Clutch has to be in to the floor for car to turn over?

I picked up a 2000 911 carrea s last week. It has a new clutch put in a few months ago. The clutch seems a bit odd the more I drive it. The car sometimes does not want to turn over unless the clutch is jammed to the floor. Any ideas? Thanks, Ray

Yup. Sometimes the floormat gets caught under the clutch. Make sure it's locked to the carpet.

Not in my experience. When I want to warm it up, I simply open the door, knock it out of gear and turn the key while leaning in through the open driver's door.(Handbrake is still engaged!) Something appears to be wrong me thinks. Jason

Yea, I think its less a carpet issue and more of a clutch issue. My previous Porsches never did this to me.

[QUOTE=munro86]Not in my experience. When I want to warm it up, I simply open the door, knock it out of gear and turn the key while leaning in through the open driver's door.(Handbrake is still engaged!) Something appears to be wrong me thinks. Jason[/QUOTE I believe that US cars have the "neutral switch" on the clutch pedal linkage that requires the transmission to be de-clutched for the starter to engage. I've heard that this is not so on ROW cars. It's a CYA liability issue. Cheers,

Clutch must be engaged here in the US. Either a faulty switch about to go or the mat preventing it from depressing fully.

I'm in Aus and I've heard about that de-clutch in requirement. BTW, what are CYA issue's? Acronym for? -Jason

CYA = Cover Your ***. Manufacturers (not just automakers) get sued by people who misuse or don't use products in the manner in which they were intended to be used. a few years back a woman went through the drive through window at McDonald�s Hamburger chain and got a cup of coffee. She placed it between her legs and the top came off and spilled in her lap. She received (if I remember correctly) 1st degree burns on the inside of her thighs. She sued and won! Now all of the lids used at McDonalds, and many other restaurants, have "Hot Coffee" or some other CYA phrase stamped on them to help limit their liability from idiots like this woman.

My '03 C4S needs to have the clutch fully depressed to start also. Even if it is just a few inches off the floor, it won't start.

my o3 c4s ditto.

Gota911 your not even close on what the facts where on the McDonalds coffee case. It was 3rd degree burns to the genitalia and leg, requiring multiple surgical procedures and skin grafts. With McDonalds admitting that the coffee at the drive in window is at a temperature above that fit for human consumption. That it was their marketing opinion that people did not drink the cofee for some time and would still want it hot. So instead of using a palatble temperature and a better designed cup and lid to keep the coffee hot they served at a temperature that it could not even be consumed at. The award was also severly reduced by the appellate courts. This has nothing do to with the idiots that don't know how to start a manual car or the difference of the brake and gas pedal (as in the audi cases).

Or, the two drunk college kids that thought they would trim some hedges by using a lawnmower held up off the ground by grasping the mower bottom with their fingers protruding to the inside of the mower deck. Guess what...severed fingers...but NO sticker warning them not to...and now we've got a sticker on the deck. CYA.

I personally think having to have the clutch pressed in to start is a good safety feature. However, we here in the US are **** when it comes to warnings. the warning on the package for the new Poly Belt I hust biught says "BE CERTAIN THAT THE ENGINE AND FAN ARE NOT OPERATING BEFORE SERVICE". I assume there must have been an instance where someone tried to put on a belt with the engine running.

The little kill switch is right on the floor and only sticks up a little so you really have to make sure to push the clutch to the floor. 2000 Carrera S? huh?

Yea, 2000 S, Did not knwo they even made an s in 2000. But sure enough even the Carfax it shows up an S.

Move to the head of the class JB. It was also a brilliant piece of litigation based on simple negligence if I recall. What I don't recall was whether it was mitigated by her contribution to the injury.

Wouldn't placing the cup between your legs be contributory?

Does anyone know if this clutch "kill-switch" is adjustable? It seems like I have to push the clutch farther into the floor to be able to start the car. I'm afraid I'll soon have to cut a hole in the floor to get the clutch pedal far enough down to engage the starter. Scott '99 C4

I love it when I drive state-side and read that "Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear" etching. - W.T.F. !!!! Mind you we are going the same way here. - Everything you now buy from the supermarket warns you it 'may contain nuts' Worlds gone mad !

They didn't make a Carrera S during the 996 model run. It's either a Carrera [2 wheel drive] or a Carrera 4 [4 wheel drive] or a Carrera 4S [4WD with turbo goodies (wide body, front bumper, brakes, suspension)]. The 993 model run had the Carrera S [widebody Carrera 2] and now the 997 does as well, but there is no such thing as a 996 Carrera S, FWIW.