I have a 03 Ep3 113,000mi, completely stock. I just bought it a couple weeks ago. The PO said it had a new clutch put in at 85,000. I have been driving it for the past couple weeks and its been fine. Today I drove it about 15 miles and it was fine. On the way home immediately out of nowhere I couldn't give it more than 10% throttle without the clutch slipping. Fluid is good, pedal feels normal, as well as the engagement point. But it just slips bad. I just think its weird that it did this with no warning what so ever. Any ideas?

 

you test drove it and no problems? Literally it just said bye bye?

 

have a look at your clutch lines

 

Yea I just bought it 2 weeks ago. I been driving it for 2 weeks. Then out of no where literally it just went out.

What exactly am I looking for in my clutch line? I mean theres no leaks or obvious damage.

 

try bleeding the clutch lines?

 

define your way of clutch slipping...

 

Okay... to add to the weird here... I get home from work today. I take the car out around the block to try to further diagnose this problem and I couldn't get the clutch to clip at all. After I got it around the block I went out onto a main raod and got it up to 60 mph trying all kind of ways to get it to slip and nothing. I ever took it to 5500rpm in 1st and grabbed 2nd hard and the wheels broke loose a little bit. So I'm not saying its fixed because I didn't do nothing but let it sit overnight. So what you think is going on? I was thinking maybe air in the line and it worked its way down into the slave cylinder then sitting the air got back in the reservoir. Does that make since?

Anyway to answer your question, while It was doing the issue, in gear just cruising it was normal it would chill at the rpm it was supposed to. Add any more than 10-20% throttle and it would instantly go up 1-2k rpms until I let of the gas or the car caught up to the engine. But it would still accelerate slowly. Shifting, pedal feel, engagement point all felt normal, as well as moderate launch from a stop (like every day driving not hard tat all).

 

Today I drove it about 8 miles with no slipping then the last 2 miles it started to slip slightly. It was parked for an hour then no slipping on the way home. Its started to really puzzle me.

 

just a guess here it could be that your flyweel is burned and when it got to hot it starts to slip

 

Im going to take the inspection plate off and see if I can see anything. Im going to bleed it too. Hopefully the rain will stay away.