warmfuzzies

OK, thanks Adrian.

wonder what my rubber smell is then (insert comment) ?

Kevin

Adrian

Over heated front engine/transmission mount which is made from rubber. The old tranny can get pretty hot.
Ciao,
Adrian
964C4

dove

I took the car out again today and the clutch is definatly ok,The vibration is still there but only on hard acceleration whilst taking a bend.I'm starting to think maybe this is the very low suspension on maybe not so good shocks,is it possible that under hard acceleration with a crappy suspension set up that the car is maybe bouncing on the shocks due to lack of travel??I am going to take the car to autostrasse next week end for a check up.
I will be a bit more carefull when taking off in the future.I'm not into wheel spinning everywhere but this goon in a blacked out Golf GTI with blond bimbo started the abuse and yeh you know the rest and yeh when my clutch finally hooked up I blew him away.How hard is it not to take the bait with the max power spotty brigade .

Paul
C2 cab

joey bagadonuts

Virtually impossible.

Good luck on the diagnosis. Hopefully the repairs won't break the bank.

Rich W

A burning clutch also smells very much like burning rubber.

I won't tell you how I know...

That's why I had Jeff help me install a new clutch in my car.

Riccardo

Paul, have some dignity! Never give the time of day to inferior vehicles...

joey bagadonuts

A trackday is where you should clarify matters with "other" cars. Really, nothing like it.

Phil Raby

Paul, does your clutch still smell?

Cheers

johnfm

Dove

I'm sure you know this, but you are in a no win situation when you succumb to the rice brigade. Let them have the monopoly on neon lights and dark tint - whatever floats their boat. Just beware that 964's are great cars but aren't the quickest 0-60 beasts around.

dove

Agreed,

Paul
C2 cab

dove

Hi Phil, Theres no smell now,but let me say for 5 mins after it happened the smell was foul,a mixture of burning rubber & burning metal.I can safely say that this hasn't caused any probs with the car,I was suffering a wobble on acceleration that turned out to be a lost weight on a rear wheel,I did think at the time that the wobble was some sort of damage I may have caused but in the end the spin must have thrown the weight.
Paul
C2 cab

Christer

Compared to what?

rutz964C4

I did drop the clutch once on my C4 and the smell was horrible, less than 1000Km later suddenly the gear were not engaging and later the car wouldn´t move, the result new clutch.

I´ll never do that again. The only positive thing the DMF was checked and it was fine so no need to replace.


ALEX