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T4 van. Occasional slip in 4th. How long can ignore it before I phone the AA for a lift?
Why would you risk it ?
Bit of a how long is a peace of string. Depends on how you drive, the road you drive, load you carry, the exact state of the clutch and some luck. Best to sort it.
Our Yaris lasted at least 3months before I had it fixed.
On 3 weeks so far and no sign of it since. My mechanic keeps letting me down but he's too cheap/good to not use him.
Fingers crossed for this Friday then...
It will get slowly worse, but its unlikely to self destruct. You'll find it harder to accelerate away quickly.
Our Mazda took a good few months to get a little worse before I decided to change it myself.
It only does 6000miles a year max.
You may be OK for a couple of hundred miles but best to get it seen to if its slipping in 4th. My T4s just been in for a service and they said they thought the clutch may be on its way out but I think they may have just been referring to the judder which you get when you slip the clutch which most of them seem to be afflicted with. I've had it for the last 5 years!
SJ - mines had that judder since I bought it with 106,000 on the clock. Its now showing 144,000 so it must be due a clutch at some point 🙂
your clutch is probably slipping due to a faulty master cylinder. its cheaper to replace that now than wait till it wrecks the clutch and you have to pay for both
Can't speak for a T4 but my dad's Focus has slipped a little when worked hard for as long as he's had it, 10000 miles and no worse than it was first time I noticed it. Then again he drives like a granny.
I'm a bit of Miss Daisy my self so it's not worked hard. I'm being careful not to use 5th and accelerate up long hills too.
Pitchpro- surely it's my clutch with nearly 150,000 miles on it?
learn to double-declutch...
could be but my clutch had 140kmiles on it and it was only because the cylinder had gone and wasnt disengaging 100% that it wore out. yours sounds similar to how mine went but i left it too long
driving with a slipping clutch is a great lesson in careful and economic driving! i've had that many bangers in the past, it has conditioned my driving! as above it depends how you drive, i've had 2-3 months out of them...
Thanks for the advice peeps