Any ideas? I just put it down to the clutch being a bit special, but in traffic after some serious stop-start stuff, I notice the clutch sometimes bites quite low down in the travel, and usually it bites in the place I'm used to it biting. Obviously when it bites a bit low, I'm not as ready on the gas as normal, so it feels like it may stall. This could just be a coincidence of the type of clutch I have, and it is highly unfriendly for driving in stop/start traffic?

I still love it though.

Try bleeding it.

Regardless of type of clutch, the bite point should be consistent...

It is however completely possible that you are just paranoid.

Any ideas? I just put it down to the clutch being a bit special, but in traffic after some serious stop-start stuff, I notice the clutch sometimes bites quite low down in the travel, and usually it bites in the place I'm used to it biting. Obviously when it bites a bit low, I'm not as ready on the gas as normal, so it feels like it may stall. This could just be a coincidence of the type of clutch I have, and it is highly unfriendly for driving in stop/start traffic?

I still love it though.

My Impreza has started doing this sort of thing. Slow, queueing traffic, especially up a slip road to a roundabout etc... 2 minutes later, it's returned to normal.

J.

Sounds like a small amount of air still in the hydraulics somewhere.

Sounds like a small amount of air still in the hydraulics somewhere.

Might see if I can get it re-bled.

Yes as said the clutch should bite at the same place everytime.

mine sometimes catchs me out and bites hard when i aint expecting it, feels like its biting lower but its not its just me not concentrating.

what everyone else said... it should always bite at the same place, so I'd also go for the hydraulics between pedal and clutch.....

I've mentioned this sort of thing before on here...... When in traffic jams with the clutch fully down and hand or foot brake on you'll feel the car bite a little after a few seconds stood still. If you then release the brake the car creeps very slightly forward and it's hard to get out of gear. Basically as though the clutch pedal has been raised a little to biting point even though the pedal is still firmly to the floor.

It's something i'm gonna mention when it's serviced in the next couple of months.

I'm sure there was mention of a "master cylinder"???

Only other difference between our two fabia's is that the clutch pedal seems easier to push down on the car that has this problem.

Cheers

Dave.

Had the same prob for a long while - rebled several times, changed fluid twice, changed t-piece, master cylinder. Slave cylinder was changed when I fitted the new clutch. Still does exactly the same thing - drops a bit when waiting in traffic...and then recovers as though nothing was wrong...

Real mystery, think it must be the nature of the clutch/flywheel...

confused as well here matey

Bas

Not really the same type of car but my MGB had that problem, turned out to be a rubber bit in the slave cylinder which would leak and allow the fluid to creep past and change the "bite" point from time to time.

I got a rebuild kit, some of that jewellers polish stuff and spent a happy evening making it all shiny before rebuilding it. Problem went away.

Hmm, well the cylinder is new - came with the clutch & flywheel. I'll keep my eye on it - It's just a minor annoyance in traffic - It doesn't do it on the open road.