The engine of your car is elaborate, it is not always easy to read all the signs it sends us. However, it is absolutely necessary to try to stay on alert for the slightest sign of weakness in your car to limit the risk of serious concerns. If you have the impression that your clutch is slipping on your Volkswagen Atlas, you’re right to have started investigating. It’s a problem that must be taken into account fairly quickly, otherwise you could end up with an unusable car. To help you in your approach our team has decided to prepare this guide which should allow you to see more clearly and make the right choice to avoid aggravating the situation and be certain that it is indeed the issue you are victim of. To achieve this, we will first take a look at what a slipping clutch on Volkswagen Atlas is and how to examine that this is what is occurring to you, and then, what measures can be taken to solve the situation.
What is slipping clutch on Volkswagen Atlas and how to recognize it?
A Volkswagen Atlas with a clutch that slips
The clutch of your Volkswagen Atlas 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 Volkswagen Atlas 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 worn for it to engage on the flywheel.
How to recognize clutch slipping on an Volkswagen Atlas?
There are many solutions to identify that the clutch of your Volkswagen Atlas is slipping. You can execute all of these checks yourself.
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 experience a burning smell.
To confirm the first observation, you can stop, pull the parking brake, engage the first one, accelerate reasonably by releasing the clutch of your vehicle gently, in the event that your engine unit rises in revs but the Volkswagen Atlas keeps fixed it is the sign 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 Volkswagen Atlas?
Some advices to avoir the wear of your Volkswagen Atlas clutch
We will at this point give you some tips to limit the wear of your clutch and avoid your clutch slipping on your Volkswagen Atlas. Firstly, 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 end up in a full change of the clutch kit. An additional point not to be omitted, do not over-accelerate when you start, your acceleration must always be adapted to the speed of your engine unit. 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 Volkswagen Atlas clutch
Finally, in this last part, we will discuss the repair part. In case the clutch of your Volkswagen Atlas is dead, you may possibly be stuck at a standstill and have no other solution 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 case, take note 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 based on the engine and the workshop.
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