[Goodluckgluck]

Yesterday morning my clutch started acting wonky.

I found the TSB referencing debris from the clutch line damper possibly interfering with the clutch operation.

As per the TSB I replaced the line and elbow but occasionally my clutch is still lower than normal with a release point lower than normal.

I'm assuming this is because debris has entered the slave cylinder?

Has anyone encountered this?

 

[Barry Allen]

Yes, nothing will fix the defective slave cylinder other than replacement. You are probably living on very borrowed time with that car soon going to break in a very bad way.

Is there any chance you are still within your powertrain warranty?

 

[Goodluckgluck]

Yes, nothing will fix the defective slave cylinder other than replacement. You are probably living on very borrowed time with that car soon going to break in a very bad way.

Is there any chance you are still within your powertrain warranty?

Afraid not, 65k miles.

Whatever happened to the 100k power train warranty?

 

[jblackburn]

Afraid not, 65k miles.

Whatever happened to the 100k power train warranty?

Their "research showed it wasn't important to people", so they went back to 60k in 2016.

In reality I think they got eaten alive in warranty costs on their piece of crap 2.4L Equinoxes, V8's eating AFM lifters, and 1st gen Cruzes.

 

[Barry Allen]

Afraid not, 65k miles.

Find an independent shop to do the job and use an aftermarket slave cylinder - not the AC Delco part. I’m convinced there are defective parts still in their supply chain, not replaced with new parts.

If you do have the dealership do the work with AC Delco parts, you get 24 months unlimited mileage warranty on the part and labor. That way if it fails again (as it did on my car), it’s covered for 2 years.

 

[jblackburn]

Find an independent shop to do the job and use an aftermarket slave cylinder - not the AC Delco part. I’m convinced there are defective parts still in their supply chain, not replaced with new parts.

If you do have the dealership do the work with AC Delco parts, you get 24 months unlimited mileage warranty on the part and labor. That way if it fails again (as it did on my car), it’s covered for 2 years.

Wasn’t the clutch line that sheds material the defective part that clogged up the orifice in the slave cylinder?

 

[Barry Allen]

Wasn’t the clutch line that sheds material the defective part that clogged up the orifice in the slave cylinder?

The recall in the EU and UK said it was the seals in the slave cylinder that shed material into the hydraulic fluid, affecting the brakes and also the clutch hydraulics would obviously give out. In the EU/UK it is a safety recall where they replace brake parts including the ABS controller and proportioning valve because of the debris that contaminates things. The recall is regardless of ownership or mileage because it is a safety issue.

Here in in the USA is GM telling people go get fecked and only fixing the clutch if it fails within the powertrain warranty.

 

[Goodluckgluck]

The recall in the EU and UK said it was the seals in the slave cylinder that shed material into the hydraulic fluid, affecting the brakes and also the clutch hydraulics would obviously give out. In the EU/UK it is a safety recall where they replace brake parts including the ABS controller and proportioning valve because of the debris that contaminates things. The recall is regardless of ownership or mileage because it is a safety issue.

Here in in the USA is GM telling people go get fecked and only fixing the clutch if it fails within the powertrain warranty.

Have you filed a complaint with the NHTSA? I plan on filing a complaint and I recommend you do as well. I don't know if there are enough of these cars sold so make a difference but it's worth a shot.

If there is a recall for it's sister car there is no reason (other than corporate profits) why the American version shouldn't be covered.

 

[Barry Allen]

Have you filed a complaint with the NHTSA? I plan on filing a complaint and I recommend you do as well. I don't know if there are enough of these cars sold so make a difference but it's worth a shot.

If there is a recall for it's sister car there is no reason (other than corporate profits) why the American version shouldn't be covered.

1. Yes I did file a complaint, TWICE. I encourage everyone to do so.
2. There are not enough of these cars sold to make a difference. NHTSA analyzes failures over the entire model production and it's like maybe 2% of these cars were manual transmission, so a 2% failure rate to them doesn't matter because they don't care otherwise.
3. The EU is actually first world countries with governments that care about citizens. The USA is a 3rd world dump of a country.

 

[DWSCruze2012]

The EU is actually first world countries with governments that care about citizens. The USA is a 3rd world dump of a country.

A little harsh! As an American, I do agree that we let go of the people at the bottom and tell them they are on their own. And as far as the 100k powertrain warranty here is the thing: Corporate CEO's and chairs are legally bound as fiduciaries to do everything legal to generate profits. Their calculus is based on that. It is not the government. Even though we have 23.7 million people full and part time working for the US government, they do not have the manpower (oops) I mean bandwidth to investigate every little thing.

So, it is the corporation that abuses us much more than our government, in my opinion. Some companies get a bad reputation for producing junk - like US automanfacturers in the 80's - and competitors win the customers.