My car bucks.

[headless]

Originally Posted by John_H

Your sales guy is probably correct except that the severity of your issue isn't normal. It sounds like headless knows the problem. I haven't experienced any feedback from the clutch anything near what you're describing.

Service call!

I forgot to mention, I run Sheffield Smarties smart car club, and a few new members have asked me about the shuddering on takeoff thing, and I have sent then to the main dealers for the clutch adjustment and all of them have come back and said it had cured it and made their cars smoother, so it is not just an isolated case, sounds as if there are quite a few smarts would benefit with the clutch relearn.
Ellis

ps, just had a thought, as you guys have only just had the smart car for a year, maybe the dealers don't know themselves that the juddering can be cured with the clutch adjustment, so it might be worth mentioning if you go to get it fixed about how it is cured in Britain, as we have had smart cars for over 10 years now

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Originally Posted by headless

I forgot to mention, I run Sheffield Smarties smart car club, and a few new members have asked me about the shuddering on takeoff thing, and I have sent then to the main dealers for the clutch adjustment and all of them have come back and said it had cured it and made their cars smoother, so it is not just an isolated case, sounds as if there are quite a few smarts would benefit with the clutch relearn.
Ellis

ps, just had a thought, as you guys have only just had the smart car for a year, maybe the dealers don't know themselves that the juddering can be cured with the clutch adjustment, so it might be worth mentioning if you go to get it fixed about how it is cured in Britain, as we have had smart cars for over 10 years now

I went by my dealer and showed them what I thought was weird. The mechanic says when I hit the brake in severe stop in go traffic (or whenever you hit the brake) the clutch disengages and what I'm feeling when I put on gas is the clutch engaging. I feeling such a shudder osilation thing because I'm constantly on and off the gas pedal starting and stopping as traffic starts to move which is exacerbating the feeling.