Hi all,

Just bought a MkIII Octavia vRS and love it. Got a permanent grin on my face! The only issue I've had is on about 5 occasions I've gone to put it in 1st gear as I pull away and its clunked into reverse!! As yet no accident but have nearly reversed into a wall and/or other cars!!

Is it just me or do others have this issue?

I thought you have to depress the gear stick to get it to go into reverse? (Can't remember without actually doing it) Therefore it shouldn't just clunk into reverse.

 

Or are you talking about DSG?

Edited 4 May, 201610 yr by JamesVRSmk3

It appears to have happened on other cars too - have a read:

 

www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/379724-vrs-gearbox-issues/

Surely just a matter of getting used to a different setup from your previous car?

I had similar problem but other way round, aiming for reverse but getting first to my surprise. Sometimes I'd even convinced the Amundsen screen it was in reverse as the parking display came up but it was actually in first. Haven't thought about it for ages until I saw this thread and I'm on 30,000 miles now.

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Cheers for the answers guys - I thought it may just me getting used to a new car but as its happened approx 5 times I'm not so sure!!

 

Yes, you do have to depress the stick to get into reverse but its still finding its way in there! I'm just gonna have to be more careful for the time being and see if its me or the car. Trouble is you put it into 1st without thinking, then when you suddenly reverse or notice out of the corner of your eye that the reversing pilot (or whatever its called) appears on the screen you panic and quickly slot it into first and you don't notice whats caused it!!

 

I will report back.........................

I recently had mine adjusted under warranty for something similar, and it's ok now. Used to stay in reverse when switching from reverse to first, despite the stick being in first; also felt a little lose in some gears and notchy to select.

It's not supposed to go into reverse easily, or not by mistake anyway. So you either have a very heavy hand that's depressing the mechanism or there's an adjustment issue. Get it back to the dealers before you come a cropper, that's what they are there for no matter what some of them might think

I had this problem with mine as well, I took it to the garage (2 years ago) and they tuned the gearbox (that's what they told me) and it was fine until last weekend.

Leaving the supermarket, got into the car, started the engine, put it into 1st gear, accelerated and I hit the car behind me.... my first thought was something like "oh ****! I'm in reverse!!", so I release it, put it into 1st, accelerate... and I hit the car behind me again... tried one more time and guess what... I hit the car again. Only the 4th time I was able to move forward! :(

 

It was nothing special but both cars bumpers were scratched. My question is who's accountable for the damages?!

 

If you had this problem and you think you got it fixed... think again!

I fink after the second time I might have tried a different tactic and used second to pull forward and then did some checking in a less 'bumpy' environment.

I know it may be hard to know but when reverse gear is accidentally engaged and the driver has aimed for, and assumes has selected first do the reverse lights come on or is the whole car fooled (as in the above post about fooling the parking sensors). Sounds pretty dangerous and widespread/common, imagine if the car behind was actually a pedestrian. Skoda should be doing something about this.

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Hi all,

Just bought a MkIII Octavia vRS and love it. Got a permanent grin on my face! The only issue I've had is on about 5 occasions I've gone to put it in 1st gear as I pull away and its clunked into reverse!! As yet no accident but have nearly reversed into a wall and/or other cars!!

Is it just me or do others have this issue?

 

As reported by other users, it seems there is a problem with incorrect shifter cable adjustment on some Octavias.

Take it to the dealer & ask them to check it.

It will be a minor adjustment of the gear linkages/cables. Get it back to the dealers they will sort it.