Hi all, I noticed some time ago that when I press the clutch pedal it makes a noticeable squeaking sound that I can also hear from the outside (when my wife’s parking the car) I sprayed the rod going into the master cylinder from inside the car with some WD40, some white grease spray, some regular grease but it still makes this very noticeable and sometimes loud sound. It’s definitely sounds like two parts sliding and rubbing and make these squeaking noise. The pedal has also some play I can press it let’s say 10% down before the rod starts pushing on the cylinder. I read a thread from @vladof a while ago where he had similar problems. The clutch also bites very high when the pedal is almost fully depressed. I tend to think that it’s always been like that since I got the car 4 years ago at just 50 000 kms but I am not that sure as I drive it every day I perhaps slowly adjusted my driving style to the changing clutch pedal behavior.

The squeak is most likley the return spring (opposite the rod operting the master cylinder). Spread some white grease liberally over the spring and associated clips. Worked for me...

Yellow Peril said:

The squeak is most likley the return spring (opposite the rod operting the master cylinder). Spread some white grease liberally over the spring and associated clips. Worked for me...

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Thanks I'll give that a try but I kinda got the feeling that it's coming from somewhere inside the engine bay.. A weird thing also it tends to start squeaking when I turn on the AC it sometimes makes no noise when it's warm..

Tried this already?

PS: pressing the pedal down only 10% before starting to push the rod is normal, I have this on both my Stilos and also had it immediately after replacing the master cylinder as well.

When I had issues with that, I would press the pedal almost half way before pushing the rod and it was moving from 10% to 50% after pressing it 50-60 times.