Neutral Gear

[Pedro_Hilario]

Hi,

So i just let my dad borrow my polo and it came back with a problem:

You know when you have the car in neutral gear, the gearknob is supposed to stay between 3th and 4th gear, right in the middle. and if you shake it it will come back to that center position, right?

Well i guess my dad didn't get along with putting the reverse gear and he broke something, because now the gearknob in neutral wont go into that central position, it just shakes around and wont return to the original position.

My question is: what could be broken?

I hope you understand the problem since this is realy hard to explain in words (especially in a second language!)


Pedro

[Dunn]

I think that there is a spring that put the gear nob back to the center,

im really not sure tho

[Polo Paul]

The gear linkage could have broken. This is the series of metal bars that connects the gear stick to the gear box, if its warped or damaged you will be unable to select certain gears and sometimes none at all.

[Dunn]

The gear linkage could have broken. This is the series of metal bars that connects the gear stick to the gear box, if its warped or damaged you will be unable to select certain gears and sometimes none at all.

This is vary true, this happend to me once

[Pedro_Hilario]

But drove around with it and all gears work perfectly.

Only problem is that in neutral it doesn't stay centered. Maybe its that spring you talked about?


I'll have to take it to VW to have it checked, it seems

[skyline.99]

Sounds like a spring to me. The linkage is doubful if you can select and drive in every gear. Also, if you are concerned about the linkage check whether you have cable/rod type. If it uses cables its almost definitely not the linkage but some sort of spring. Not sure where that'd be though.