I'm a bit of an imposter on this group as my DIY car maintenance days are long since gone. However there may be someone out there who can advise me. Yesterday I was driving our X reg Fiesta when suddenly I was unable to get all the gears. There was no warning and no crunching sounds or anything like that. I stopped at some lights and when I pulled away I had all the gears again. Shortly after I couldn't go from 3rd to 2nd. I drove to the local Ford dealers who were very helpful. They put it on a ramp and said that the linkage was fine. They suggested that a small piece of metal was intermittently stopping the gear changing mechanism. They suggested an expensive gearbox strip-down. Today I have driven the car with no gear changing problems. Has anyone any experience of similar problems and can anyone give any advice? Many thanks to anyone who can help.
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15 years ago