Clutch temperature high

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BritzyLad
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Post by BritzyLad »

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a little advice.

Shortly after I bought my Grandland 1.5d, my wife took it to work for the first time. While she was traveling back, she got stuck in stop/start traffic, and the car started giving a warning that the clutch temperature was high (clutch temperature high, limit use of the clutch pedal). Naturally, I accused her of riding the clutch, and that was that.

Today, I drove the car to work and stopped off to grab something before going in. I left the car running for the use of the aircon (in neutral with the handbrake on). Once I finished, I continued to drive in, and the same warning reared its head again. This time, I know I wasn't riding the clutch...

The car has done 25,000 miles, and the clutch doesn't feel as if it's slipping, and there is definitely no smell of burning or anything.

ficko
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Post by ficko »

Hey BritzyLad! Did you manage to solve this issue and find the root cause?
I am having the very same warning but I receive mine only when shifting into 6th gear while driving above 100km/h
scotspie501
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Post by scotspie501 »

my wife had the same warining did you get any further with your question
AdrianC
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Post by AdrianC »

Hi all,
I have a 2021 elite nav 1.2 petrol with 38k miles.

I have had the car serviced and scanned to see if anything could be learned, as I have that dreaded “clutch temp, limit use” warning appearing. No related error codes.

I have noticed it only appears in 6th gear? So I had the clutch & flywheel relearn process performed to see if it would clear it? No luck.

As I understand it, the car imagines clutch slip if the ratios between road speed, wheel speed, gear ratio etc don’t add up. There’s probably a lot of other parameters involved, I haven’t yet seen a good (full) explanation or a possible cure. Anyone?

When it comes on, usually after about 1 minute of 6th gear driving, I believe it also triggers an engine fan to operate.

It resets when the ignition is turned off. So I get the chime and warning for the whole journey unless I avoid 6th gear.
AdrianC
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Post by AdrianC »

AdrianC wrote: Tue Dec 24, 2024 1:49 pm Hi all,
I have a 2021 elite nav 1.2 petrol with 38k miles.

I have had the car serviced and scanned to see if anything could be learned, as I have that dreaded “clutch temp, limit use” warning appearing. No related error codes.

I have noticed it only appears in 6th gear? So I had the clutch & flywheel relearn process performed to see if it would clear it? No luck.

As I understand it, the car imagines clutch slip if the ratios between road speed, wheel speed, gear ratio etc don’t add up. There’s probably a lot of other parameters involved, I haven’t yet seen a good (full) explanation or a possible cure. Anyone?

When it comes on, usually after about 1 minute of 6th gear driving, I believe it also triggers an engine fan to operate.

It resets when the ignition is turned off. So I get the chime and warning for the whole journey unless I avoid 6th gear.
BritzyLad wrote: Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:53 pm Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a little advice.

Shortly after I bought my Grandland 1.5d, my wife took it to work for the first time. While she was traveling back, she got stuck in stop/start traffic, and the car started giving a warning that the clutch temperature was high (clutch temperature high, limit use of the clutch pedal). Naturally, I accused her of riding the clutch, and that was that.

Today, I drove the car to work and stopped off to grab something before going in. I left the car running for the use of the aircon (in neutral with the handbrake on). Once I finished, I continued to drive in, and the same warning reared its head again. This time, I know I wasn't riding the clutch...

The car has done 25,000 miles, and the clutch doesn't feel as if it's slipping, and there is definitely no smell of burning or anything.
I have now determined that if the warning is triggered, it will reset after a period of time whilst not using 6th gear. I tried this a number of times and the time to reset ranged from 2m 30s to 1m 30s.

This leads me to believe that the driving data for 6th gear is bad and that when it gets overwritten it resets the condition.

Does anyone know where this data is stored (which module) so that I can try a reset or module replacement to see if this cures the warning trigger?
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