Hi all.

 

I picked up a Mii Toca in February and it has been really great so far, but one thing has me slightly worried....

 

When accelerating briskly (eg: slip road onto a DC) in second gear and go to change to third gear >4000RPM there is a metallic/plastic "grating" noise as I dip the clutch.

 

When driven normally/gently I get no noise and the gearbox/clutch is otherwise smooth and quiet.

 

I have read about a loose/broken heat shield but don't think it is this because I would think that noise would be there all the time? 

 

Before I visit the dealer I want to harm myself with as much info as possible as I've had a recent bad experience with another brand/dealer....

 

Thanks.

Is the noise just as the engine stats to decelerate before you engage the next gear? If so I heard something like this when we test drove a Mii and once in our Citigo. Afraid I have no solution, as it's only happened once in our car (and I think seat salesman thought I'd crunched gears - which I hadnt). In our car I try not to pull foot straight off accelerator but ease it off with little more respect than perhaps I was used to in old car in case that was cause as I don't want to hear that again.

Metallic /plastic noise when you dip the clutch. Is this the famous clutch click that these suffer from?

Does it do it all the time?

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Yes Eric, I'd say that was fair. As a professional driver having driven a lot of different cars/vans, I've never heard a noise like this during gear changes. 

 

Having done a lot of reading about the gearbox in this car I do fear it is a "characteristic" though. 

 

My fear is as I have to accelerate briskly in second gear virtually every time I join the DC on my commute due to the dolt's that refuse to go above 30mph on the slip road.....something will break and I'll have to foot the bill.