first things first, check the fluid level, its beside the brake fluid under
the hood.

If it smells like its getting hot, its 1 of 2 things:

1. Its slipping and worn out, unlikely at your mileage
2. She did a burnout that made the clutch slip. My brother did this once,
he was in reverse going about 40KPH, put it in first and let 'er rip. It
smelled pretty bad for about an hour in the car, but didn't do any permanent
damage, clutch only got replaced at 200000kms. Moral of the story is that
you can do that a few times without worry, but a regular practice of that and
your looking at replacing the clutch. Fun, but expensive.

t

Mark Adams wrote:
>My daughter came home last night and reported that she was having
>problems with her clutch. She said that is smelled like it was getting
>hot and it was hard to shift into lower gears, though she could easily
>shift into 5th which is unusual since it is normally a bit "stiff" going
>into 5th.
>
>I got up this morning and drive it and it seems just fine. The car has
>about 32,000 miles on it and to my knowledge the hydraulic clutch has
>never been worked on (we bought the car used last year).
>
>Has anyone seen any intermittent problems like this? What could be going
>on here?
>


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