The engine of your car is elaborate, it is not always easy to read all the signals it sends us. However, it is totally necessary to try to stay on alert for the slightest symptom of weakness in your car to limit the risk of serious complications. If you have the sense that your clutch is slipping on your Fiat Doblo, you’re right to have started looking into it. It’s a defect that must be taken into account as soon as possible, otherwise you could end up with an useless car. To help you in your way our team has chose to produce this article which should allow you to see more clearly and make the right decisions to avoid aggravating the problem and make sure that it is indeed the problem you are victim of. To do this, we will first have a look at what a slipping clutch on Fiat Doblo is and how to check that this is what is occurring to you, and then, what steps can be taken to solve the problem.
What is slipping clutch on Fiat Doblo and how to spot it?
A Fiat Doblo with a clutch that slips
The clutch of your Fiat Doblo is the part that permits your car to shift gears. It is placed between your gearbox and your engine. It is the part that comes into contact with the flywheel which is located on the engine side and which will receive the power transmitted by the clutch. With wear, the clutch of your Fiat Doblo slips because it is made up of notches that engage in the flywheel, and with wear and friction it wears out. It is said that the clutch slips when its teeth are too damaged for it to engage on the flywheel.
How to spot clutch slipping on an Fiat Doblo?
There are several methods to identify that the clutch of your Fiat Doblo is slipping. You can conduct all of these checks without any help.
You can simply identify that your clutch slips when you accelerate and your engine revs up, but your car does not speed up, you may as well experience a burning smell.
To verify the first statement, you can stop, pull the hand brake, engage the first one, accelerate reasonably by releasing the clutch of your car delicately, in the event that your engine rises in revs but the Fiat Doblo remains fixed it is the symptom of a dead clutch.
Finally, you can put yourself, still in third gear, with the handbrake on, and by releasing it, your car should stall, if not, your clutch is almost certainly dead.
What should I do if my clutch slips on my Fiat Doblo?
Some advices to avoir the wear of your Fiat Doblo clutch
We will right now give you some recommendations to limit the wear of your clutch and avoid your clutch slipping on your Fiat Doblo. To begin with, it is wise not to leave your foot on the clutch pedal, regardless if the pressure you apply is very light you will pre wear the clutch release bearing which will sooner or later end up in a total change of the clutch kit. Another point not to be omitted, do not over-accelerate when you start your car, your acceleration must always be adapted to the speed of your engine. In the event you are at a standstill accelerate slowly, if you are at medium speed accelerate gradually when you release the clutch pedal of your car so as not to make it slip against your engine flywheel.
Replacing your Fiat Doblo clutch
At last, in this last part, we will talk about the repair part. In circumstance the clutch of your Fiat Doblo is useless, you might be stuck at a standstill and have no other choice than to phone the tow truck, because a dead clutch no longer allows the transmission to transfer power to the wheels. If this is the circumstance, be aware that you will have to change the complete clutch kit, this repair requires quite a few hours of work and is estimated to cost between 500 and 1200 euros depending on the engine and the mechanic.
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