For those who may be interested, I had a gear linkage failure last week, the car had been driving perfectly and had covered about 80 miles that morning then just as I pulled away from a car park exit and shifted for 2nd gear the linkage went light, no noise or anything else untoward the stick moved down to 2nd gear position but the gearbox didn't!
The strange thing concerning this was that not only were the cables intact but there had been no deterioration in gear changing, on first inspection the AA mechanic said cables seemed to be ok but it was not possible to nudge it into neutral at the gearbox end.so not a broken cable and yet...which rather seemed to indicate an internal fault on the selectors.
It was collected and taken to the PC where the diagnosis was given as "baggy" cables, now I don't know if the lady on the service desk was having difficulty with the Technician's writing but I finally collected it this morning having had new cables fitted and gear changing is once more as normal, they had also found a minor coolant leak which has been repaired so that's to the good when they had only had the car in for ignition coil packs two weeks before, just shows how something can go from brilliant to having a fault or two!
For information, the car has the OEM short shift kit fitted and had just covered 82,290 miles when this occurred.
The strange thing concerning this was that not only were the cables intact but there had been no deterioration in gear changing, on first inspection the AA mechanic said cables seemed to be ok but it was not possible to nudge it into neutral at the gearbox end.so not a broken cable and yet...which rather seemed to indicate an internal fault on the selectors.
It was collected and taken to the PC where the diagnosis was given as "baggy" cables, now I don't know if the lady on the service desk was having difficulty with the Technician's writing but I finally collected it this morning having had new cables fitted and gear changing is once more as normal, they had also found a minor coolant leak which has been repaired so that's to the good when they had only had the car in for ignition coil packs two weeks before, just shows how something can go from brilliant to having a fault or two!
For information, the car has the OEM short shift kit fitted and had just covered 82,290 miles when this occurred.
