BigDons

BigDons

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Anyone help.

Garage just fitted a brand new Britpart clutch to my 1999 disco.

Trying to get it into 1st is almost impossible and reverse, you have to stop the engine, engage the gear and restart the car ! Chunky changes all the way and judder. Also if you don't keep your foot on the break it creeps.

The first third of clutch travel is loose. rest is normal.

They have bled the hydraulics and made sure there is no air in there but no difference.

Any advice ?
 
erm, yes.
But if it's bled and depending on the sound it makes, it's a going-in-again job anyway.
Might be clutch plate, tensioner plate put on with wrong torque, fork sitting funny, release bearing sitting funny.
I'd open it up and have a look. Not that much work if done properly, but garages dont usually use coppaslip :D
 
fitted a clutch to a RRC and had terrible noise from it tried changing gearboxes and transfer boxes with no change at all :eek: turned out that on of the cams on the (NEW HD) fork was sticking. so much for ****part..
 
It's the first job I haven't done myself on the car. Had it done at local garage.

Soooo frustrated with the garage ! They've told me they've ordered a £300 clutch to fit to it Monday.,, never bloody asked them for that !

So if it IS back to front and I take it back, they will probably charge me for the stip down again and try to fit a £300 part.,, ****e !

I personally have never had a problem with Britpart stuff in the years I've worked on Landys.

They've given me the car back and I can hardly drive the bloody thing !

They're answer..... " Slip The Clutch on it all day Sunday and Bed it In !!"" WTF !!

Plus I can't get the handbrake to stay on. Button stuck, wont come out and handle just floppin. Have had to park car in gear and at an angle !! Fekkin fizzin !
 
jamesmartin said:
how many have you fitted ?
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only one and had poor time with it ,it was a friends 90 it just slipped all the time had it in out in out replaced with one from LR worked fine had problems with other britpart stuff master cylinder went back twice after less than a week each just my thoughts but yeh we thought it was in the wrong way too but no it wasn't I'm not going to put parts down if i haven't ever used them
 
BigDons said:
It's the first job I haven't done myself on the car. Had it done at local garage.

Soooo frustrated with the garage ! They've told me they've ordered a £300 clutch to fit to it Monday.,, never bloody asked them for that !

So if it IS back to front and I take it back, they will probably charge me for the stip down again and try to fit a £300 part.,, ****e !

I personally have never had a problem with Britpart stuff in the years I've worked on Landys.

They've given me the car back and I can hardly drive the bloody thing !

They're answer..... " Slip The Clutch on it all day Sunday and Bed it In !!"" WTF !!

Plus I can't get the handbrake to stay on. Button stuck, wont come out and handle just floppin. Have had to park car in gear and at an angle !! Fekkin fizzin !
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You entered into a contract with the garage to supply and fit (properly) a clutch Any faults should be rectified at their expense. Perhaps you should point this out to them. After all if you paid a dentist to remove a bad tooth and he pulled the wrong one. You wouldn't expect to have to pay him a 2nd time to remove the correct one.
 
BigDons said:
It's the first job I haven't done myself on the car. Had it done at local garage.

Soooo frustrated with the garage ! They've told me they've ordered a £300 clutch to fit to it Monday.,, never bloody asked them for that !

So if it IS back to front and I take it back, they will probably charge me for the stip down again and try to fit a £300 part.,, ****e !

I personally have never had a problem with Britpart stuff in the years I've worked on Landys.

They've given me the car back and I can hardly drive the bloody thing !

They're answer..... " Slip The Clutch on it all day Sunday and Bed it In !!"" WTF !!

Plus I can't get the handbrake to stay on. Button stuck, wont come out and handle just floppin. Have had to park car in gear and at an angle !! Fekkin fizzin !
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Sounds like a Friday afternoon job.....

A Valeo Clutch Kit (oem fitment) can be purchased for 149-00 +vat from Island 4x4, so a 300 quid clutch is taking the ****.

If they spec'ed/supplied the first clutch fitted its down to them to rectify the problem, if you supplied the clutch and they fitted it correctly but the clutch is faulty you will have to pay to have another clutch fitted.

Personally I can't see why people try to save money on some parts, clutches as they're a real pain in the arse to get to and brakes/steering for safety reasons, buy oem parts just not from the stealers.
 
redhand said:
You entered into a contract with the garage to supply and fit (properly) a clutch Any faults should be rectified at their expense. Perhaps you should point this out to them. After all if you paid a dentist to remove a bad tooth and he pulled the wrong one. You wouldn't expect to have to pay him a 2nd time to remove the correct one.
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Or pay to buy a new one if he fooked the first one up
 
General Section Sticky "crock of **** thread"

After numerous beers, have they tried bleeding it as the dragging clutch can be air in system and can be a sod to remove
 
Yes they tried bleeding it. No air in it according to them.

As regards to them fitting it the wrong way.,, they could take it apart and say.,, "noo.,, wasn't that,. nowt to do with us ! "

put it back together, charge me for fitting a £300 one, but still have the britpart in and I would be none the wiser !
 
Mine needed a new clutch, trawled the internet found what I thought was a bargain, Brit-Part complete clutch, Big mistake. Brit-Part clutch is a cheap badly made copy an absolute disgrace, I have fitted many clutches over the years to Range rovers and Discovery’s and I have to say DO NOT fit a Brit-Part clutch. Problems are slipping, poor or no gear engages because release bearing can’t reach the clutch. Buy a Borg-Beck clutch. Bleeding is very important once fitted I pressure bleed the system as it can be very difficult to clear the air.
 
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ironhorse said:
Mine needed a new clutch, trawled the internet found what I thought was a bargain, Brit-Part complete clutch, Big mistake. Brit-Part clutch is a cheap badly made copy an absolute disgrace, I have fitted many clutches over the years to Range rovers and Discovery’s and I have to say DO NOT fit a Brit-Part clutch. Problems are slipping, poor or no gear engages because release bearing can’t reach the clutch. Buy a Borg-Beck clutch. Bleeding is very important once fitted I pressure bleed the system as it can be very difficult to clear the air.
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Thankyou ironhorse i was begining to feel alone in the fact i thought britpart clutchs where ****e
 
dyte said:
Thankyou ironhorse i was begining to feel alone in the fact i thought britpart clutchs where ****e
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Pretty much every part I’ve used made by Brit-Part has failed due to poor construction; they use a name that falsely suckers you into believing it is a reliable part, as said master cylinders poor construction, distributors poor construction and cheap components, I could go on but have better things to do, but I will finish by saying one supplier I use for Landrover parts who is well known, told me he will not use the majority of major parts from Brit-Part for the reasons I have given.
 
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