64 Facelift mk2 2.0cr, just under 60k, nice enough old bus but I find it difficult to drive smoothly sometimes with a bit of a notch when changing up to 2nd. You can alleviate it a bit by letting the stick centre itself in neutral then going for 2nd or double declutching or even just giving it a couple of seconds but all these things take time and annoy me a little bit. Curiously enough it doesn't do it from 3rd to 2nd like a weak synchro might. Seems to be better if you run it longer in 1st before changing up. Clutch feels really good, engages and disengages perfectly so I'm pretty sure that's not hanging on for a bit and causing it. Seems better on a nice, cold morning. If I didn't know any better, and I don't, I'd say the oil in the gearbox could be causing it? Anyone else have an issue like this? What did you do to fix it? Cheers guys and gals

Dean

Edited 22 November, 20187 yr by dean191

Hi Dean, I had a similar experience on my remapped Octavia 1.9 tdi, and a change of g'box oil improved things, in fact I had two changes  done in the 70k that I owned the car, sold it with 169k on the clock!

The new owner, my brother in law, has since had the car 2 years and it hasn't missed a beat and he wrecks cars!!!

A word of caution make sure it is VW spec oil, my indy used Ford spec oil and it was horrible, soon had that changed and all was good again.

 

A gearbox oil change may or may not improve things but it can't hurt. You can try resetting the linkages also.

 

Also from my experience you sometimes just get a crap gearbox and there is nothing you can really do about it. The gear change on my Superb has never been as good as any other VAG car I've owned which has been disappointing.

Cheers guys

I'll get my man to chuck a fresh bit of oil in there when it gets serviced next. At least then I know I've done something towards making it better! I've heard of tweaking the linkages but my local VW specialist hadn't even I took it for an (expensive) 'approved' service a few months ago? I'll take it to a proper mechanic next time! Not sure this car has ever had a proper mechanic work on it, it'll be a nice change! 

Thanks again lads