In the past month I've had the pedal stick down on 3 separate occasions. On June 16 I stopped into the dealer where I purchase the car new. At that time they stated that they would have to schedule the car do come in for diagnosis. I asked about their inventory on hand and they had the Master cylinder in stock but the Slave cylinder was a warehouse item. I told them I wanted the slave cylinder on hand at the dealer before I brought in in for dianosis and when they argued about it I told them I would pay for the slave cylinder if necessary, I did not want my car sitting on a rack for 6 months waiting for parts. So they relented and ordered the slave cylinder. Exactly one week later the clutch stuck again when I was going home from work and I headed straight to the dealer with it stuck down. Getting it to fully disengage not possible but it wasn't dragging too much to prevent me from popping into first so I pulled the transmission into neutral when I had to stop for a light. Got to the dealer in that condition and that limited any questioning about spending a day and a half "diagnosing' the problem. They called me last Friday to advise me that if they found the problem was a worn out clutch disc I would be liable for the 1500+ dollar cost to service that wear item. My car has 33,000 miles on it and has always been driven rather gently. So that clutch is NOT worn out, from what I've read here it's barely broken in. Expect to hear tomorrow that it's ready to pick up.
About the only good news in this case is that after getting a bit hostile with the dealer about their being unwilling to provide me a rental they broke down and paid for a rental. BTW, I'm semi retired and a Ford Stockholder living in Metro Detroit and had they not comped me a rental I would have been at the next stockholders meeting. Ended up with a Nissan Kicks which does get excellent gas mileage but it is the most gutless vehicle I have ever driven, I would guess 0-60 times in the 12-14 second range.
One question that is going to bother me is will I have to replace that slave cylinder in another 30.000 miles?
About the only good news in this case is that after getting a bit hostile with the dealer about their being unwilling to provide me a rental they broke down and paid for a rental. BTW, I'm semi retired and a Ford Stockholder living in Metro Detroit and had they not comped me a rental I would have been at the next stockholders meeting. Ended up with a Nissan Kicks which does get excellent gas mileage but it is the most gutless vehicle I have ever driven, I would guess 0-60 times in the 12-14 second range.
One question that is going to bother me is will I have to replace that slave cylinder in another 30.000 miles?