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ittiam · 3rd September 2009, 15:57

update update update...

OK. story so far is that, I went to Prerana motors and explained the problem. There was obvious resistance. I was told that my car is good etc. etc. But, after some persistence, they took it up. Opened it up and found that clutch was indeed bad. Whole clutch assembly was replaced under warranty.

After that, clutch was soft again and I had better time...

After driving for a week, I find that it is gaining hardness very slowly... I'm afraid that it'd end up becoming same dead pedal after 15k more Kms. There was some resistance while shifting to 1st and 2nd gear. I have specifically observed that, if you drive longer on 2nd and try to shift to 3rd, u can observe the clutch hardnes..

So, I've dropped it back to the garage... Lets see what will they find this time.

Some curious incident...

When I was in the workshop, I met another gentleman whose SDX had clocked 45k Kms. I casually questioned abt clutch hardnes... He said, not at all and he hasn't developed any knee pain etc. and reckoned that my be I did not know how to drive. Now, I wouldn't believe him. I asked to see it for myself. Happily he gave me the keys. To my biggest surprise, I found that his clutch was 100 times harder than mine. I was taken aback. Totally confused. I told him that his clutch was dead and he should see mine. The moment he tried mine, he did not know how to respond. He ran for service advisor.

So, in my private research, I've mostly established that the Palio multijet clutch has problems. I can bet, your car isn't as smooth as it used to be. If it needs a clutch replacement every 15k Kms. it's ought to to be taken up with Fiat.

The service station guy said that he has changed the clutch assembly for mainy customers. Others are probably insensitive to the hardness. Every I've see at the service station is having this problem...

3rd September 2009, 15:57	#9 (permalink)
ittiam Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Location: Bangalore Posts: 18	update update update... OK. story so far is that, I went to Prerana motors and explained the problem. There was obvious resistance. I was told that my car is good etc. etc. But, after some persistence, they took it up. Opened it up and found that clutch was indeed bad. Whole clutch assembly was replaced under warranty. After that, clutch was soft again and I had better time... After driving for a week, I find that it is gaining hardness very slowly... I'm afraid that it'd end up becoming same dead pedal after 15k more Kms. There was some resistance while shifting to 1st and 2nd gear. I have specifically observed that, if you drive longer on 2nd and try to shift to 3rd, u can observe the clutch hardnes.. So, I've dropped it back to the garage... Lets see what will they find this time. Some curious incident... When I was in the workshop, I met another gentleman whose SDX had clocked 45k Kms. I casually questioned abt clutch hardnes... He said, not at all and he hasn't developed any knee pain etc. and reckoned that my be I did not know how to drive. Now, I wouldn't believe him. I asked to see it for myself. Happily he gave me the keys. To my biggest surprise, I found that his clutch was 100 times harder than mine. I was taken aback. Totally confused. I told him that his clutch was dead and he should see mine. The moment he tried mine, he did not know how to respond. He ran for service advisor. So, in my private research, I've mostly established that the Palio multijet clutch has problems. I can bet, your car isn't as smooth as it used to be. If it needs a clutch replacement every 15k Kms. it's ought to to be taken up with Fiat. The service station guy said that he has changed the clutch assembly for mainy customers. Others are probably insensitive to the hardness. Every I've see at the service station is having this problem...