The engine of your car is elaborate, it is not always easy to understand all the signals it sends us. Nevertheless, it is definitely essential to try to stay on alert for the slightest indicator of weakness in your car to limit the risk of serious problems. If you have the feeling that your clutch is slipping on your Fiat Fullback, you’re right to have started investigating. It’s a problem 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 prepare this article which should allow you to see more clearly and make the right choice to avoid aggravating the problem and ensure that it is indeed the trouble you are victim of. To accomplish this, we will first have a look at what a slipping clutch on Fiat Fullback is and how to examine that this is what is occurring to you, and then, what measures can be taken to resolve the problem.
What is slipping clutch on Fiat Fullback and how to detect it?
A Fiat Fullback with a clutch that slips
The clutch of your Fiat Fullback is the part that enables your engine to change gears. It is located 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 Fullback 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 overused for it to engage on the flywheel.
How to detect clutch slipping on an Fiat Fullback?
There are different techniques to identify that the clutch of your Fiat Fullback is slipping. You can conduct all of these tests on your own.
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 also encounter a burning smell.
To verify the first observation, you can stop, pull the hand brake, engage the first gear, accelerate reasonably by releasing the clutch of your car softly, if it turns out your engine motor rises in revs but the Fiat Fullback is still stationary it is the indicator 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 probably dead.
What should I do when my clutch slips on my Fiat Fullback?
Limit the wear of your Fiat Fullback clutch
We will now give you some recommendations to limit the wear of your clutch and avoid your clutch slipping on your Fiat Fullback. To begin with, it is good not to leave your foot on the clutch pedal, even if the pressure you apply is very mild you will pre wear the clutch release bearing which will sooner or later lead to a full change of the clutch kit. An additional point not to be neglected, do not over-accelerate when you start, your acceleration must constantly be adapted to the velocity of your engine motor. If 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 Fullback clutch
Finally, in this last part, we will talk about the repair part. In case the clutch of your Fiat Fullback is dead, you may be stuck at a standstill and have no other solution than to call the tow truck, because a dead clutch no longer allows the transmission to transfer power to the wheels. If this is the case, bear in mind that you will have to change the complete clutch kit, this repair requires quite a few hours of work and is approximated to cost between 500 and 1200 euros according to the engine and the workshop.
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