8v Manual gearbox

[Daveotto]

Good to hear your back in the driving seat Dave. Nice

Cheers, gonna to take its easy for a week or so but was itching to get back in the driving seat, the irony was that I drove to the physiotherapist

 

[MattSedg]

whether or not its been like this since I got it, or just recently come about, I don't know. Going into 3rd is notchy/very notchy, everything else is fine.

63 plate, 20k miles

 

[scoss]

Can someone define this "notchy" sensation? I have noticed that when going from neutral to 1st I sometimes get some hesitation and it feels like the stick has not fully travelled the whole way into 1st. It's like it's 2/3rds of the way there. Making me go back to neutral to try again. I've got no other issues with other gears. This issue is very intermittent though. Any ideas?

 

[GSB]

Sounds familiar. I've done 5000 miles in my loan S3 now, and the gearbox is generally ok, with intermittent doses of being a recalcitrant git that won't engage first, or reverse when I want it to, or gets third instead of first, or reverse instead of first (and viceversa).

As I said in another thread, it's ok, but by no means as good as some Japanese offerings. It's not enough to put me off ever having a manual at all (Tremec 6 speed would do that), but it's not one of the worlds greats.