I don't come on this forum very often, so I hadn't realised that it was actually for people to pool their ignorance. I described the situation exactly as it was, so one or two of the contributors could do well to go back and read what I actually wrote. If you want to be helpful, it's a good place to start. My humble thanks to those who have done that.

 

I have never said that the bite point was too high. The bite point is in exactly the right place relative to where the brake pedal and accelerator are, and the clutch has done around 5,000  miles since last replaced. The bite point has always been in this position since I bought the car new in 2002. I have never broken anything about the clutch in the 120,000 miles I've driven the car, including when I've depressed it as far as the designers intended it be depressed.

 

The problem I have has always been that the distance from the bite point to the limit of the pedal movement seems excessive and unnecessary. When I spotted in the Haynes manual that early Fabias had been found to be fitted with a rather long stop behind the pedal, I wondered if mine should have had that. Has anyone actually opened the file I uploaded to see this diagram? (My apologies that I couldn't upload it as a picture - I haven't found out how to do that yet.)

 

Anyway, I've at least discovered that my Fabia wasn't built with that stop, but with a shorter one as was standard in most of the Mk1s. That's all I asked, so I suppose I'm satisfied. Thank you!

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Chris Beeson: I don't come on this forum very often, so I hadn't realised that it was actually for people to pool their ignorance.

 

That's the thanks people get for spending their time and effort trying to help you is it? What do you want - a refund?

 

You've had the car since new in 2002, so after 19 years you decide that the pedal throw doesn't feel right and there must be a stop missing even though it's always been exactly the same from the day it left the showroom 19 years ago - you having a laugh or something? Didn't you ask Skoda about it earlier in the car's life if you thought it wasn't right?

 

 

Edited 1 June, 20215 yr by TMB

Why do I bother, TMB? The throw of the clutch pedal has always bothered me, for as long as I can remember. It's the sort of thing you learn to live with; no car is perfect. It didn't occure to me that a stop might be missing until recently I spotted a small sketch in the corner of a page of the Haynes manual (which wasn't available anyway when I first bought the car, or for many years afterwards). I simply asked if anyone else had an early Fabia with a stop like the one in the diagram.

 

Seems no-one has. I am satisfied.  I wasn't looking for an explanation of how clutches worked, or how to drive a car. I've been working on my own cars (though not the Fabia as it happens) since 1970. I'll try and ask less controversial questions in the future. End of.

I wonder if an incorrect sketch in Haynes is behind all this grief?

I've just looked at our 2005 car and it looks nothing like that line drawing.  I can't see any evidence of the part number having changed in the parts catalogue during production of mk1, so it seems it has never been like that illustration.

50 minutes ago, Chris Beeson said:

I simply asked if anyone else had an early Fabia with a stop like the one in the diagram.

 

The file you posted wouldn't open for me - said it needed additional codecs or something.

 

Anyway, I don't care for your attitude and will steer clear of you in future. End of.

 

 

If you want to push your clutch pedal to the floor well beyond its disengagement point because the manual says that you can or should then thats your prerogative, nobody is telling you not to.

 

I think most of us are struggling to see what the problem is for you, if the floor is too far away for you to put the pedal to the floor then move the seat forward, its even advisable because if one day you have a brake system failure or problem with air, a prolonged ABS stop after intense downhill braking etc you may need all the reserve travel to avoid an accident.

 

I thought perhaps you had just bought the car and not been driving it for 19 years.