I know this has been covered before, but I wanted to log my experiences start to finish in it's own thread perhaps to help someone in the future diagnose their issue, as the other threads are 8-10 years old, and the symptoms of each instance are not exactly the same to this one.
First things first, the car is a 2006 GS with 29k miles. It got a full clutch job with Hill Engineering T\O bearing, complete with tow to Maserati for F1 flush and PIS setting on 8/8/2017 at 28k miles. I've had this car for about 2 months now, and have put about 500 miles total on it. It also has the FD DBW, and is always driven in manual sport mode.
When I first got the car, I noticed that leaving from a stop, the more gas you give it, the clutch slips. The only way to get a good, minimal slip, takeoff is to blip the throttle and accelerate smoothly and very modestly until it's fully in gear. I made another thread "launching the F1 gearbox" or something to that effect, because I thought I was missing a trick to get it to launch more aggressively without slipping. I've since then begun to suspect that this may not be normal operation. It is worth noting that once the car is going, especially at high demand, the shifts are
Within the first 50 miles of driving the car, the second issue popped up, the transmission when shifting from 2nd to 3rd gear, would skip 3rd and go straight to 4th. After experimenting on the road with throttle demands while shifting, speeds, etc, I parked the car, and cut the battery while having lunch. After an hour or so, I fired everything back up, all was well, and never experienced the issue ever again.
11/19/18 Last night, 500 or so miles later, as I was driving home, I floored it in second, and the car seemed to have just the slightest reduction in power, and a faint smell of clutch afterward. The smell was so faint that I wrote it off as another vehicle, or just in my head because I felt like the car should have accelerated differently. 2 minutes later, it was parked in my garage, and I even went out after 5 minutes with the door closed to see if I could detect clutch smell which I couldn't.
11/20/18 This morning, leaving for work, started the car, backed out of the garage, everything seemed to be normal. About a mile into my 5 mile commute, the CC Failure light came on accompanied by beeps. There were no symptoms whatsoever, the car shifts normally. Stupidly, I thought it was the trunk indicator, so I completed my journey to find the trunk closed, and realized what the light actually was. It is worth noting, I did rag on the car once again in second, and had similar results to the previous night, the faintest smell of clutch.
I will continue to update the original post of this thread as well as the body as things develop in order to make this easier for future researchers. Any and all advice is welcomed and appreciated, thanks everyone.
First things first, the car is a 2006 GS with 29k miles. It got a full clutch job with Hill Engineering T\O bearing, complete with tow to Maserati for F1 flush and PIS setting on 8/8/2017 at 28k miles. I've had this car for about 2 months now, and have put about 500 miles total on it. It also has the FD DBW, and is always driven in manual sport mode.
When I first got the car, I noticed that leaving from a stop, the more gas you give it, the clutch slips. The only way to get a good, minimal slip, takeoff is to blip the throttle and accelerate smoothly and very modestly until it's fully in gear. I made another thread "launching the F1 gearbox" or something to that effect, because I thought I was missing a trick to get it to launch more aggressively without slipping. I've since then begun to suspect that this may not be normal operation. It is worth noting that once the car is going, especially at high demand, the shifts are
Within the first 50 miles of driving the car, the second issue popped up, the transmission when shifting from 2nd to 3rd gear, would skip 3rd and go straight to 4th. After experimenting on the road with throttle demands while shifting, speeds, etc, I parked the car, and cut the battery while having lunch. After an hour or so, I fired everything back up, all was well, and never experienced the issue ever again.
11/19/18 Last night, 500 or so miles later, as I was driving home, I floored it in second, and the car seemed to have just the slightest reduction in power, and a faint smell of clutch afterward. The smell was so faint that I wrote it off as another vehicle, or just in my head because I felt like the car should have accelerated differently. 2 minutes later, it was parked in my garage, and I even went out after 5 minutes with the door closed to see if I could detect clutch smell which I couldn't.
11/20/18 This morning, leaving for work, started the car, backed out of the garage, everything seemed to be normal. About a mile into my 5 mile commute, the CC Failure light came on accompanied by beeps. There were no symptoms whatsoever, the car shifts normally. Stupidly, I thought it was the trunk indicator, so I completed my journey to find the trunk closed, and realized what the light actually was. It is worth noting, I did rag on the car once again in second, and had similar results to the previous night, the faintest smell of clutch.
I will continue to update the original post of this thread as well as the body as things develop in order to make this easier for future researchers. Any and all advice is welcomed and appreciated, thanks everyone.
