A few months ago I had dealer install new clutch on my 04 Cab. 48000 miles
Before new one went in, the old one was getting hard to press and the catch point was really far up. Probably 2-3 inches from top.
New clutch in, much lighter pedal. Night and day difference. But the catch point is no different. I informed dealer of problem and they said put some miles on it and see if it changes. I have driven manual transmission cars for the last 30yrs and I am a truck driver by trade, so I am pretty familiar with a manual trans. Never heard drive it and see before, but this also my first Porsche. So I have put 2000 miles on it and no difference.(big surprise)
Fairly level ground take offs are not an issue but get on a hill and it is another story. Car will be going back to dealer but was looking for some suggestions.
Thanks in advance.

 

Normal. You have to adapt but it should not require that much effort.

My experience with my 2002 Boxster clutch and my 2003 996 Turbo is in the case of both cars the clutch the engagement point is higher than I can recall it being with other cars.

With other cars I could sit up a bit closer to the wheel.

But with the arrival of my Boxster and my usual seating position I was having trouble getting the car away smoothly.

I forget what I said to my brother while he was in the car but he said something to the effect "Why don't you move the seat back you dummy?"

So I did.

Better. Much better.

But I had to also change my working the clutch to be less foot/ankle and more leg. But I soon adapted and working the clutch became much much better. I was able to move the car off from a dead stop on level ground or on an incline with no problem and very little clutch slippage. Believe it or not but my 2002 Boxster has almost 310K miles on it and is on its original clutch so you know the clutch doesn't get slipped much.

When I got my 2003 996 Turbo with just 10K miles on it I adapted the same seating position and technique as with the Boxster. The Turbo doesn't have but 152K miles on it but the Turbo had its tranny out at around 120K miles for a new RMS and the clutch disc had no measureable wear so I am expecting to get big miles out of the Turbo clutch.

Be sure you flush and bleed the brake fluid every 2 years and be double sure you also flush and bleed the clutch hydraulic system too. My experience is even with "just" 2.5 years on the brake/clutch fluid while braking action was not affected to any noticeable degree clutch action was to the point I was thinking the clutch needed to be replaced and along with the clutch action shifting was also affected to the point I was thinking if the new clutch didn't "fix" the shifting I could be looking at doing something with the transmission.

Thankfully a dealer SM looked up the last time I had the brake/clutch fluid flushed and bled and noticed it was over 2.5 years earlier so I had the car in for this service and afterwards the clutch once again became easy to operate smoothly and shifting resumed its hot knife through butter feel.

 

I already sit with the seat as far back as it goes. Foot/leg position isn't my problem unfortunately. If I didn't know the clutch had been done I would be thinking that from where it starts to catch that it is coming time for a new one. The pedal really does almost go to full extension before it grabs. I will suggest to them that they re-bleed system. Thanks for that suggestion.