Hi Mike and welcome to this forum. I’ve got one of these and I’m up to 23K miles. I’ve had one issue fixed under warranty, other than that the cars been great.
Assuming the clutch is hydraulic (I’ll have look later today) it should be reasonably simple, consisting of two main parts, the clutch pedal/master cylinder and slave cylinder. The most likely slave cylinder arrangement will be a concentric slave cylinder and release bearing.
If this is the case the pedal would be returned by 2 forces, the main one being the springs in the clutch acting via the release bearing and the slave cylinder pushing the pedal back hydraulically, and I’d also expect a small spring on the pedal that would return it to its home position and prevent rattle.
The issue with the 3’s was apparently a seal within the master cylinder and your symptoms sound very similar.
You’ve taken it back to the supplying dealer and the car has a 5 year warranty, it’s their responsibility to fix it both as the supplying dealer and it’s under warranty.
Before you accept the car back ask what they’ve done to fix it, unless they’ve done something specific ie replaced the master cylinder, it’s quite likely it’ll happen again. These things don’t fix themselves, they may go away for a while but unless you replace the part that’s causing the problem it won’t be fixed.
Assuming the clutch is hydraulic (I’ll have look later today) it should be reasonably simple, consisting of two main parts, the clutch pedal/master cylinder and slave cylinder. The most likely slave cylinder arrangement will be a concentric slave cylinder and release bearing.
If this is the case the pedal would be returned by 2 forces, the main one being the springs in the clutch acting via the release bearing and the slave cylinder pushing the pedal back hydraulically, and I’d also expect a small spring on the pedal that would return it to its home position and prevent rattle.
The issue with the 3’s was apparently a seal within the master cylinder and your symptoms sound very similar.
You’ve taken it back to the supplying dealer and the car has a 5 year warranty, it’s their responsibility to fix it both as the supplying dealer and it’s under warranty.
Before you accept the car back ask what they’ve done to fix it, unless they’ve done something specific ie replaced the master cylinder, it’s quite likely it’ll happen again. These things don’t fix themselves, they may go away for a while but unless you replace the part that’s causing the problem it won’t be fixed.
