Indicator self cancel and clutch bite point
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:42 pm
Hi All, newbie here. Just bought a 2000/V 1.0 Envoy as my son's first car. Genuine 49k miles (big folder of service bills and every MOT showing gradual increase in miles), completely original, all seems in good order, drives really well and doesn't feel nearly as slow as I thought it would. Only two issues, both fairly minor:
1) The indicators don't self cancel (both ways) - is this a common fault? Is there an easy fix? Its the basic steering wheel with no airbag so hopefully shouldn't be any trouble taking it off and taking a look for broken bits inside but any advice would be welcome.
2) The clutch biting point is pretty low, only a couple of cm off the floor. Also the gearbox feels a bit notchy (although seemed to improve when warmed up). I'm guessing that as its a cable clutch it should be a simple matter of turning a nut somewhere to adjust the bite point and this may help the gearchange as more certain to have the clutch fully disengaged! (not discounting pilot error!) I have a couple of bottles of Amsoil fully synth gearbox oil sat in my garage that I won in a competition in another forum but never used - anyone found the gearboxes get smoother with some nice new synthetic oil? How easy/hard is it to change the gearbox oil?
Any general advice on the car would be welcome but so far I think I've got a good buy.
Thanks.
1) The indicators don't self cancel (both ways) - is this a common fault? Is there an easy fix? Its the basic steering wheel with no airbag so hopefully shouldn't be any trouble taking it off and taking a look for broken bits inside but any advice would be welcome.
2) The clutch biting point is pretty low, only a couple of cm off the floor. Also the gearbox feels a bit notchy (although seemed to improve when warmed up). I'm guessing that as its a cable clutch it should be a simple matter of turning a nut somewhere to adjust the bite point and this may help the gearchange as more certain to have the clutch fully disengaged! (not discounting pilot error!) I have a couple of bottles of Amsoil fully synth gearbox oil sat in my garage that I won in a competition in another forum but never used - anyone found the gearboxes get smoother with some nice new synthetic oil? How easy/hard is it to change the gearbox oil?
Any general advice on the car would be welcome but so far I think I've got a good buy.
Thanks.