Hi Guys.

 

Just got my Octavia 1.9tdi glx and at the moment I am not sure about it. I like the look of the car and the size of if but a few problems have come to my attention. In the  first week my door release cable broke and a few days later the back window regulator packed in and the window fell inside the door. The most annoying is the gear change it is really hard to get in first gear and I have  problems downshiftng also when the car has been running a while. The clutch feels fine. The car  has only done 116,000 miles and has  a really good  service history. I have looked on on here and members seem to say about changing the gearbox oil and adjust the gear linkage does anyone have any good advice on how to do the gear linkage as  the set up looks different on a mk 1 to later models. 

 

There are videos on youtube on how to set the gear linkage up on Golf mkiv which is the same IIRC.

It looks like a different setup to the one fitted to my vRS, so the video wont help, I wonder if it's different due to the age of the car or are diesels different.

There are videos on youtube on how to set the gear linkage up on Golf mkiv which is the same IIRC.

Hi could you send me a link to these videos as I cant find them.

 

Best Regards.

 

James.

It looks like a different setup to the one fitted to my vRS, so the video wont help, I wonder if it's different due to the age of the car or are diesels different.

Thanks for trying to help this issue I would really appreciate any help possible for me to sort this out.

I think I might have found a guide, can't tell 100% from the pictures though.

 

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=132747.0

I think I might have found a guide, can't tell 100% from the pictures though.

 

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=132747.0

Thanks mate I will take a look.