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Delphine
15-04-2008, 03:37 PM
Hi, Hope someone out there can help. I have a Seat Alhambra 1.9TDI x 4 . I have no drive from the gearbox. The connecting rods all seem to be doing there jobs, and the clutch pedal seems to operate ok, but I have no drive. The problem occured as I was driving, I was slowing down for a corner, and went to select 2nd gear and it would not go in, so I chose 3rd. Got around the corner, went to change down to 2nd again, it went in, but no gear was there. I went for 1st, and no gear again. Now I have no gears at all, although I can hear them engaging, they do nothing. The clutch was not slipping either. :1zhelp:

mad4rovers
16-04-2008, 10:52 PM
I have an 2003 1.9 tdi 130bhp, a few months ago I had a similar problem, after giving no hint of trouble I started the car and attempted to engage reverse, impossible, there was nothing there at all. I was able to allow the car to role back out of parking space and was able to put it in first and drive the short distance home changing gear as normal. Parked up for the night and worry about it tomorrow has always been my view!
Next morning got into the car started it up, into reverse no problem came out of my drive attempted to put it in first then nothing, I was able to move the gearstick between 1st, 2nd and reverse like stirring a cup of tea. I managed to drive to my local garage in 3rd & 4th, where they removed the gearbox and sent it off to a specialist gearbox engineers who discovered that a small rivet holding the gear selector forks had failed, bending the forks and resulting in an expensive rebuild(£650).
I had hoped that was the end of that but I now have a problem with an extremily heavy clutch, which the main dealer after investigation (£80) thinks may be related to a problem with the dual mass flywheel (which has already been changed following a manufacturers recall). When will it end?

:aargh4::aargh4::aargh4:

Delphine
17-04-2008, 03:19 PM
Thanks for that, I have since spoken to an Audi mec in London, he reckons it is a gearbox out job, as he says "Just to be on the safe side" I have been quoted 350 quid just to investigate.

Pauloz
21-04-2008, 08:31 AM
I have an 2003 1.9 tdi 130bhp, a few months ago I had a similar problem, after giving no hint of trouble I started the car and attempted to engage reverse, impossible, there was nothing there at all. I was able to allow the car to role back out of parking space and was able to put it in first and drive the short distance home changing gear as normal. Parked up for the night and worry about it tomorrow has always been my view!
Next morning got into the car started it up, into reverse no problem came out of my drive attempted to put it in first then nothing, I was able to move the gearstick between 1st, 2nd and reverse like stirring a cup of tea. I managed to drive to my local garage in 3rd & 4th, where they removed the gearbox and sent it off to a specialist gearbox engineers who discovered that a small rivet holding the gear selector forks had failed, bending the forks and resulting in an expensive rebuild(£650).
I had hoped that was the end of that but I now have a problem with an extremily heavy clutch, which the main dealer after investigation (£80) thinks may be related to a problem with the dual mass flywheel (which has already been changed following a manufacturers recall). When will it end?

:aargh4::aargh4::aargh4:

Difficult to see how a DMF could cause a heavy pedal bud. Normally a release bearing issue..... but the same amount of work to get to that anyway as its in the bell housing.