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Yes going in different gears before might help, making sure the revs are right down to idle especially for reverse, sometimes letting the car roll forward or back a very small amount can help for first.  Pushing the clutch down twice before selecting gear might help too, bit hit and miss if i's "off cog".   Probably not a different grade but wider grade and better quality oil might help when the gearbox is very cold or warm/hot - but these may be very marginal differences if your existing gear oil is at correct level and good condition.   Any change in gearbox oil you notice will be pure placebo, any mechanical engineer will tell you this and they are never wrong, as they will always tell you. 😄  They are why travelling Encyclopaedia salesmen went out of business, if you know the old joke.   Tony,  I change the gearbox oil on my wife's 2015 Fabia at 5 1/2 years old and 38k-miles and she said she did notice the difference and we've been together far too many decades for her to say anything just to please me.  If I was you I'd go for something very good like Millers EE Performance MTF 75W "Fully synthetic gear oil with ester technology".  It will protect more and for longer.  Look for it selling at lower price somewhere.  As the box appears to have a 1.1 litre refill you could either go for one 1-litre bottle as residue oil is always left in the box, or go for two 1-litre bottles and use some of the second botte (warmed in water or left out in the sun on a warm day on warm tarmac or concreate) as a  good rinse-flush after the last drops of existing oil has drained.  I found the gearbox overfilled I presumed from factory so if yours is the same with plenty left in a second bottle you could if you want to and wanted to go to the bother overfill again but I'd not bother, perhaps the overfill makes selecting gears more difficult.  🤣   Millers EE Performance MTF 75W "Fully synthetic gear oil with ester technology" - https://www.millersoils.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/8327.pdf   If you do an oil change get the gear oil warm/hot before draining, leave to drain to drops, warm flush-rinse oil if you want, always check you can fully remove the fill plug before you remove the drain plug for obvious reasons.  But like forgetting to put the engine oil drain plug back in and torqued before putting fresh oi in these mistakes do happen.  On my wife's Fabia the fill and drain plugs were close to each other in position of both depth and proximity.  The fill plug was a PITA to get at with the tools I had available.  I don't have a pressure filler so I used an always very relucent "glamorous assistant" to till the gearbox from the engine bay using a funnel and garden hose off-cut whilst I laid under the car making sure the 1/2" pipe stayed in the filler hole and to shout stop when the oil started coming out.  I also have to take the plastic under-shield off and put it back on which is always a PITA thing for me, I am always a very reluctant "mechanic" on my cars or this VW product (simple jobs on neighbour's cars a lot less so).      Whether you do an oil change or not let us know how you get on.  

Hi all.  For a few months the ABS warning light has been coming on intermittently; when not on, the ABS works.  When on, doesn't etc.  Thought it might be a sensor.   Took it to a local, reputable garage today who didn't do any visual checks but scanned it and yielded:-   1.01276 ABS hydraulic pump - electrical fault in circuit   I asked if sensors and wiring etc had been checked and was told no, as 'where do you start'.   Only option was a new ABS computer module at £1300, which is more than the car value.   Car by the way is 1.9 TDI Mark 2.   So... is it effectively a slow write-off (seven months left on MOT) or is there hope?

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