History first: Bought the Octavia 105bhp tdi last year with 66k on clock and came with one year Skoda dealer warranty.About one month after purchase I started having problems with crashing of gears going from 1st to 2nd and going back down 2nd into 1st. Other gear changes seemed ok. Dealer under warranty changed the gearbox oil, I was sceptical that this would cure the problem but heh, it did, and up until yesterday, the car drove fine and never had any problems going from 1st to 2nd even when rushing the change. The car now has covered 78k. Now this week I have intermittent behaviour of crashing the change from 1st to 2nd, it appears to be happening only when the engine is hot and I have been driving in city traffic with lots of gearchanges.The car is no longer under warranty.

 

 

The Cure? This is where I would be most grateful if the experts on this excellent forum can throw in a few suggestions.

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( The car still has the dmf and is only producing light judder under light load in higher gears from low revs. Was contemplating a Valeo smf conversion at some point but was waiting till the judder got a lot worse than it is just now)

 

Looking forward to reading your suggestions.

 

 

John Archer

Edinburgh

It makes me think of a leaking slave cylinder. If you ride the clutch when the change is getting crashy, do you get to a point where the car tries to move off or stall sometimes?

Will try that out next time I get the crashing of gears, thanks.