VW Polo MK6 - Slave Cylinder Seal Issue?

[biggerbigneil 0]

Morning!

 

Been a while since I've posted on here but this is still my favourite VW forum!

 

Right, this morning driving the Polo to the station from cold, selecting a gear was very difficult but no grinding or clonking noises while doing this.

 

When parking up the car stalled and I couldn't select any gear without grinding the gearbox - nice noise!

 

Then the clutch pedal goes down and stays down so I'm thinking it's the clutch or a slave cylinder.

 

The car is a 2003 (MK6) VW Polo 1.2 with 38,000 miles on the clock but it's had a hard life as a shopping cart and many short trips.

 

The RAC guy who used to be an Audi technician lifted the clutch pedal back up and everything now works fine it seems....

 

However he suggested it's either a seal on the master cylinder or slave cylinder that has rolled down and rolled back up as he's pulled up the clutch pedal. More than likely the Master cylinder.

 

Any thoughts?

 

I don't want to take it to VW as they'll just replace the master cylinder I imagine, maybe a specialist and advise them what I think might be the issue? Can they just replace a seal and be able to see which one is faulty?

 

Thanks!

[markrtw 0]

Do they have hydraulic clutches? I thought they used cables like the mk2/3 golfs etc. If they do use a cable, then it sounds like the old self adjusting clutch cable self adjuster mechanism is on the way out. If so, just replace the clutch cable (you could even put in a manual adjust cable to eliminate the possibility of this ever happening again).

Failing that, if it is hydraulic, I would guess at the clutch master cylinder from experience. I usually find that it the pedel can be returned to the top then it's master, if it wont, then it's the slave. Saying that, sods law you'll probably replace one to find it's the other!

 

Hope this helps.

[biggerbigneil 0]

Thanks, just taken it in and ended up agreeing on changing both master and slave. All in around £250, which isn't too bad I think :-)