Happened other night, basically the car will not select reverse. Drove home from work the other night and car was fine. Came out about an hour later and no reverse. The stick just will not go in, i can put it in all other gears fine and it drives forward. I get no noise, its not been jumping out of gear, crunching or anything, just no reverse. Had a look and tried doing it manually on the gearbox but it won't have it. I'm stumped got no idea what it could be, any ideas guys?
Gearbox Problem
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Soldato
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You sure it's not just become majorly stiff?
I've driven some cars where you've really got to yank it into reverse, literally yank it hard to the side and shove it in with serious force as quickly as you can or it just will not go in.
I've driven some cars where you've really got to yank it into reverse, literally yank it hard to the side and shove it in with serious force as quickly as you can or it just will not go in.
Sounds like part of the selector mechanism has broken/jumped ship.
I'm not familiar with the Seat gear stick, but if you have a push/life mechanism that sounds a likely culprit.
You could only manually check the gearbox if you detached the selector mechanism first, did you do this??
I'm not familiar with the Seat gear stick, but if you have a push/life mechanism that sounds a likely culprit.
You could only manually check the gearbox if you detached the selector mechanism first, did you do this??
Its same style as a Golf, push down into the box, left then up into reverse. I can push it down and left, but then it stops. Its like something is stopping it going into reverse. Kae i had a mechanic look at it and he tried manually but said it won't go in, he reckons selector mechanism. Going to take it to a guy he knows who is going to take a look at it, so see what happens. My wallet is preparing itself for pain lol.