If you are still having issues with the gearbox, to be honest, I would go see a gearbox specialist and get it diagnosed properly. There is no point in getting the gearbox linkages adjusted if there is an underlying issue such as clutch/flywheel problems.
I believe you said you were in Wales and there are a few specialists around so I would call them Monday and ask to take the car round to them.
I said this big job gearbox stripdown might be needed "but I hope for your sake, that it isn't" to my
dealer, 6weeks after buying it, when I dropped it off for them to look at the linkages, for the 10 days it was there/ got the courtesy car.
I was implying that if the fault wasn't the linkages, that this big job gearbox stripdown, should be done to rectify the
problem, by them. IE Without my paying, as it was within the warranty 3-months. The
dealer himself said worst case, it could conceivably need it.
But when I picked car up, I am 100% sure the gaitor (rubber gearstick sleeve) hadn't been lifted. Because as a carpenter, I just do carry wood dust on sleeves & gloves, & noticed the gaitor had the same wood dust in place when I picked car up. No way it'd still be there IF the gaitor had been lifted (I'm saying this in the belief that to tweak the linkages, you -have- to lift the gaitor 1st: maybe someone could confirm I'm correct).
So as the
problem is a continuation of what I reported to them early on, well within the warranty, the question I have, is whether reporting a continuing same
problem/ IE whatever the say they did (he gave me his word on my call to them a few days ago thst absolutely the gaitor WAS lifted, by him, before: this I know cannot be true) now at this juncture just after the warranty has expired... whether they are liable to fix it.
I know the reason he didn't lift the gaitor & tweak the linkages (even if he swears he did exactly this): it was because they'd have driven it, to try to get the Reverse/ 1st fault to manifest itself, to then go on to attempt to fix it. They'd have driven it, determined "no fault found", parked it. Left it. Put a new battery in for me, yes, but that's all that was done. I just know this to be true.
Hence asking him whilst he does the linkage tweak, which he said he'd do foc (which is decent enough I guess) in a couple of weeks or so.. that could I come & watch him do it? A) to make certain the gaitor's lifted/ linkages seen to at least, & B) to see whether it's anything I can adjust myself, in the future, at home here, on the rare occasion the fault re-appears. Which it just will. Unless the gearbox is stripped down. Which they likely won't agree to do now, post warranty which expired 10th Feb.
I can't afford to pay a
garage here, £1k to get the gearbox strip down big job done. I just can't. Besides, how am .i to know this will cure the fault? I may drive it afterwards for 2 months & all fine, but a week later the car goes in REVERSE again whilst selecting 1st. Then we're back to it likely being linkages all along. But you can't present the
problem to the
garage, because it did it once, a day before you call them up. Drive it in, & the
problem's passed.
It seems I'm in a Catch22.
