Problems with shifting after clutch replacement?
Posted by CyanCA@reddit | askcarguys | View on Reddit | 6 comments
Good morning, everyone! I recently took my 2007 Saab 9-3 2.8 Turbo to a mechanic to get the clutch replaced. They replaced the clutch disc, pressure plate, release bearing, slave cylinder, and resurfaced the flywheel after I burnt my old clutch out. After it was finished, I have been experiencing problems shifting into the gears after stopping for longer than 5-10 seconds. The car shifts fine while it is turned off and while constantly shifting but once I go to a red light and throw it into neutral to wait, putting it in 1st is impossible. The only work around I’ve found is shifting into 3rd then 1st but sometimes even 3rd is closed up so I just have to go up to the 6th gear. I’ve had the mechanic I took the car to bleed the hydraulic system, no help. Does anyone know what’s going on?
mmmmmyee@reddit
Take it back to the shop
CyanCA@reddit (OP)
I did, they drove it around and couldn’t replicate it so they bled the hydraulics and handed it back and told me that since they couldn’t figure out what was happening to me, they blamed it on me. I’ve been driving that car more than 2 years and I know how to drive a stick. I wouldn’t be burning up the clutch and not knowing how to shift.
FreemansAlive@reddit
I suggest ride with them when they drive it. They have a lot of incentive to say they can't find anything wrong.
Charming-Loan-1924@reddit
Sounds a lot like what happened to my Camaro at new River transmission in Savannah Georgia. They fucked up putting in a new throw out bearing and I could no longer get it in first with the car on.
CyanCA@reddit (OP)
What did you end up doing to fix it? Take it back and ask them to check over their work? I don’t want to sound like an asshole since the vehicle already gave them nightmares since Saabs are hard to work on.
Charming-Loan-1924@reddit
You should definitely try to get your money back or something like that and then take it to a SAAB specialist if you can find one