Test drove a Saab 9-5 a few days back. Really nice car. Good price, has an extensive documented service history. A/C has a leak, but I can deal with that. My only other concern was that the clutch pedal engages very close to the top of the travel. It doesn't slip or chatter or anything, it seemed to work fine, just engaged much higher than I'm used to. Car had something like 125k miles on it, original clutch. If I'm correct, that's a sign of a thinning clutch disc. Could it be anything else?
You are correct unless it's cable driven. Then it might be out of adjustment.
My guess is it's getting due for a clutch.
Hydraulic clutches often have some point of adjustment, although if the bite point is moving far out that probably means it's thinning. That said my 'rolla had the same problem when I bought it, got it adjusted and I've had no problems since.
Kind of what I figured, but just wanted to be sure. If I decide to buy it, hoping I can be real easy on the clutch and nurse it along for a little while. A lot of my commute is open country road with little shifting required.
It may just be the nature of the beast, too. Generally, a high takeup implies a reasonably well broken in
clutch. However, stepping from my first gen Neon with cable clutch into my second gen with hydraulic, I always have to re-educate my foot. My Chev pickup has a pretty high pedal (I have found that to be very common for GM products) and I've put 60k on it, towing, pushing cars into the shop, etc with no change in the takeup or bite.
I recall my 9000 Turbos having the takeup fairly high on the pedal.
When doing a clutch on these, be sure to replace the slave cylinder, as it is part of the throwout bearing, and requires trans removal to replace it.
Hi take up on cars these days isn't always a sign of a worn out clutch... It can be normal... I run into it lots with various different aftermarket clutch kits...
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