"Philip Thompson" wrote in news:3f4f1ec6$0$201$ snipped-for-privacy@lovejoy.zen.co.uk:
Hello
> My daughter has a ceicento sporting W reg 35K miles.
> Getting into fifth gear has become a problem.
> You have to lift the reverse gear ring on the gearstick so that you
> can get across into fifth.
> I assume that the cables have gone out of adjustment so question is
> what is the procedure for gear cable adjustment.
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> Thanks for any help
> Regards
> Philip
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Hmmm.. Sounds more like the problem is with the gearstick. My Seicento Sporting is older, but if you undo the velcro holding the fake leather gearstick gaitor you can just lift it up and it pops out of the central trim. This will allow you to see if something is catching. This is all from memory so could be wrong, but as far as I recall all the "lifting bit" on the gearleaver does is allow the lever to move beyond a lip that prevents you accidentally selecting reverse when you shouldn't.
It's difficult to explain via a newsgroup, but all I'm trying to say is that I think it's going to be a fairly simple problem related to the gearlever rather than anything complicated!
Hope that makes some sense?!!
Pete