My turn now... burnt clutch :(

[h22a accord]

damn that would piss me off, brand new car and it does this shite.

[VirIIx]

Man, i feel sorry for ya! I know how it feels..

let us know what happens and what the cause is.

I got them to check my master cylinder and they were saying no problems, it's all wear and tear when it was checked and changed - i'm also hella paranoid that i don't give it much if any acceleration when changing up gear as well :\

fecking Honda is all i can say..

This might've been asked already but how many km's you done? (i seem to of missed it)

[Faiz]

Im sorry to laugh, i didnt mean it that way just laughed to find it amusing the auto has a plus point.

lets have group hug

[Catcha]

Im sorry to laugh, i didnt mean it that way just laughed to find it amusing the auto has a plus point.

lets have group hug

keep laughing...because its the only plus point the auto has.

But when you get left at the lights by a manual Euro , I wonder who is laughing at who

[Faiz]

lol now thats just making me feel bad. Onloy reason i choose the auto so i can concentrate more on the road and handling. I found it sometimes a distraction to change gears in the city full of pedestrians. Hey the auuto v6 camry is as fast as the auto euro so im not complaining.

[euro77]

Just got a call this evening by my dealer. surprisingly they can't find anything wrong with it, they can't feel it slip and they didn't smell anything burning. This is wierd. I swear the smell on that Monday evening is real bad and the clutch did slip. The feel is like that you press the accelerator but the car won't go (just reving with no power to go, like in neutral), isn't that slipping?

Or is it just a temporary burning? Is there such things? Once the clutch has cool down it goes back to normal? I can smell slight burning smell (either the left over from Monday or actually the clutch I don't know) this morning when I drive it to the dealer (decided to drive it as the dealer is very close) but I can't feel it slipping though.

What you guys think?

[EuroAccord13]

Well, I do smell the burning of the clutch when I push hard through the gears.. which by the next day, would have been gone... maybe it was in your case too? OR.... The dealer didn't want to change it for ya :P

[aaronng]

I always personally show the dealer the problem. That way I can tell them what I think is not right, and they have to agree if they hear/see/feel/smell/taste(?) the same thing there and then.

[euro77]

Well, I've picked up the car, drive it around, give a hard launch... and I'm baffled. It no longer slip, the burnt smell no longer there... either I'm dreaming that Monday, or it's just a temporary burnt clutch (if there's such thing), or the dealer replaced something without telling me. What confuses me is when I picked up my car, it seems the battery has been disconnected, as all my radio station memory is gone (but surprisingly the time is not). any thoughts?

[viperx]

you can burn a bit of the clutch material off without it slipping which would cause the smell for a while. I've done it before. maybe you glossed your clutch plate material over and it fixed itself...

[yfin]

yeah it can slip and smell - then when it cools it is fine.

I can remember my dad driving my old 626 towing one of those hired furniture trailers (the boxed ones). We tried to reverse it up a steep driveway full of furniture - but it was really heavy and the car wouldn't move! We gave it heaps of throttle - eventually got there but the clutch was slipping heaps and smoking! Then it stank.

Once the clutch cooled down it was like nothing happened - no slipping, etc. Sold that car a few years later with the same clutch - worked normally.