Need help with Rover problem - no its not HGF!

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Seems like I signed up to these forums at an ideal time! My flatmates Rover 216 (bubble thing with 4 doors) has just wrecked its gearbox, it works going forwards but when in reverse even the slightest acceleration pops the gearstick out of gear with a "clunk".

She took it to a garage and they have said £1000 for a new gearbox fitted, all inc. This seems like a hell of a lot to me, car can only be worth 2k max!

So, is this a common failure? Would it be worth getting a second hand box from a scrappy? How hard is it to fit one?

Any help greatly appreciated :D
 
Box from a scrappy would be £50 at most i would guess, and fitting, not sure how long it would take, 4 hours perhaps, so £40 an hour. £250?

Go down to halfords and read their haynes manual for free on how to do it ;)

£1000 is a joke and a bad one at that!
 
My girlfriend has a 214 bubble, and the gearbox does the same thing. She just ignores it and holds the stick in place while reversing, its hardly a problem which is worth getting looked at.
 
lol £1000, awesome :D

I blew the gearbox in my 214 after I missed the gear. I think I bent the selector as it was stuck in 2nd.

I paid £80 for a 25,000 mile box from a Rover 25 and paid £40 to get it fitted.
 
Its a common fault on these, I have owned 2 myself and done work on a few. Its the gear linkage, get the car on ramps and spray the linkage with grease in a tin or sommat. It will be better but may still do it. Don't get ripped off for £1000

The gearbox isn't broke, just grease the linkage and learn to live with it. Mine rarely did it after it had been greased up. Hope this helps :)
 
At least you can't blame the crappy gearboxes on Rover, they are French...

I would check the gear linkage for alignment and any seized/stiff bushes first, and also engine mountings, either of which can cause this problem.
 
whatever gearboxes they put in these are atrocious! my mates rover 25 1.4 had the exact same issue.... twice on two different boxes. On a different 25 he lost 2nd gear. He is a mechanic though, so never paid more than £100 to sort and fitted the new box himself.

I think he left his reverse like that for months the second time, just held it in gear and accelarated in short pulses whilst in reverse
 
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