Good morning beautiful people,

I am a poor university student who needed a car to travel around and bought a 2016 volkswagen GTI recently. All servicing done etc without any issues flagged and adequate logbook. Drove well, no issues over the last few weeks.

I'm not sure if...

Alright so first off I'm new here and I'm no car expert so if I'm talking rubbish at any point then do say!

Yesterday while driving around I stopped at a set of lights. When I went to pull away I found out that I had no gears at all. I could literally do a full circle with the...

It seems that the rubber grip on my T5 has given up and split to the point of being unuseable.

And while the workshop manual shows that the gear shift breaks down into separate components, I've found out from the local dealership that they don't sell just a replacement grip.
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