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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: arran.concept on 11 June 2013, 00:12

Title: Struggling to find 1st & reverse??
Post by: arran.concept on 11 June 2013, 00:12

Help !! Can anyone tell me the fix for this problem I've having, it's really annoying me! Is it the linkages you reckon? Or what :(:( really embarrassing having to push car out of parking spaces lol cos I can't find reverse haha

Title: Re: Struggling to find 1st & reverse??
Post by: Leroy on 11 June 2013, 10:16

My valver couldn't find 1st or reverse when i picked it up and i thought i needed a new one/reconditioned, turned out it just needed linkages sorting out. But thats a different gearbox to the 8v.

Title: Re: Struggling to find 1st & reverse??
Post by: steve5624 on 19 July 2013, 03:01

Quote from: arran.concept on 11 June 2013, 00:12

Help !! Can anyone tell me the fix for this problem I've having, it's really annoying me! Is it the linkages you reckon? Or what :(:( really embarrassing having to push car out of parking spaces lol cos I can't find reverse haha

Possibly gear selector shaft and bearing worn

Title: Re: Struggling to find 1st & reverse??
Post by: boneybradley on 19 July 2013, 13:09

try checking this thread

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=180447.0 (http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=180447.0)

yours will be an 020 box

Title: Re: Struggling to find 1st & reverse??
Post by: Adezmk3 on 22 July 2013, 00:17

I am fairly certain you just need to adjust or repair your linkage. This happened on an old 8v of mine. Very easy to do, 1 spanner in the haynes manual probably lol, although changing the ball joint at the bottom of the gear stick looked like a mare to change so I didn't bother with changing that.