Squirrelofdoom
Registered User
Hi guys,
Haven't been on in a while, just been enjoying the car However....(and to preface this, I haven't had any clutch/gearbox problems at all during my ownership).
Was pulling out of the garage this morning, and the car wouldn't go into gear - just a brick wall. Turned the car off, went into gear fine with the engine off. Turned on again, wouldn't go into reverse, 1st or 2nd.
So, started the car in reverse gear with my foot on the clutch and it lurched backwards and stalled. After that, I keyed on and off again and it was absolutely fine on the drive into work. I made sure to stop at lights a few times, even stopped at the petrol station on the way in - turned the car off and left it for a few minutes then came back to it - no problems at all. Car felt normal to drive too.
Could this jsut be a weird one off? I know I've had it before in other cars where the splines just wouldn't engage and I had to push the car a little just to get them to line up and it was fine...This time it wouldn't go in until I'd lurched the car backwards a few feet.
Feels like a bearing/rod got temporarily stuck and now it's fine? It was raining heavily last night and I had to traverse some fairly deep floods given the area I live...and I may not have taken a couple of them as slow as I should (thumbs up for car puddle jumping!!)
Any thoughts boys? The car is due a service and MOT and is going in soon anyway, should I ask them to pay special attention to clutch stuff or should I just write this off as a weird one-off?
Cheers,
Aran
Haven't been on in a while, just been enjoying the car However....(and to preface this, I haven't had any clutch/gearbox problems at all during my ownership).
Was pulling out of the garage this morning, and the car wouldn't go into gear - just a brick wall. Turned the car off, went into gear fine with the engine off. Turned on again, wouldn't go into reverse, 1st or 2nd.
So, started the car in reverse gear with my foot on the clutch and it lurched backwards and stalled. After that, I keyed on and off again and it was absolutely fine on the drive into work. I made sure to stop at lights a few times, even stopped at the petrol station on the way in - turned the car off and left it for a few minutes then came back to it - no problems at all. Car felt normal to drive too.
Could this jsut be a weird one off? I know I've had it before in other cars where the splines just wouldn't engage and I had to push the car a little just to get them to line up and it was fine...This time it wouldn't go in until I'd lurched the car backwards a few feet.
Feels like a bearing/rod got temporarily stuck and now it's fine? It was raining heavily last night and I had to traverse some fairly deep floods given the area I live...and I may not have taken a couple of them as slow as I should (thumbs up for car puddle jumping!!)
Any thoughts boys? The car is due a service and MOT and is going in soon anyway, should I ask them to pay special attention to clutch stuff or should I just write this off as a weird one-off?
Cheers,
Aran