sorry about the name, couldn't resist.

after having the new gearbox in the car reverse is sometimes very stiff to engage, even taking 3 or 4 attempts at times. is this normal for a new box or is something set up wrong?

A few people have said the box in the Octy vrs can be a bit tight until approx. 5k miles have been covered.

all the other gears are fine though, admitidly 1st is sometimes a bit stiff but normally fine. reverse is generally stiff though and some times so bad that my gf can't get it into gear at all without ramdomly selecting other gears first

I occasionally have to have a couple of goes at getting into reverse, and first can be a bit sticky too, but it is not serious enought to warrant being investigated. As you will know, the 4X4 has a different gearbox to the vRS.

Mine, although different (thankfully ) to the 4x4 has improved massively with miles.

Mine, although different (thankfully ) to the 4x4 has improved massively with miles.

:offtopic: This thread is about the 4X4 gearbox. If the rot isn't stopped here and now we will have Furbie owners popping up too to tell us their gearboxes do this, that and the other. :grumpy:

easy there fellah, touchy subject??

and the 4x4 gearbox isn't that different to the vrs one just a slightly different case to accomodate the transfer box and prop, or so i was told by mr gear box man. he said they all have the same internalls, O2J is it?