Nightmare ,clutch problem!!!

[The Duke]

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I dont go wot often
But its not cause i dont want.
Having big issue to got my car fixed.
Clutch slipping real bad, been complaining about noisy clucthbearing since i got the car. Took taht to the dealership, twice and they kept my car 2 days each times. Conclusion thety are telling me its inside tranny, the gear i know that there is a noise there but its not what i complain about!!!!!!!! anyways got mad leave with the car not fixed.
Few days latter notice something really wrong with the clutch, begin to slip bad but not all the times.
One more time again take that to the dealer and ask to go for road test with the guy who gonna fix (or supposed to fix my car)
At first he drive normaly never floored it driving like my mom and told me everything seems find.
Told him how to drive to make that happen and he did
Agreed with me its sliping a bit.
Told me ok i will take a look at that.
Cool my baby gonna be fix
Two days latter got it back, and fu** all been done one more time again again
Talk with the manager (that guy should work at toys`r`us) and he told me its not slipping all his tech told him
Been in the car with that guy and he aggred thats slipping a bit.
Thats bull sh*t and ask if its possible to talk with that guy and the answer had been no.
Left so mad and now my clucth is a lot worst slipping
every time i go wot, it s why i dont go wot often.
U all know the smell of a cluctch slipping and the feeling.
Sometimes i really feel like if the slave not working properly.
But i guest the manager there not listening at me at all or just dont gave a sh*t, thinking is better then every body else.
Now im stock with my problem and i have to call customer service.
Cant enjoy driving my car cause something is defect and eating my clutch away..
anabody got advice for me?

[Aeain]

I am pretty sure my clutch is going out but, this is my first Manual car and I really haven't had the chance to ask any of my friends.

My symptoms are when I give it anywhere around half-throttle the engines revs 500-1000rpms the drops back down and the car accelerates. Pretty sure that's the clutch if not, please tell me.

[Jim Lewis]

Guys, not to sound like dad here, but after being a GM service manager, and doing what I do now, there's no "fair" in life when it comes to stuff like this. There's not a manufacturer in the US, other than Porsche and Mercedes, that provides any type of warranty on the clutch on manual trans vehicles. Period. If you're dogging it a little, or learning how to drive on it, yuo've caused some good clutch wear, and that's just life.

Sorry, but you have to buy a clutch.

[Aeain]

Well, considering I myself have put maybe 5000 miles on the car and my dad put 2000 on the car. It seems a little weird, don't you think, that at 7000 miles the clutch is going out?

[Jim Lewis]

Who am I to say? I mean, your grandma could be driving the car - my point is that just like road hazard on tires and wear on wiper blades, it's not a warranty covered item. Fair or not doesn't matter - going to the dealership and getting yourself arrested because you hit the service manager for telling you the same thing I'm telling you doesn't make sense, either. And yes, I've seen it, and yes, I'm trying to prevent it.

[Sp00ner]

It all depends on how you drive it, yes it does seem a little fast, but this is not the easiest manual tranny I've ever driven. In fact, I'd say it was about as touchy as the Muncie that was in my TransAm. I couldn't imagine learning how to drive stick on this thing. It's VERY easy to slip the clutch when going into gear, and do that a few too many times, a little to hard, and you've got some glazing or wear the hell out of it. I'm not gonna call you a bad driver or anything, but it dosen't take too much to burn a clutch out. Even an extermely high quality one can go fast. You watch Monster Garage? They installed a brand new tranny into an old Impala, ran it to 150+ mph a few times, and the clutch was smoked.

That said, I have heard some people complain about the clutch before, I think at least Aeian has as well. It's something that you should get checked fast, cause letting it get too bad can only lead to worse issues...

[The Duke]

Used to work for gm 4 years,i am a former mechanics working for hyundai now. And i know for fact there something wrong since the first week i got the car. Mean it`s my 3 new saturn 1st had been 1999 sc2 , drove it for about 60 000km and gave a lot of hard time to that car and never once the clutch did that, i am 30 years old and driving since 16, and every car i own beside my L300 2001 had been manual and i never ever ever got problems like that right away with any of my car.We got problem like that on some of our model (hyundai) cause of the slave cylinder have a spring valve to relaese the pressure slowly, the clutch got wearn so fast, by the consummer protection thats a defect causing more dammage if you dont fix it.
Conclusion we were obligate to replace cluctch bearing pressure plate, send the flywheel to machine shop, and replacer the faulty slave cylinder that start and cause all these problems.
And i believe that can be something similar in my case.
Anyway i will try to get in touch with my prvious employer( gm).
Cause in the past i used to rebuild transmission and engine for them.
I been qualified good enough for theme to pay me doing that after i diagnostic
the problem, I know im not workins for a saturn dealer now, sad but if i been i
listen and really try to see if the customer might be right on that. and if he is!

[fastimportracer]

i was just wondering if the clutch is that hard to use i had one in my old car and it was not hard but every one says that this one is i just want to know if it is really that bad

[Aeain]

I don't know but, I will admit I learned to drive on this car. I have done some small burn outs, hard launches, and the such.

[The Duke]

Good news to anybody who wounder how my story gonna end.
Just talk with custumer service and since its my 3 rd saturn own, for the financing of my car The know i been working for them where , when and for how long the did pay me to do what they know they were paying me for.
I think that help my case a little.
I will find out monday, but they told me i should go to an other dealer to got the diagnostic straight.
I will gave feedback on that next week.