Clutch failure on my Scorpio-N leaves me stranded: How it was solved

Reliability is something we can’t expect from new cars also these days!

BHPian DheerajNK recently shared this with other enthusiasts.

My Scorpio-N broke down today near Dharmathala on my way from Karkala to Bangalore. My car is Z8DMT. After driving from home for around 70km in the early morning on empty roads majorly on 5th and 6th gears, I entered into some congestion on the road. After hardly 2-3 mins into this traffic in 1st and 2nd gears, suddenly felt strong burning smell and the clutch lever got stuck inside.

After a while, somehow I moved the car out of the road and called RSA. They suggested me not to drive further and initiated the towing process. I was able to engage the clutch and gears after few mins once the car cooled down but I just moved the car little away from the road and parked it.

Towing vehicle and cab arrived after more than 3 hours. Fortunately I was alone and my family wasn’t with me. Now my car has been towed to Mangalore SC but today being a holiday and tomorrow also being Bakrid holiday ( not sure ) I think my car will be attended on Tuesday.

My car has run only 13k kms & 1 year old and mainly used on highways as I have another car for city use. It was really disappointing to see the car breakdown with clutch issue with such less usage and now I need to see how Mahindra will handle this.

Reliability is something we can’t expect from new cars also these days!

Update

The car was in the service center since Sunday & they have delivered it today after replacing the clutch kit, master cylinder & slave cylinder under warranty. However, they have not been able to give me a root cause on why this issue occurred at the the first place.

I will travel to Mangalore to get the car back but to be honest now this thing is stuck in my head and I am sure I will not be confident again until drive the car for a few hundred kilometers.

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