My brother in law has a Golf GT TDi 130 with the 6 speed gearbox and last night he lost 1st & 2nd gear!

Is there a known issue with these gearboxes or does anyone have any idea as to what might be wrong?

It's not the clutch as if I select any gear other than 1st or 2nd the clutch bites strongly and can stall the engine easily, no sign of it slipping previously either.

Just feels like there is no resistance going into 1st or 2nd, wondering if it's a linkage or possibly a selector fork in the box?

Any help or advice welcome...

 

is the car standard or remapped?

 

bog standard

 

and that known weakness is?

impressive seen as the mk6 is only just out!?

anyway, this is an 03 plate mk4 130bhp model and has coverered 95k trouble free miles so far

 

wierd

 

The gear selector on the MKIV is cable operated. I had a similar problem on my TDI leon which has the same power plant as the equic 90BHP MKIV golf. I spent a couple of hours twiddling about with the cable mechanism, and have had no reoccurance of the problem.

Just a thought....

 

thanks for the heads up