Aygo clutch adjustment

[newdent]

Hey, I've recently bought an Aygo (2007) and the clutch seems very high on it. The seller said the clutch was changed 3 years ago, which I took as a great sign but it turns out they did 42K in those 3 years! An oversight on my part, the previous 14 years of the was only 33K. How long does a clutch generally last on these? I assume that must have been lots of motorway driving.

Anyway, I've watched a few YouTube videos and tried adjusting a few ways and I can't seem to have any success. I'm wondering if it's too far gone? I've tried to lever the rusty arm (not sure what it's) on top of the gearbox to take tension off the cable and adjust where it attaches to the arm but it seems like it's not possible to take any tension off of that arm to rotate the connection on the end of the cable, the arm seems to be at its end of travel.

The other method I've tried is to turn the plastic threaded section a bit further back from the gearbox connection, it's possible to get a few turns on this before it locks but this just seems to take up the 'free play' before there's resistance on the pedal, so I put that back to how it was as I heard a small amount of free play is required 

Lastly, I adjusted the bolt by the pedal which changes the at rest position of the pedal but that really only gained me a few mm so was pointless.

I'm trying to figure out if the clutch has just reached the end of its life or I'm missing something. I have seen videos where the clutch cable seems a bit tighter than mine but I guess it's not impossible that mine has stretched? Any help greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[Cyker]

The Aygo manual clutch is famous for having a very high biting point; In the one I had as a courtesy car it was hard to tell if I'd lifted off the pedal it was so high  

 

[flash22]

The Aygo biting point is high, it's just a characteristic of the car

Basic clutch test - stick it in 3rd and give it a little bit of rpm, if it just revs the clutch needs adjustment/ replacement, if it stalls all is good

The early cars had an undersized clutch you were lucky to get 20-30 k out of it the later ones are 10mm bigger and that is the standard clutch size for OEM and aftermarket replacement, 60-100k should be a good life expectancy

https://www.techtips.ie/Blue-Print/clutch-replacement-toyota-aygo-citroen-c1-peugeot-107.pdf

you have already seen the clutch adjustment procedure in my other posts