#@~$%*^ £&#@! Clutch slipping.

[Barney Paull-Edwards]

First off try bleeding the slave cylinder properly.If you can get under the car drill a hole so that it faces the plate somewhere near the edge.Place a small pipe(bit bigger than a WD40 pipe) push it just through the hole and give the clutch a good squirt of de-greaser and try car.If it still slipping and if all else fails a good dose of Coca-Cola will clean off crap better than anything else.

[Ferret]

Did you get the flywheel ground to remove hot spots during the last clutch job? If you do it this time around, make sure the machine shop gets it right. I don't have the specs for the flywheel but somebody around here probably does...

Unfortunately the clutch job was done for the previous owner - I have no idea as to the state of the flywheel until it gets removed off the car.

[Paul in NZ]

this happened to a freind with a e 39 540 too.the flywheel either hadnt been machined or hadnt been machined properly or the dual mass cant be machined....

[GS535i]

In rare cases, the slave cylinder push rod is not fully seated into the cup of the release lever ( or the cup of the slave itself, depending on the design): were that the case, there would always be excessive pressure applied to the pressure plate ...... taking only a small movement of the pedal to release the clutch.