Air in clutch - Toyota Yaris

sillysocks

Hi All....
Looking for some info.
Had my toyota yaris in for the accelerator recall yesterday, noticed this morning going to work it was very hard to get the car into gear but thought maybe I just hadn't pushd in the clutch enough or something.

Got into the car at lunchtime and couldn't put it into gear at all when the engine was on.

A mechanic from the Toyota garage came out and has said that there's air in the clutch. He was able to get it going enough to bring it back to the garage but wondering if anyone know whether this is a big problem? Not sure if it'll be covered under warranty yet but would it be an expensive job? Car is 2006.

He says its just coincedence that it went the day after the recall but who knows!

Buffman

sillysocks wrote: »

A mechanic from the Toyota garage came out and has said that there's air in the clutch. He was able to get it going enough to bring it back to the garage but wondering if anyone know whether this is a big problem?

Not a major problem, and easily fixed.

sillysocks wrote: »

Not sure if it'll be covered under warranty yet but would it be an expensive job? Car is 2006.

I would say there is a fair chance that something they did caused the problem. I don't know the details about what they are replacing on the accelerator, so can't say if it involved the clutch or not.

sillysocks wrote: »

He says its just coincedence that it went the day after the recall but who knows!

Of course he's going to say that, but it's highly unlikely. I'd be looking for it to be fixed for free.

hiluxman

suspicious that it just happened after you got work done, especialy work thats been done on the acc. pedal. that sort of thing doesnt happen to a yaris that new. more than likely the mechanic has broken somthing.

sillysocks

Well apparently its the clutch master cylinder thats gone. Got a call this evening to let me know.

Charging 210 eur to replace it. Husband was onto them and got nowhere with trying to find out if what they had done could have caused it.

I had noticed it a tiny bit the morning before it went into the recall, but nothing major. Unless maybe it had been on the way out and something they did made it worse. Frustrating, and annoying we can't prove one way or other if it was something they did.

sillysocks

Rang the garage agin this morning and got nowhere. He agreed that it was unusual for it to go when the car is 4 years old (think there's about 41k km on clock), but insisted it wasn't related. Said that the accelerator recall just replaces two nuts or bolts and that its no where connected to clutch issue.

Have called Toyota head office customer care and they're looking into it but doesn't seem like we're going to get anywhere! Frustrating

Mr Benevolent

Very unlikely to be related problems. Your clutch slave cylinder is on the way out and that's it.

JHMEG

Replacing the clutch master cylinder is a tiny job. Using spurious or 2nd hand parts it should also be fairly cheap.