LiamDub

Mechanic sorted it out - it was a worn synchroniser. For a car less than 5 years and low mileage it is very disappointing - my old skoda did over 200,000 km and never a problem with the gears (or worn synchroniser). Could have been the previous owner poor driving damaged it or maybe the parts they are using nowadays in skoda are not what they used to be. As you can imagine it was not a cheap fix.

In the last month my 2015 Skoda Octavia 2.0 TDI (Manual Transmission) does not engage all the time with 4th gear. All other gears are fine but frequently (and nearly all the time - not as bad starting off but after 3 or 4 gear moves then 4th gear fails) when I try to move from 3rd to 4th or from 5th to 4th it does not engage - If I try to hold it in place as I take foot of clutch there is a grating noise and not engaging. Moving down from 5th to 4th is always worse than from 3rd to 4th? Anybody have experience of this? Did they identify the problem and solve it? My mechanic said he never seen this happen - it is usually the first/second gear that there is a problem. He said he could change the clutch and transmission (very expensive) but could not guarantee that this will solve the problem.