Hey everyone! Please bare with me while I try my best to describe the issue I'm having.
I have a 2012 Fiesta S sedan with the 5 speed manual transmission. This evening it started doing something weird. I started the car as normal, and put it into reverse to back out of my driveway. The car lurched backwards suddenly, and continued trying to move even when I mashed the clutch pedal to the floor. It was like the pedal wasn't even actuating the clutch and the brakes can only do so much. The only way I could get the car out of gear was to actually turn the car off, at which point I could slide the shifter into neutral. I started the car back up, slid the shifter into first and had the same problem, nearly crashing into my gate in the process. I turn the car off again and get out, look under the hood... though it took me a moment to realize that I wasn't likely to find the problem from the top like that. Got back in the car, started it again only to have the car behave itself this time.
Fast forward to later this evening when the gremlin resurfaced on my way back home. I was stopped at a light, and when it changed I shifted and the car lurched as it tried to take off. The clutch wasn't responding again and the car wasn't to happy about being turned off while in first gear. (Trust me, last resort.) It took pumping the clutch a few times to get it to let the shifter out of first so I could start the car again. One thing I noticed as well, was that the pedal would feel hesitant to return to the up position when the car is letting the clutch do its job. You know how you drive a car for a while and get to know it and when something is not quite right but you have a hard time nailing down how to describe it? It felt almost like normal driving, but not quite. Kinda feels like the pedal is too light coming back up under my foot and certainly makes smooth acceleration from a dead stop rather difficult.
Any ideas on what I should check?
Thanks!
I have a 2012 Fiesta S sedan with the 5 speed manual transmission. This evening it started doing something weird. I started the car as normal, and put it into reverse to back out of my driveway. The car lurched backwards suddenly, and continued trying to move even when I mashed the clutch pedal to the floor. It was like the pedal wasn't even actuating the clutch and the brakes can only do so much. The only way I could get the car out of gear was to actually turn the car off, at which point I could slide the shifter into neutral. I started the car back up, slid the shifter into first and had the same problem, nearly crashing into my gate in the process. I turn the car off again and get out, look under the hood... though it took me a moment to realize that I wasn't likely to find the problem from the top like that. Got back in the car, started it again only to have the car behave itself this time.
Fast forward to later this evening when the gremlin resurfaced on my way back home. I was stopped at a light, and when it changed I shifted and the car lurched as it tried to take off. The clutch wasn't responding again and the car wasn't to happy about being turned off while in first gear. (Trust me, last resort.) It took pumping the clutch a few times to get it to let the shifter out of first so I could start the car again. One thing I noticed as well, was that the pedal would feel hesitant to return to the up position when the car is letting the clutch do its job. You know how you drive a car for a while and get to know it and when something is not quite right but you have a hard time nailing down how to describe it? It felt almost like normal driving, but not quite. Kinda feels like the pedal is too light coming back up under my foot and certainly makes smooth acceleration from a dead stop rather difficult.
Any ideas on what I should check?
Thanks!