Need clutch pedal extension to the left

I have some arthritis of the hip and knee. I have no trouble with the brake and accelerator of my 5 speed '03 TDI, but the clutch pedal is for me so far to the right (and my feet are big) that I have trouble pulling my foot up and angling it over to the right. What I am looking for is something that would clamp to the clutch pedal with a flat bar that would extend to the left.

I imagine that some young Johnnies will make fun of this seemingly silly request, but it will come to bother you too when you hit 60 or so. I'm crowding 70 now. If you have a real suggestion please post. But don't just make wisecracks, please.

creativemobility.com have a pedal extension kit that I could throw away most of just to get the piece that clamps to the pedal....but they refuse to sell me just the clamping piece, which is all I need. Thanks in advance

Not pretty, but the majority of pedal extensions / augmentations I have seen or made have been fashioned from wood.

Wood is nice because you can easily saw / chisel what you want, then lag bolt it to the pedal in some way

Something like this, but you could extend the piece off to the left further.

Can we get that pedal out as a single piece?
I would do that then have a new one fabricated from welded bent bar stock.

bolt a piece of angle iron onto it? some bolts on the old clutch pedal wont matter if your not going to use it.. then wrap it in some skateboard grip tape.

if we live long enough, at some point were going to have to make the hard choice to just give up the our keys.. a 70 year old here just killed a bunch of kids on bikes.. If I make it there it'll be one of the hardest things to do, but mebe cars will drive them selves by then.

Examined the clutch pedal ....and the darned thing is *plastic* with an I section in the shaft with zig-zag stiffening ribs...with the pedal itself not particularly thick. I think it is, alas, a piece of just-good-enough minimalist Cherman design...and if I feck in anyway, it might die. I'm particularly worried that if I extend the clutch pedal to the left, I'm may introduce a twisting moment that the shaft and pedal wasn't set up for. Sigh...if it was good honest steel, I'd dive right in.

sdean7855 said:

Examined the clutch pedal ....and the darned thing is *plastic* with an I section in the shaft with zig-zag stiffening ribs...with the pedal itself not particularly thick. I think it is, alas, a piece of just-good-enough minimalist Cherman design...and if I feck in anyway, it might die. I'm particularly worried that if I extend the clutch pedal to the left, I'm may introduce a twisting moment that the shaft and pedal wasn't set up for. Sigh...if it was good honest steel, I'd dive right in.

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Actually that design is pretty robust. Not sure how much side torque it would take if it were drilled,but depressing the clutch doesn't apply a lot of pressure. Fuel pedal is the same material. Something clamped on probably would be fine.

if you're worried about twisting then bolt or clamp the extension as close to the fulcrum as you can get it .... in other words a long extension or even a second clutch pedal bolted or siamesed to the original ... you could cut the old pad off and sandwich the two pedals arms together... i even have a spare pedal, just pay shipping and it's yours

What about putting the brake pedal from an automatic on the clutch pedal? I seem to remember someone here doing that for a similar problem. It's a wider pedal...

jimbote said:

if you're worried about twisting then bolt or clamp the extension as close to the fulcrum as you can get it .... in other words a long extension or even a second clutch pedal bolted or siamesed to the original ... you could cut the old pad off and sandwich the two pedals arms together... i even have a spare pedal, just pay shipping and it's yours

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That's what I was just thinking of. Another pedal along side the original pedal. Just depends how much wider the OP needs to go. You could put some bolts through with sleeves over the bolts between the two pedal arms and get whatever added width you would need.