About 2 months ago I started noticing that from time to time when I would depress the clutch to start the car, it wouldn't crank. I would push my foot down a little more and it would start right up. I figured I was just getting lazy with my clutch foot. 2 months later, the only time it's easy to get the car started is when it's cold. If it's warmed up I have to push the clutch pedal as hard as I can to get the car to crank.

I looked under the dash for a pressure switch (older manual trans cars had them to let the car know that the clutch was depressed for starting) behind the clutch pedal that might have needed adjusting and found nothing. My car was going in right before the New Year last week for it's final 45K mile AudiCare service, so I figured I'd mention it to them since they see these cars all the time and maybe it was something stupid.

Dealer was very nice and bleed my clutch for free (didn't even need it since it had been bled when the EuroCode clutch was installed in March), and that didn't fix it, so they told me the next thing on the factory service manual flow chart was to replace the clutch and flywheel which they could do for the bargain price of $4900. I politely told them no thank you and went on my way thinking they were crazy.

My EuroCode Stage 3 clutch/flywheel only have about 5k miles on them and the setup is operating perfectly.

Does anyone know where the sensor is that lets the car know that the clutch is disengaged?

I found one thread on another Aud*World about this same issue but it was with a perfectly operating stock clutch that had 40K miles on it. The fix ended up being a new clutch which doesn't make any sense to me.