I bought a Honda for reliability and this son of a ***** car is having an issue that I can't seem to wrap my head around....
1. Issue
Driving along in town with regular traffic and about 10 minutes into the drive I start feeling the clutch pedal get firmer and firmer. If I drive the same way for a bit longer the clutch travel gets progressively firm until at one point yesterday I wasn't able to actually push the clutch in. I wiggled my foot on the pedal and boom back to normal with no issue since.
This has happened a few times but not to the level that I can't push the clutch in. Just firmer and firmer until it releases and once again it's good to go. Then it begins to firm up again....
Seems to have happened when it got warmer outside, but not sure as I can't find a correlation of weather to clutch pedal.
2. Solution
Took car to Honda and without even finding an issue they claim it's the clutch. They want $1900 to replace the clutch and flywheel because it has to be the clutch, no other solution. This pisses me off because there is a hydraulic line, clutch line, slave cylinder, and master cylinder which are all under warranty but they won't touch those.
They replaced the clutch hydraulic fluid recently, and then bled the line for air once I came back with this issue. This was last week.
3. Question
Does anyone have any idea of what could be causing this issue? It's NOT always happening, and is intermittent. I don't want to get stranded, and don't want to spend $1900 on an item which may or may not be causing this problem.
Any recommendations on a shop in the West End to look at the system?
Is this something that can be done in a garage with a friend?
Car is a 2010 Civic Si. Reading on forums it's not a very common problem and found few references to it.Some report replacing the clutch solves it, some report that it doesn't. Go figure....I'm at a loss...
Not to mention my suspension creaking....
1. Issue
Driving along in town with regular traffic and about 10 minutes into the drive I start feeling the clutch pedal get firmer and firmer. If I drive the same way for a bit longer the clutch travel gets progressively firm until at one point yesterday I wasn't able to actually push the clutch in. I wiggled my foot on the pedal and boom back to normal with no issue since.
This has happened a few times but not to the level that I can't push the clutch in. Just firmer and firmer until it releases and once again it's good to go. Then it begins to firm up again....
Seems to have happened when it got warmer outside, but not sure as I can't find a correlation of weather to clutch pedal.
2. Solution
Took car to Honda and without even finding an issue they claim it's the clutch. They want $1900 to replace the clutch and flywheel because it has to be the clutch, no other solution. This pisses me off because there is a hydraulic line, clutch line, slave cylinder, and master cylinder which are all under warranty but they won't touch those.
They replaced the clutch hydraulic fluid recently, and then bled the line for air once I came back with this issue. This was last week.
3. Question
Does anyone have any idea of what could be causing this issue? It's NOT always happening, and is intermittent. I don't want to get stranded, and don't want to spend $1900 on an item which may or may not be causing this problem.
Any recommendations on a shop in the West End to look at the system?
Is this something that can be done in a garage with a friend?
Car is a 2010 Civic Si. Reading on forums it's not a very common problem and found few references to it.Some report replacing the clutch solves it, some report that it doesn't. Go figure....I'm at a loss...
Not to mention my suspension creaking....