Hi everyone, Iv not been on the site much as i sold my VRS last year....gutted. Anyway im now driving a PUG 107 :auto:

Here is my problem, the gear box has always been mank, compared with my fabia but iv just put up with it. Now im struggling to get it in gear sometimes. Its usually if iv just reved the engine quite high, like when overtaking. It feels really hard to get in into gear and then when it does go in its about as smooth as a porkypines ****!

the car is coming up to three years old, and has done 26k miles. i dont drive it hard or anything. Iv never had a gear box go so would like your advise on what it could be?

Broke gear box, lack of oil, gear linkage? :confused:

Thanks in advance.

John

Possibly synchromesh mechanism worn?

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This is a low mileage for this kind of problem to occur. Is the car still under warrantee? If so, get the problem sorted or at least logged before it runs out.

From the description It sounds like the 3rd/4th gear synchroniser/fork (I assume it doesn't occur in other gears).

Does it ever jump out of gear?

Can you select these gears when the engine is off?

Do you have any oil leaking from the gearbox?

This sounds like either the clutch or the synchromesh to me as well.

Does the car ever seem to have the engine accelerate without the car gaining speed proportionately?

Something isn't right there.

Coming from PSA group cars I found their gear changes to be much smoother than the VAG ones, so if you're saying it's a lot worse and you're struggling to change gears I'd have it looked at while under 3 years.

cheers guys, all the gears can be hard to find. It never slips out of gear however. Theye is no leak from the gear box as far as i can see. It also never revs without going anywhere so wont be the clutch. it is under warrentee i think, il get it down to pug!

If it's under warranty, that's the way to go. It sounds to me like oil level, linkage adjustment, or clutch adjustment now!

cheers guys, all the gears can be hard to find. It never slips out of gear however. Theye is no leak from the gear box as far as i can see. It also never revs without going anywhere so wont be the clutch. it is under warrentee i think, il get it down to pug!

Could be the clutch not fully disengaging when you push the pedal in (ie still dragging on the flywheel).

Thanks for all your help guys, il get it down the garage.

Fairly common one on the PSA derv engines used to be worn bushes on the shifter linkage.

Since it was a solid bar or series of bars if the bushes went, the gera change went to ****.

Yep — dragging clutch or (much less likely) failing clutch are definite candidates. The easiest (cheapest) thing to do is check the adjustment, so do this first. The Haynes manual will show you where the adjustment nut is. This is important, because if you keep driving with a dragging clutch you'll chew up all the synchromesh, and then it will get expensive.

I killed the top gear synchro on my beloved 205 GRD by ignoring a dragging clutch. Five minutes work to adjust it...