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Title: urgent
Post by: bear on August 03, 2007, 20:41:12 PM

Hi I am in Berlin and my gearbox is acting up !!!! well it got harder and harder to get it into first gear and now I have to put in reverse to get it
into first and I have no reverse !!! I can shift into 2nd with some difficulty
and 3r 4th and 5th is fine.
Anybody on the forum that is good with vw passats ? I wonder is it
the shiftlinkage or thr gearbox that is acting up ?

Title: urgent
Post by: Binary Shadow on August 03, 2007, 20:44:41 PM

sounds more likely to be the linkage than anything else to me

edit: or maybe clutch not fully disengaging

Title: urgent
Post by: bear on August 03, 2007, 21:00:17 PM

Quote from: Binary Shadowsounds more likely to be the linkage than anything else to me

edit: or maybe clutch not fully disengaging

The clutch is fine (I thought that it was the clutch at first when the 1st gear started to be hard get, it went to 3rd all the time)

I really hope it is the linkage as I might be able to fix it myself out on the
hotel parking lot.

The shops are closed as it is weekend :( We were planning to go to going to Prauge tomorrow and if it is the linkage I might dare continue
to drive even if it is a bitch not having reverse and maybe find a shop come monday.

Title: Re:urgent
Post by: Beaker on August 03, 2007, 21:29:05 PM

You may be able to bodge it up with a tiewrap or similar if its a linkage, or a small nut and bolt.

Title: urgent
Post by: bear on August 03, 2007, 21:33:17 PM

I hope so, I will go up early in the morning and have look
wish me luck.

Title: urgent
Post by: knighty on August 03, 2007, 21:37:09 PM

sounds like the linkage to me...

or maybe an engine/gearbox mounting..... (in that the position of the gearbox relative to the gearstick might have changed)

Title: urgent
Post by: bear on August 03, 2007, 21:46:06 PM

Quote from: knightysounds like the linkage to me...

or maybe an engine/gearbox mounting..... (in that the position of the gearbox relative to the gearstick might have changed)

I don´t think so shouldn´t I have felt if it was loose ?

Title: Re:urgent
Post by: Rivkid on August 03, 2007, 23:32:13 PM

I know nothing about cars so cant help at all - but I really hope you fix it man that sucks.

Title: urgent
Post by: knighty on August 05, 2007, 00:09:22 AM

Quote from: bear
Quote from: knightysounds like the linkage to me...
or maybe an engine/gearbox mounting..... (in that the position of the gearbox relative to the gearstick might have changed)
I don´t think so shouldn´t I have felt if it was loose ?

mmm, soemtimes you do, soemtimes you dont !

if the gearstick moves more then normal when youre pulling away, then its a engine or gearbox mounting.... if not then theyre probably ok :)

Title: Re:urgent
Post by: bear on August 08, 2007, 13:29:02 PM

It was a simple linkageproblem :D I have been in cz for a while now and am going home tomorrow germany was good and nice friendly helpsome people
but expensive cz is much cheaper have beautiful lanscape in the north diffcult
with language though older people know some german and younger some english but mostly poorly so I am pointing and gesticulating much :)

Title: Re:urgent
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on August 08, 2007, 13:46:31 PM

Im glad you got it fixed and were able to enjoy the rest of your trip :)

Title: urgent
Post by: bear on August 10, 2007, 17:30:18 PM

Thanx :) CZ was great to bad we had spend much of our money to find places to sleep in expensive germany (prices like in sweden) CZ most things about the third of the price
well not hardware like axes, chainsaws etc. which must be a bitch for people living there.

Title: Re:urgent
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on August 10, 2007, 17:43:30 PM

When Im holidaying the first thing I check out is the chainsaw and axe prices of the local area. Just in case.

Groovy. 8)

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