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OT Fiat cinqucento sporting clutch issues
aka Keith - 11/8/10 at 10:59 AM

My daily runner, has developed over the last couple of days, a little prob, and looking to the collective to give me some pointers so that I do not have to bend over for some garage bills.

Fiat cinqucento 1.1 sporting and the clutch will not engage fully. ie pressing the clutch in with car in gear puts a small pull on the car.

Makes changing grears very clunky and putting it into reverse very noisy.

Ideas are clutch cable adjustment, or is it a new clutch?

Cheers
Craig


balidey - 11/8/10 at 11:07 AM

Adjust the cable first. But will probably snap soon as they do go, its a known weak point. Had to do a couple of cables on mine, but never had to do a clutch.

I would buy a cable now and keep it in the car (like I do)


adithorp - 11/8/10 at 11:08 AM

Either clutch fingers wearing/breaking or realese bearing failure or oil contamination (all gearbox out and new clutch etc) or cable starting to fail (known to break at the pedal end).

adrian


aka Keith - 12/8/10 at 07:47 AM

thanks folks, manged to get it home last night using a couple of the gears.

quickly nipped out to garage with tools and a lamp and adjusted the clutch cable.

Now works perfect..thanks for the notes.

Cheers
Craig