It was only a matter of time (Clutch Pedal)

[bigrj]

As I return to work from my lunch break I’m just pulling in to my parking space. Left foot down, SNAP! Foot all the way to the floor.

I’m guess the clutch pedal box has just gone, as I found a little white plastic clip broken in the footwell.

Lucky, I was in the works car park, parking and secondly, lucky I work next to a garage who don’t have a lot of work on at the moment.

So I explained the problem to the man in the garage and told him what I thought it might be and left him the keys. Hopefully if Seat has the part in (small white clip), the job will be fixed tomorrow.

Fingers crossed as I’ve my New Dynatwist induction kit at home waiting to be fitting Saturday morning.

I guess I’m now part of the majority with in the community.

BigRJ

 

[David_smith_909]

lol, mine went a month or 2 ago
iirc you have to replace the little white box and also the clutch cylinder as their both connected - not expensive though, i needed a weld on my pedal too

 

[bigrj]

How much did yours cost to repair Daivd. I've seen so many different prices on this forum.
Out of interest i called my local Seat Dealer. They wanted £325.00 hahahahaha
what a bunch of Jokers. !!!!!

 

[David_smith_909]

it will be different prices for different problems, i had to get my pedal taken out too and rewelded and refitted
, got 2 problems fixed at the same time (peddle box and peddle itself)
got my work done at awesome-gti for £160 - that inclues labour for doing the job, parts for the job and vat (everything)

new parts i got were a new peddle box and cylinder

they only had my car for a few hours too, good guys like that

if your a welder cupra_matt has posted a sticky in this section about how to do it, that will save you a few quid if you can do that yourself, or if you can fit the parts yourself, lol

 

[bigrj]

Cheers David,

I'm no welder. Cars with the garage now, i just hope they are decent guys and dont charge me an arm and a leg.

 

[David_smith_909]

make sure they dont try to blag you with a new clutch
i know awesome said they have heard of garages saying you need a new clutch when this problem happens and you dont at all its just b0ll0x

 

[bigrj]

Cheers for the heads up.

 

[davidol]

£160 David? you got robbed! Theres no need to replace the little white clip or the master cylinder, the white clip just provides a pivot point for the rod operating the clutch master cylinder as the pedal swings through its axis (and thus changes angle in comparision to the master cylinders rod), just weld up the pedal and put the clip back in, £30 max?

 

[claudefrog]

£160 David? you got robbed! Theres no need to replace the little white clip or the master cylinder, the white clip just provides a pivot point for the rod operating the clutch master cylinder as the pedal swings through its axis (and thus changes angle in comparision to the master cylinders rod), just weld up the pedal and put the clip back in, £30 max?

i'd agree with this, unless his master cylinder also gave up the ghost

 

[bigrj]

well i'll be sure to let you all know tomorrow how much i get charged.

 

[David_smith_909]

i'd agree with this, unless his master cylinder also gave up the ghost

they replaced it so it must have

 

[kieran_cupra]

Mine let me down 5 months ago clip was fine just the pedal box!!

Let me down sunday and was drivong to newquay on the saturday!!

Seat wanted over £300 for the repair!!!!!! said the dash had to come off , cough cough.

Mate came round , pedal off in 20mins welded up and painted and then refitted further hour job done and £30 lighter

Job done

 

[bigrj]

I need some mates like yours. Ones that know what they are dong lol.

 

[David_smith_909]

sounds like i do to, although im more than happy with the people that did do it, not bothered about price tbh, i know you will get charged around that from most places, not all places charge "mates rates"

 

[kieran_cupra]

yeah i was just lucky!!1 he ussed to work for vw and had seen it happen before on the polo's

 

[Tony 156]

just a quick one here, but mine hasnt gone YET but just wondering what kinda milage this problem was happening at or is it luck of the draw?

 

[David_smith_909]

look of draw i reckon
mine was @56k tho if that helps

 

[bigrj]

mine went at 36k.
But i've only had the car for 6 days.
Luck of the draw i guess.

 

[kieran_cupra]

yeah its pure luck of the draw. mine went at 50k

 

[Blucupra]

Do all Ibiza Cupra MK3 models have this problem? Mine's on 80.000 km now and still no problem with the clutch pedal.