KeithJR

A local garage took it out for a spin and couldnt fault it. So I hope to drive back to Bristol Friday, and its booked in to a Bristol garage on 24th for a thorough checkover. Driving around today and no nasty surprises.

The clutch feels no different now to all the 5 years that I have owned the car. How does that explain the intermittency? Most of the time the car drives fine. Could it be something out of kilter with the gear change linkage? Keith

Should have said its six speed manual transmission, petrol engine.

Worrying symptoms randomly occuring when attempting to change gear. Sometimes it feels like it wont come out of gear, it seems jammed. After a struggle it relents, so I have been able to complete my journey. Other times when changing up it makes horrible grinding noises as I attempt to pass the neutral position. On another occasion I was trying to check I was in neutral by rocking gear knob left/right as you do, but it seemed very stiff and felt most odd. This is intermittent, I can drive miles without noticing anything wrong, the car drives just fine with no odd gearbox noises. I have had the car 5 years, now at 48k miles. Anyone know what the trouble likely is? I am currently on hols in Cornwall and hoping to get home before I get it checked over ☹️

Got the car back, all fixed. 😃 After the new Lambda sensor was fitted, the emissions were still failing. Then some software updates were applied and emissions were all good. So maybe I have been driving around since the last mot with problems that were masked. Thankfully the catalytic converter was not affected by all this.

The local garage I just took my car to for mot tell me that its failed Fast Idle Test CO reading way over the top @46k miles, also the Lamda sensor not showing any output. As this would normally show up as a fault (none showing on dash), they asked me has the software been tweaked to mask the lamda sensor fault. As far as I know the answer to that is no. The history behind this is that my previous mot at another garage initially showed the same fault, but I ended up with a pass and all emission shown ok. Dont know how they got from fail to pass. It all sounds dodgy to the suspicious mind. My question is, is it possible to mask out a lamda fault in this way? The garage where the car is now are now offering to reflash the software to std spec and fit a new lamda sensor hoping to get a pass, but say that the cat. might be in trouble due to running around rich The garage seem honest enough. Just wondered if what they are saying sounds reasonable? Worried🥺