action issue (which only last night went away to be replaced by a much heavier action on the last 25% of the travel) that even if they realise they did something
wrong will not admit it and I'll be out of pocket mega dollars.
The clutch engages about half way throught the travel.
If I push all the way to the floor the action(previously graty now heavy)
and then release but not all the way up the, about 1" from fully released, the pedal now can be pushed to the floor smoothly as often as you wish as long as its not fully released. When engine not running pedal is smooth for the full travel. Is there some way that maybe they have got some adjustment wrong and the clutch release bearing is not
fully disengaging? Hope you can shed some light on this, cause without some postive proof they did something wrong I can see me getting screwed on this. Thanks for any help advise you guys can offer.
Cheers from downunder
Peter