The engine of your car is elaborate, it is not always easy to interpret all the symptoms it sends us. However, it is totally necessary to try to stay on alert for the slightest symptom of weakness in your automobile to limit the risk of serious complications. If you have the feeling that your clutch is slipping on your Kia Cee D, you’re right to have started investigating. It’s a defect that must be taken into account quickly, otherwise you could end up with an unusable automobile. To help you in your way our team has decided to write this article which should allow you to see more clearly and make the right decisions to avoid aggravating the situation and make sure that it is indeed the trouble you are victim of. To accomplish this, we will first check out what a slipping clutch on Kia Cee D is and how to examine that this is what is happening to you, and then, what measures can be taken to solve the situation.
What is slipping clutch on Kia Cee D and how to detect it?
A Kia Cee D with a clutch that slips
The clutch of your Kia Cee D is the part that allows your automobile to shift 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 collect the power transmitted by the clutch. With wear, the clutch of your Kia Cee D 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 Kia Cee D?
There are different techniques to identify that the clutch of your Kia Cee D is slipping. You can conduct all of these checks 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 as well experience a burning smell.
To verify the first statement, you can stop, pull the hand brake, engage the first gear, accelerate reasonably by releasing the clutch of your vehicle softly, if your engine rises in revs but the Kia Cee D 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 automobile should stall, if not, your clutch is almost certainly dead.
What should I do if my clutch slips on my Kia Cee D?
Limit the wear of your Kia Cee D clutch
We will right now give you some suggestions to limit the wear of your clutch and avoid your clutch slipping on your Kia Cee D. To begin with, it is good not to leave your foot on the clutch pedal, regardless if the pressure you apply is very mild you will pre wear the clutch release bearing which will sooner or later result in a total change of the clutch kit. One more point not to be neglected, do not over-accelerate when you start, your acceleration must always be adapted to the speed of your engine. In the event that 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 Kia Cee D clutch
At last, in this last portion, we will address the repair part. In case the clutch of your Kia Cee D is dead, you might be stuck at a standstill and have no other option than to call the tow truck, because a dead clutch no longer allows the transmission to transmit power to the wheels. If this is the case, take note that you will have to change the complete clutch kit, this repair needs quite a few hours of work and is estimated to cost between 500 and 1200 euros based on the engine and the mechanic.
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