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That’s what I said last week...
.... and we're back on ....
For a few hours, I thought this was all over!
Just found one!!
In 1965.
Yeah, a high bite point may mean a fault whereas a low bite is ok but you may want it adjusting.
Don't make a low biting clutch another reason not to buy a car.
Asking the garage to check is the right thing to do.
(Don't not buy a 10 yr old car thats otherwise good because the clutch doesnt feel right. You'll soon get used to it anyway.)
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8 hours and £250 :-)
He replied "I haven’t got any paperwork regarding the clutch I just know by experience I can almost guarantee that the clutch isn’t very old I’ll have a look later and check the fluids, my mechanic isn’t back from holiday till Thursday I think , but as I said it’s biting low because it’s not very old , also you have a 30 warranty as well so if anything was to go wrong you would be covered"
I replied that, no disrespect but I've done several clutches myself (which I have) and MY experience says this needs investigating and I'm happy to wait until it has been.
I may be daft but I'm not stupid enough to hand over the remaining balance BEFORE I'm happy with the car!
I know it's another delay and a pain in the arse. I thought I'd caught my final train on Friday. However... There is logic here... He's having the AC regassed Monday. His mechanic will check the clutch on Thursday or Friday. If the AC is leaking, it will likely be crap again by Friday, meaning it's still his problem.
I'm not considering the 30 day warranty to mean much - the only warranty I really have is holding onto the cash until it's all sorted.
If the AC works ok and the clutch biting point moves off the floor, I'll pay him and we're done. The problems start if his guy cannot adjust it out and he tries to feed me some BS about how that's normal for Civics etc etc...
If he can't get the clutch sorted to my satisfaction, then I'm assuming it's on its last legs and will want a reduction in price.
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I do think that unintentionally you keep readjusting your realisim-o-meter - every day there are people reliably driving to and fro in all manner of cars you'd have dismissed as completely unacceptable.
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But generally he stays well on the side of pain in the ass.
She's had two cars which were less than 7 years old, both of which cost in excess of £7k. First was the Avensis, which practically rattled itself to death within two months of buying it. The second is her 308 eHDI, which has had endless engine faults, too many sensor issues to count, and is particularly poorly put-together. Both of these car purchases involved a month or two of thought and research.
In the middle, she had an old beater of a Megane, which was bought for £250 and had absolutely no problems whatsoever (once I'd fixed the central locking), which we bought from a Facebook ad the very day her Avensis went back.
For my cars...first was a 2003 MG ZR which occasionally tried to kill me with a fuel pump problem, but was otherwise rock solid. Then there was the 2001 Puma, which never missed a beat. And now I have the 2003 Celica, which (thus far) has proven to be exactly what it says on the tin and is still as good as the day it rolled off the production line. None of those involved any more than a week's browsing around, and the ZR was a complete impulse buy a month before I took my test after I won a few hundred quid at a poker game.
My point? If you over-think it to this level, there isn't a car on the planet that will fail to disappoint you. Unless the car's worth a significant proportion of your house's value, why bother? Tot up the time you've spent looking at cars, posting in this thread and then looking at cars some more - I'd be willing to bet that, at a normal hourly rate for an IT guy, you've already blown your budget in time alone.
Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
I'm personally responsible for all global warming