Just had an equiry from the owner of a 2004 Roadster, so an early one.
My Roadster was manufactured in 04, thus is one of the early ones. I've owned it since 2008 when I bought it from Bill Wykeham in Kensington with about 970 miles on the clock. It now has approx 30,000.
From early days it has had a tendency, after being driven for a while and especially when stopping, parking, reversing a lot, of sticking in gear. Simply depressing and releasing the clutch pedal does not help. One has to switch off the engine, get back into neutral and then restart. As you can imagine, this is tricky if one is on a main road when it happens. Of late the frequency of this happening has increased. I had the last service done at Williams and asked them to look into the problem (previously the car has been largely Techniques serviced but as I live in Dorset I have tired of a 350 mile round trip each time) Their best advice was to change the oil (!) which they did, but to no one's surprise it hasn't helped. I have always thought it might be clutch related?
I had a conversation with another owner recently and he mentioned that it was 'a thing' that the early 3.0s had had this trouble so I thought I would drop you a line in case you can throw any light on it, especially if that light included what MMC had found as a solution, if they ever did so before the 3.7 came along. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
So I responded by recommending the generic approach to this:
1: Change the fluid.....if no better.......
2. Change the master cylinder......if no better...........
3. Change the slave cylinder, noting that being concentric means an engine out job, so expensive.
However, the owner has been told that this was "a thing" with early Roadsters which I've never come across. Does anybody know any more???
