New to the Forum here and I don't really see a place for technical questions to be posted so I'll post it here with a brief intro. We have a 2012 Fiat 500 Pop, manual transmission, 102,000 miles. Love the car and it has been pretty good. Today without warning the clutch will not disengage, I noticed the pedal effort seemed to go up when this happened. Managed to get the car home and into my shop. Removed the battery and the battery box retaining bolts enough so I could lift the box up and verify mechanical operation of the external clutch linkage. This car was subject to the recall for fatigue of the clutch pressure plate diaphragm and that recall was done. However, not until the car had over 70,000 miles on it because it was an early car (2011 purchase) and the recall did not occur until well into 2016. I have a call into the Fiat dealer who did the recall, but the service manager who I spoke with had been there just two weeks and said he would have his superior call me back, which has not happened. Obviously will not know until further diagnostics are complete, but if the pressure plate has failed, has anyone else had this happen after the recall was conducted on their car. And more importantly, were they able to get Fiat to cover the damage? The fact that 70K worth of use occurred before the correction was made tells me that significant fatigue could have already occurred. The recall did nothing to correct that, only limiting the clutch travel after that time. I'm a mechanical engineer and I know full well that the fatigue cannot be undone, only added to, and even with lesser stress levels it's still cumulative.

Hello.

It is certainly not a commonly reported failure..

So are you saying it has lost drive?
Or cannot be disengaged??

Charlie

Will not disengage. So in my experience this meaning the pressure plate has failed or perhaps (but dislikely) the clutch plate facing has disbonded. No abnormal noise at all. Why would there have been a recall on clutch pressure plate fatigue if this was not a recurring issue? It's so difficult to get to the truth on these things but I intend to do so, and help from these forums would be appreciated. Thanks,

gephet