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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: rorywatts on 15 January 2015, 18:19

Title: mk 4 clutch
Post by: rorywatts on 15 January 2015, 18:19

hi dont know if any one can help i have a mk4 1.8t gti 2001 im having problems with the clutch it was working fine today but when i went to drive home from work i could not engage gear with the engine running and when i turned it off and engaged a gear and tried starting it it lurched like the clutch was not being pressed seems strange how the clutch could just fail while the car was parked up and i had not had any problems before

Title: Re: mk 4 clutch
Post by: Tezmax on 15 January 2015, 19:57

Hi and welcome to the best VW Golf Forum on the planet... :whistle:

Your standard 18t clutch will fail just like any other, either it will wear out slowly and begin to slip or disintergrate and fail instantly.

Title: Re: mk 4 clutch
Post by: stina on 15 January 2015, 21:35

That sounds like either master or slave cylinder .

Title: Re: mk 4 clutch
Post by: Dizzy_PD on 18 January 2015, 18:05

It does sound like a faulty slave cylinder..
Same thing happened on my b7 a4 a while back, one day out of the blue it wouldn't engage any gears.
Changing the slave fixed it.