Q: Clutch is soft, bleeds out. Is it the slave cylinder?
I'm having trouble shifting gears, it was fine yesterday but today my clutch went really soft. It takes several attempts to get it to shift to first gear. From research online, it seems like there's an air bubble in my fluid that's causing the clutch to be so soft. Thoughts?
My car has 58000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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