New2TDIzzz
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Hi all,
I'm no mechanic by any means... I'll throw that out there before I rant..
So I just bought my 14 TDI Jetta 5 speed in September '19. I bought it with 15k miles on it and it currently has 33xxx... Around December-ish, my clutch began acting weird. I was taking a long drive ~250 miles and noticed when I engaged my clutch it didn't come all the way back up.. It happened for a couple days and I didn't think anything of it (I'm in NNY and figured it was the cold causing it to stick). It happened randomly here and there and I shook it off. Yesterday I went to start my car and my clutch went right to the floor.
Minus the beginning pressure on the top of the clutch, it goes straight to the floor. I did some reading on here and everyone's first step was to bleed the "clutch" line under the airbox. I bled that with a power bleeder.. Note: There wasn't a ton of brake fluid in there - more toward the min. I refilled then power bled. Still nothing happening after the bleed. I'm thinking my next step is replacing the Slave (which I can't seem to find out exactly where it's located)?
-Also, I check under to see if any fluid was leaking; none that I can see anywhere
*Maybe unrelated but when started, my glow plug light is flashing
I haven't beat this car hardly at all minus the one or two burnouts I did when I first got it. Always been easy on the clutch, just don't know why this would start happening with only 30k on it. I've only owned manual vehicles and have only had 1 other clutch problem (clutch itself replacement) after 150k on that vehicle.
As always, you guys are awesome and any helpful info would be appreciated!!
John
I'm no mechanic by any means... I'll throw that out there before I rant..
So I just bought my 14 TDI Jetta 5 speed in September '19. I bought it with 15k miles on it and it currently has 33xxx... Around December-ish, my clutch began acting weird. I was taking a long drive ~250 miles and noticed when I engaged my clutch it didn't come all the way back up.. It happened for a couple days and I didn't think anything of it (I'm in NNY and figured it was the cold causing it to stick). It happened randomly here and there and I shook it off. Yesterday I went to start my car and my clutch went right to the floor.
Minus the beginning pressure on the top of the clutch, it goes straight to the floor. I did some reading on here and everyone's first step was to bleed the "clutch" line under the airbox. I bled that with a power bleeder.. Note: There wasn't a ton of brake fluid in there - more toward the min. I refilled then power bled. Still nothing happening after the bleed. I'm thinking my next step is replacing the Slave (which I can't seem to find out exactly where it's located)?
-Also, I check under to see if any fluid was leaking; none that I can see anywhere
*Maybe unrelated but when started, my glow plug light is flashing
I haven't beat this car hardly at all minus the one or two burnouts I did when I first got it. Always been easy on the clutch, just don't know why this would start happening with only 30k on it. I've only owned manual vehicles and have only had 1 other clutch problem (clutch itself replacement) after 150k on that vehicle.
As always, you guys are awesome and any helpful info would be appreciated!!
John