fiesta clutch problem

Deleted User 234324 · 22 Mar 2013 at 09:33

Hey folks,

For the past year my fiesta's clutch has been playing up intermittently. It has been fine for the past few months with no issues at all, but all of sudden, since the rain started poaring down it started again.

Anyway the issue is that the clutch pedal keeps getting stuck when pressed down to chain gear. When in neutral it works fine, you can press it down and it returns (about 3/4 of the way up). But select a gear and it will get stuck and within a few seconds you will not be able to change out of that gear (even though the pedal is still on the floor).

If I pull the pedal up though, I can then press it down and change gear again. This happened last night for me and within a couple miles of driving stopped happening, this morning though it did it again.

I had the clutch checked out when it first happened a year or so ago and the mechanic checked everything including the master slave which all checked out fine, he couldnt find a problem.

Any idea's on what it could be as its highly annoying

rhysduck · 22 Mar 2013 at 09:56

Gear box? No?

Same thing happens with my Dad's Fiesta.

meh? · 22 Mar 2013 at 10:58

What year Fiesta is it? I had the ST, I seem to remember it being recalled for a clip on the clutch pedal which stopped it from doing what you said your's does! I would check with your local Ford garage to see if yours needs it!

Deleted User 234324 · 22 Mar 2013 at 11:26

1996

meh? · 22 Mar 2013 at 11:34

Could be the spring on your pedal then?

MooMoo444 · 22 Mar 2013 at 11:35

Golden oldie!

mattyprice4004 · 22 Mar 2013 at 13:40

Is this the god-awful 1.8D I had in my '96 Fiesta?

If so, I'd say slave. I went through 3 in a year, awfully unreliable.

Deleted User 234324 · 27 Mar 2013 at 08:51

So its been 4 days now this has been happening, seems that if I put the car into gear and keep the clutch pedal down after 5 seconds it will very slowly start to engage and the car will start to creep forward.

If I then lift my foot off the pedal it will engage fully but remain down or partially down and prevent further changes unless I manually pull it up fully. I'm wondering if it just needs a service though as its not been done in years.