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#1 MiniSprite93

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Posted 20 May 2012 - 09:39 PM

Ok, so I'm really not proud to admit this, and I wouldn't have if it wasn't for the random thing that followed, but anyway...

An extremely short notice request to stick ribbons on my car and give my cousin and a couple of her friends a lift to their school prom FORCED me to go through an automatic car wash. I know its awful :( but I had no choice, the car was a mess and I wanted to make sure it was all nice for them!

Anyway, back to the point, after I emerged the other side, I pushed the clutch in to put it into first and roar away, but the clutch felt ridiculously light in comparison to how it normally is! This went on for the entire journey, until I had covered about 20 miles at which point it slowly started going back to its normal self. Its not a complaint, the light clutch made for quite a nice drive haha! Just wondering why it happened in the first place?!

I chose the wash that did an under chassis clean as well, and not sure if this could have had something to do with it?

But yeah just wondering if anybody knows why that would have happened? Haha! Its probably just something really obvious, and I'm being a massive idiot!

#2 joshspragg

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Posted 20 May 2012 - 10:06 PM

umm, water got in somewhere?

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Posted 20 May 2012 - 10:09 PM

I chose the wash that did an under chassis clean as well, and not sure if this could have had something to do with it?


I wouldn't have bothered with this, I imagine this is quite bad for a mini, even worse than the car wash itself. Water might have got to the back of the bulkead where the arm is.

#4 Alex_B

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Posted 20 May 2012 - 10:10 PM

possibly got the pin that holds the arm on the slave cylinder, and temporarily "oiled" it with water, and as it dried became its usual hard self?




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