Q: clutch slave cylinder goes out and car is towed

asked by on August 17, 2016

The Clutch Slave Cylinder went out on my car at around 23,000 miles. It was so fortunate that I was in my driveway when it happened. The clutch pedal went all the way to the floorboard and it would not engage. I had to have the car towed to the dealership and they told me that it was due to misuse of the vehicle from a burned flywheel. In researching on my own, I learned that hundreds of drivers with my make/model and manual transmission are having this same problem with the plastic CSC in their cars. I truly feel this should be a recall issue! In your experience, what will fix this?

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