Can anyone advise? Intermittently I suddenly find I can't change gear or get into gear - there is enormous resistance to the gear change. I have forced it - and then it is often OK. The only common factor seems to be it happens after a period of slow driving with lots of gear changes - but it still doesn't explain why the problem can suddenly go away - one or two gear changes are alomst impossible, then it's OK. It came to a head on Saturday. I was in a slow moving queue for 45 minutes, then suddenly I couldn't get into gear. With a big sffort, trying everything, it went into reverse - then trying to get out of reverse the gear lever popped out of its housing. I was in a contraflow and caused a massive back-up of traffic. When the breakdown vehicle came, the guy put the gear lever back, ands the car has been fine. But of course it had cooled down. The garage at the last service thought that adjusting the gear linkage would solve the problem. But obviously not. It is going back in - but when I take the car in there will be no problem, because the engine will be cold - and even if I drive it for an hour with lots of gear changes, I don't think that will guarantee the problem happening. Any ideas, anyone? It's an Astra diesel 1.7 LS DTI ECO 4 2002.
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17 years ago