Hurley1611

hi all,this was not the way i wanted to introduce myself on here.
Picked up my v plate uk2000 model impreza off a regular user of the forum and have had 2 days of a pure smile on my face as this is my first impreza,but unfortunately today i encountered what i think could be a major problem.

went to a friends house to show him the car, had been out 20 minutes and was stopped at some traffic lights,i launched fairly quickly and went to change from first to second and it felt like i either missed gear,or it didnt want to go from first to second.no grinding,infact i didnt hear any noise what so ever,but seemed to have lost the gears, luckily we were only a couple of hundred yards from his drive, so managed to get it off the road for a further inspection.

now at first we could get some gears (mainly reverse and 3rd) but after a while it was like the linkage didnt wouldnt move,either backwards or forwards, and even side to side didnt feel like it did before, so decided to disconnect the linkage and see if we could move the rod on the gearbox end.

at this point i wasnt very optomistic and this proved me right as when i tried to push or pull the rod that goes into the box, it wouldnt move at all.

so my question is does anybody know what the problem could be? i know the box is going to have to come out, but if someone had an idea on what it could be that would at least point me in the right direction!!

sorry for the essay guys, just absolutely gutted at the minute

cheers Ryan