General Problems pulling off!!!

[multipla-aire]

Excuse the title but I am trying to find out what is causing my diesel Multipla to judder when I pull off in first gear. It's OK if I rev it quite high and really slowly let the clutch out but if I dont then it will stall which is, in my experience unusual for a torquey diesel.
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks

 

[T14086]

I was going to reply with a immature innuendo but start at the beginning mate,any vacuum pipes split/disconnected? (Take it clutch itself is ok)

 

[multipla-aire]

Have had a look nothing seems split and the clutch seems OK sometimes a little stiff to get it into reverse, could this really be the problem?

 

[T14086]

Does it feel like clutch slip or more fuel/electrical related.What mileage on the car/details etc

 

[multipla-aire]

The cars done 55000 miles it doesn't feel like clutch slip and doesn't happen any other time apart pulling away. Not sure about fuel/electrical problems though although would it not be apparent at other times? I don't believe that the clutch has ever been changed so is 55000 miles old, guess this makes for a likely candidate!!

 

[disgusted]

I get clutch judder in my JTD (72k miles).

Conventional wisdom suggests:

a) contaminated (by oil) clutch friction surface

b) worn clutch friction surface (but not so worn that it slips).


Having thought about this, I have noted that it rarely happens when Mrs. Disgusted (principal pilot of the JTD) is driving.

I conclude that it's my driving style at fault. I'm trying to be a little more carefull about feeding in power gently as I let the clutch in. It seems to work.

I hate manual gearboxes. If FIAT did an auto Multi, I'd buy another - they won't so I won't.

 

[Fiat Driver]

...Having thought about this, I have noted that it rarely happens when Mrs. Disgusted (principal pilot of the JTD) is driving.

Perhaps you should get Mrs Disgusted to show you how to pull off yourself

 

[sammiboo]

Is it worse when you first set off and eases off during your journey or is it constant?

 

[multipla-aire]

It's worse when I first set off and then improves some.

 

[becks]

Get it looked at ASAP! Ours has been doing the same (1st gear pulling off and also on reversing slowly) for a month or so now. It is now sitting in a garage completely seized - we reckon the diff went...
:bang:
Now there's nothing to say that the juddering was definitely the cause or a symptom, but I wouldn't want to chance it...

 

[becks]

Car is still in garage waiting for new gearbox & diff to arrive from Italy - Fiat Uk don't seem to know the meaning of customer care. (Thankfully the garage do...)

 

[Captain Creasy]

Excuse the title but I am trying to find out what is causing my diesel Multipla to judder when I pull off in first gear. It's OK if I rev it quite high and really slowly let the clutch out but if I dont then it will stall which is, in my experience unusual for a torquey diesel.
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks

So did you find out why? Mine does this occasionally if I am driving on a low tank (at keast I think that is the common denominator).