Honestly though this clutch feel is not nearly as bad as these Kia forums make it seem. This was before the throttle mod I believe
so with the throttle mod the clutch actually feels extremely acceptable I have zero complaints about it, and little desire to take out that valve unless of course we were in there a ready replacing components then I might contemplate it. I would really go as far as to say it actually feels like one of the better ones and is “forgiving”.
It’s just unfortunate Kia tuned the clutch and throttle in such a way from the factory, I’m sure there was a lot of unhappy people that bought or test drove these manual transmission equipped cars and either burnt out the clutch extremely fast or was unhappy with the dead space/ lag of the throttle it really was a hot mess from the factory.
- you would have to be a master manual transmission expert to drive it correctly before the adjustment of throttle position sensor on pedal.