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MY15 Polo TSI Manual gearbox sticking in reverse ?
Hey All!
So I have an 8 month old Polo 66TSI (Manual) - but I've noticed in recent weeks that it seems some gears are a bit more fiddly than they were when the car was new.
In particular, reverse gear - and sometimes first gear.
Example - yesterday: Car was in garage, parked in first gear, handbrake, engine off. I jumped in, clutch in, gear into neutral, start engine, push down on gear, engage reverse - yet it didn't feel like it was going into reverse properly (you know the feeling I'm talking about when it doesn't fully slot into the gear). Back into neutral, clutch out and in again, re-try reverse gear - same thing. One more time with a little more force and with a short grind it engaged reverse. Hmm.
Second example - shops yesterday. Awkward tiny parking space - nosed in, had to reverse back to correct my angle, but found it hard to disengage reverse! It felt like reverse was stuck. Finally wrested it out, and found that first was playing hard to get. Only slightly - but the experience was less than fun.
Now I had similar issues in my old 2004 Golf before the gearbox packed itself in - but that was a decade old gearbox. My Polo is less than 1 year.
Any ideas??? Is my car just having a bad day? Humidity causing 'normal' stickyness? Or is this perceived degradation of a very new gearbox an issue? Anyone else experienced this?
So I have an 8 month old Polo 66TSI (Manual) - but I've noticed in recent weeks that it seems some gears are a bit more fiddly than they were when the car was new.
In particular, reverse gear - and sometimes first gear.
Example - yesterday: Car was in garage, parked in first gear, handbrake, engine off. I jumped in, clutch in, gear into neutral, start engine, push down on gear, engage reverse - yet it didn't feel like it was going into reverse properly (you know the feeling I'm talking about when it doesn't fully slot into the gear). Back into neutral, clutch out and in again, re-try reverse gear - same thing. One more time with a little more force and with a short grind it engaged reverse. Hmm.
Second example - shops yesterday. Awkward tiny parking space - nosed in, had to reverse back to correct my angle, but found it hard to disengage reverse! It felt like reverse was stuck. Finally wrested it out, and found that first was playing hard to get. Only slightly - but the experience was less than fun.
Now I had similar issues in my old 2004 Golf before the gearbox packed itself in - but that was a decade old gearbox. My Polo is less than 1 year.
Any ideas??? Is my car just having a bad day? Humidity causing 'normal' stickyness? Or is this perceived degradation of a very new gearbox an issue? Anyone else experienced this?
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